To happier times.
Windows don’t slam shut with Nikola Jokic, Nathan MacKinnon, Jamal Murray and Cale Makar in the fold.
We’ll be back for another parade or four in the next few years.
#NBAplayoffs
#GoAvsGo
One of the coolest things I’ve ever witnessed. Broncos QB Russell Wilson throws a perfect strike to Kris Bryant in front of a raucous Coors Field crowd. Chills.
Not only is Nikola Jokic the greatest Nugget of all-time (and it's not close), he's pushing Elway and Sakic for greatest athlete in Denver sports history. Congrats, Joker! 🐐🃏
Charles Barkley going off on the NBA for starting Nuggets / Wolves so late...
"It ain't fair to the people in Denver to be playing at 8:30 at night. They've got to go to school tomorrow."
Here's the deal: If the cap space the Avs would've used on Kuemper means they can re-sign Kadri AND Nichushkin, then this is a home run move by Joe Sakic. I like a Georgiev / Francouz combo in net.
#GoAvsGo
You can't defend George Paton at this point. Even if some smaller decisions have been good, his biggest ones have been massive failures:
1) Hiring Hackett
2) Trading for Russ
3) Giving Russ $245M
He's set this franchise back years.
#BroncosCountry
Woj on Jamal Murray: "The decision for Jamal Murray to play in these playoffs... It rests with Jamal Murray. He's been cleared by the doctors. But the organization has left it in his hands." 🤔🤔🤔
The fact Mark Jackson could call Nikola Jokic's games in the Western Conference Finals and NBA Finals feels like a borderline conflict of interest. He obviously has an extreme personal bias against him and won't accurately and fairly describe the game to fans.
#MileHighBasketball
PSA: If you have any inkling to "root" for the Avs to lose so there's a Game 5 in Denver, get that out of your mind. The Lightning are the two-time defending champions. Don't give them any life. Go for the throat. 🧹🧹🧹🧹
#GoAvsGo
So Melvin Gordon can go like a bunch of tweets saying he wants to be traded, and his head coach will start him six days later? Who's the boss here? This is a new low for Hackett.
"Tonight the Colorado Rockies traded away the single best reason to care, at all, about the Colorado Rockies. The Rockies did not just trade away their All-Star, Gold Glover, future Hall of Famer, they paid the Cardinals to take him." -
@KyleClark
off the top rope 📺
#9sports
- The Eagles choked
- The Phillies choked
- The Flyers are falling apart
- The 76ers star stat padder won’t suit up on the road
Imagine being a Philadelphia sports fan trying to dunk on Denver.
The jokes will fly about the Rockies tonight as they're trending. But I'm so sad for real baseball fans in this town. Dick Monfort has to sell this team NOW if he has a heart. We are all mortified.
I am laughing so hard at these uneducated Seattle fans thinking Cale Makar is some sort of villain. Learn the game. Literally one of the most respectful athletes I've ever met.
#GoAvsGo
If you had showed me this photo five years ago after the Avalanche finished dead last in the NHL with 48 points, I wouldn't have believed you. What a team. What a ride.
“I’m telling you, there’s growing resentment in that building about that guy. I’m going to leave it at that.”
Direct quote from a franchise legend who spent last weekend at the team’s facility and in Denver 🤔🧐
Sure it's been suggested by others, but the city of Denver should start an active campaign to host the MLB All-Star Game. It's been 23 years and Coors Field is the best ballpark in baseball.
#9sports
#Rockies
It’s wild to me so many Broncos fans are vehemently opposed to pursuing Christian McCaffrey. Carolina is looking to dump the salary, not for crazy compensation. Denver’s offense definitely needs a big spark and CMC could provide it. Plus, the Broncos have significant cap space 🤔
John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan are going to their third Final Four in the last four years. They both have strong Denver ties. And the Broncos picked Vance Joseph / Vic Fangio / George Paton. Brutal.
#BroncosCountry
What Nazem Kadri did in St. Louis, scoring a hat trick in a playoff game after needing a police escort to enter the building, is unreal. His OT winner in Tampa Bay is a goal I'll never forget. I firmly believe the Avs don't win the Stanley Cup without him. Thanks for everything.
Fun fact of the day: Carmelo Anthony won 16 playoff games in Denver in 6+ years.
Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray have won 16 playoff games in 17 months.
#9sports
#MileHighBasketball
"Christian won us Game 3. Aaron Gordon and Bruce won us Game 4. We believe in them, and probably next game is gonna be somebody else is gonna step up. We believe in every player that we have."
Nikola Jokic just gave that answer to
@notthefakeSVP
The most HUMBLE star on Earth 🐐
Broncos are 5-14 since trading for Russell Wilson and George Paton giving him a $245M deal.
