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Cancer is uglier than the devil after a bad night's sleep. But how the dreaded disease changed George Karl as a basketball coach was a gift from angels. How Karl saved the Nuggets' season and became the best coach in the NBA at age 59 was by coaching less. In the art of X's and O's, less of Karl is more. It's beautiful. All season long, Karl endured the tune-in-tomorrow soap opera of Carmelo Anthony. From the chaos of a trade with the New York Knicks, as Denver general manager Masai Ujuri claimed the Nuggets "got killed" in the deal, Karl patched together a 50-game winner. It has been like watching a man build Pikes Peak from pebbles. You drop in on a Denver practice these days, and the loudest noise is a basketball...
The only thing more surprising than the Nuggets forcing a Game 7 in this first-round series against the Lakers is the manner in which they have gotten the job done. Besides winning two elimination games, the Nuggets learned... more »
In the playoffs, you go get it. So one game after he'd disappointed himself and his team by not bringing full effort from the start, Andrew Bynum felt comfortable mocking the only thing worse in the playoffs: Backing down and... more »
The Lakers never dreamed it, but now they must live it, a worst-case scenario, a last-ditch situation, one game to save this misguided season against a Denver Nuggets team that should already be starting its summer. Shame... more »
In the NBA playoffs it's not necessarily about keeping players out of the paint or off the boards. It's about keeping them off the podium. When the postseason arrives and the numbers of media members increase, the key players... more »
efore the playoffs, I predicted that the Lakers would beat the Nuggets in seven games. And so while I’m not entirely surprised that the younger, deeper Nuggets have a chance to tie the first-round series at three games... more »
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