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NBA Rumors – Denver Nuggets, Brooklyn Nets & Phoenix Suns Talking Trades With the Toronto Raptors
One of the more aggressive teams in a rather tranquil trade deadline period are the Toronto Raptors, eagerly seeking an upgrade at power forward, with feelers out in every direction: The Brooklyn Nets and Thaddeus Young, Phoenix Suns with Markieff Morris or P.J. Tucker and the Denver Nuggets with Kenneth Faried.
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NBA Rumors – Sacramento Kings Don’t Want to Trade DeMarcus Cousins; George Karl Does
The drama over the potential trade of DeMarcus Cousins continues. It seems that George Karl is the only member of the Sacramento Kings staff, management and ownership who has any interest in making the deal. The Los Angeles Lakers? Denver Nuggets? The people who should be making the decision don’t even want to trade him, so what’s all the fuss about?
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Team USA – Kenneth Faried Close to Unstoppable So Far
The difference between Team USA and their opponents so far in the Basketball World Cup has been the size and quality of their big men, with Kenneth Faried almost surprisingly standing out yet again, this time in a 106-71 win over the Dominican Republic to make it a perfect four-for-four in the group stage.
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Team USA – Anthony Davis & Kenneth Faried Make Everything Look Easy
As expected, the USA basketball team are now up to 3-0 in the Basketball World Cup, beating New Zealand 98-71, once again led by the devastating inside duo of Anthony Davis and Kenneth Faried, standing out ahead of the rest for a third consecutive game.
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Team USA Over Turkey – Things Start to Get Complicated
If Team USA needed some sort of warning that this World Cup wasn’t going to be walk in the park came their tough game against Turkey which they did win 98-77, led by Anthony Davis and Kenneth Faried, but showed worrying signs that they might not be as good as they see themselves.
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Golden State Warriors – It’s All Falling Apart
It’s hard to see the Golden State Warriors not making the postseason despite their disappointing form of late, but Kenneth Faried hitting a game winner and cancelling out what would have been one by Stephen Curry led the Denver Nuggets to a 100-99 win and plenty of worries for a team that had bigger expectations than struggling to clinch a playoff spot.
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Los Angeles Clippers – A Reason to be Concerned
Every loss happens for a reason, and even though the Los Angeles Clippers did win 11 games in a row, their 110-100 defeat after an awful performance from Blake Griffin and the rest of the team on both ends of the floor, Doc Rivers has some things to figure out before we look at the Clippers as championship contenders again.
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Miami Heat – It’s Officially a Crisis
In a long NBA season, there always seems to be time to fix things. But the Miami Heat are in the last stretch of this one, with the playoffs looming around the corner. A fifth loss in six games, this time to the pretty bad Denver Nuggets, shows us all there are quite a few problems with the defending NBA champions, maybe even too much to fix in time for the more serious battles.
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NBA Rumors – New York Knicks & Denver Nuggets Interested in Iman Shumpert & Kenneth Faried Trade
The New York Knicks are desperate to make a move before the trading deadline, rekindling their efforts to get Kenneth Faried from the Denver Nuggets while using Iman Shumpert as their bait. It didn’t work the first time they’ve tried it, so what has changed?
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Denver Nuggets – Randy Foye Keeps Pulling Off Clutch Heroics
There are a lot of things that have stopped Randy Foye from being anything more than a fringe starting player in the NBA, but it’s hard to take away from him that special something he has when the game is on the line, showing it once again with a buzzer-beating game winning shot to lift the Denver Nuggets over the Los Angeles Clippers.