Five wins:
HOU (16-9, fans counted down play clock)
SF (11-10, game was universally mocked)
JAX (21-17, London at 7:30 a.m.)
AZ (24-15, Wilson didn't play)
LAC (31-28, Jerry Rosburg HC)
The Nuggets best run of the Jokic era came without Will Barton in the bubble. Barton tried to fight Boogie in a playoff game this year. Denver was 1-9 its last 10 postseason contests with Barton on the floor. These are all facts.
#MileHighBasketball
Watching this on repeat tonight. Murray grabs the basketball clean on the biggest possession of his life & Gordon gets a fingertip on it to seal the deal.
Fitting a defensive play against an all-time great sends the Nuggets to their first NBA Finals 🤩
The Chiefs are 9-6. This was the year to get the AFC West back.
And yet the Broncos lost at home to the Raiders, Commanders, Jets and Patriots.
Not cool.
#BroncosCountry
@PetersenWill
Yea it’s so great being a Denver fan. You have ONE TEAM,which barely beat our bench btw. So keep on sticking your chest out with you basketball team that has one title. But don’t forget to keep rooting on the shitty Rockies and awful Broncos and pray you don’t see us in NBA Final
Broncos Justin Simmons (
@jsimms1119
) today in FL:
"I currently play in the NFL but that is not who I am...I am a bi-racial human being. My dad is black, my mom is white, I understand the pain both sides are dealing with...I am here for equality."
#9sports
This gets cringier to watch by the moment. Sean Payton slung arrows on FOX, saying Tua should be benched. He hired Vance Joseph. He had a couple lattes and ripped Hackett. He opened himself up in the Wickersham article. He is the leader of a dumpster fire
To recap…
George Paton hired maybe the worst head coach in NFL history, made maybe the worst trade in NFL history, gave out maybe the worst contract in NFL history and just took on a $53M dead cap hit.
And he’s still the GM of the Denver Broncos.
It's absolutely unfortunate the majority of Denver can't watch the Avalanche right now. This team is just unbelievable. Another 4-1 win today.
#9sports
#GoAvsGo
A few are tough to tell, but looks like John Elway, Nathan MacKinnon, Erik Johnson, Mark Schlereth, Chauncey Billups, Ed McCaffrey, Peyton Manning, Scott Hastings, Terrell Davis, Mike Shanahan, Andrew Whitworth and Brandon Stokley played golf together today. Wow!
Philipp Grubauer would have a ring if he played like this in 2021. Absolutely brutal he choked for the Avalanche and then goes and does something like this.
#GoAvsGo
"I don't understand why (Jokic) got a technical... If that had been a regular fan, he would've gotten tossed," - Charles Barkley spitting facts.
Matt Ishbia wins 🤡 of the month award.
#MileHighBasketball
There’s some chatter about Nuggets fans being “obnoxious” in their victory laps. After the disrespect the Nuggets got all year, against Phoenix and now in this series, I think the victory laps should be as jubilant as possible. The fanbase has earned that.
#MileHighBasketball
If Courtland Sutton doesn't want to be here, the Broncos can't Randy Gregory him soon enough. That route was lazy, and almost resulted in a pick-six.
#BroncosCountry
Tim Legler being on this call is a refreshing change of pace. He cancels out some of the noise and is the first analyst actually giving the Nuggets their due (when it’s deserved).
#NBAPlayoffs
As Peyton Manning officially enters the Hall of Fame tonight I think it's important we reflect on how cool it is that A) He came to the Broncos B) Led them to two Super Bowls and one win and C) Still calls Denver home and truly feels like a Bronco for life
#9sports
Broncos Country, and frankly the whole NFL, is pulling for Bills Mafia. Someone please make Patrick Mahomes play a road playoff game, and someone please knock the Chiefs out before the AFC Championship Game 🙏🏼
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the Avalanche and Nuggets haven't been both Round 2 bound since the COVID bubble. And it was a long time before that. A special time to be a sports fan in Denver.
#GoAvsGo
#NBAPlayoffs
If you cut Russell Wilson, you have to fire George Paton. Frankly, Paton should've been fired after hiring Nathaniel Hackett. Greg Penner's been a good owner, but that was a huge mistake.
#BroncosCountry
I would've loved to see just one person on that panel say the Nuggets would have won 20-25 games without Jokic. Because that's the truth. And that is the definition of valuable.
I tried to tell anyone that would listen: losing Ejiro Evero was a major blow to the Broncos. Many dismissed it, saying he was Hackett's buddy and had to go. I bet those folks wish he was still the DC. This defense has taken a massive step back.
#BroncosCountry
"Jokic is having one of the greatest individual seasons in NBA history, that is not a hyperbole... When he's on the court they're as good as any team in basketball... Currently he sits at No. 1 all-time in player efficiency rating"
@jj_redick
raving about the MVP on
@SportsCenter