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Nuggets Close to Extension on Karl, Want Nene, Smith Back

February 24, 2011   Chris Tomasson   No comments

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DENVER — Carmelo Anthony might be gone, but Nuggets coach George Karl is closing in on a contract extension.

Nuggets president Josh Kroenke said after Thursday night’s 89-75 win over Boston that negotiations are nearly complete on bringing Karl back for next season.

“We’re pretty close on that,” Kroenke said in an interview with FanHouse. “We’ve been doing that throughout the process and we just had to cut it off at times because we had to focus on Melo.”

The Nuggets started negotiations in December on bringing back Karl, in the last year of his contract. There were some delays due to trade talk regarding Carmelo Anthony, the star forward who was dealt Tuesday to New York.

“Hopefully, soon,” Kroenke said about when a deal on Karl will be announced. “George is somebody we want to keep here and, obviously, you can see him (Thursday), he does a great job with what he has. We’ll hopefully get something done. We want George here for a long time.”

Kroenke declined to speculate on the length of Karl’s contract extension, but sources previously have said three years is the expected number. FanHouse had reported last month Karl would return to the Nuggets next season, with Anthony being traded not being a factor.

 

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George Karl Resumes Recruiting Carmelo Anthony to Stay in Denver

January 21, 2011   Chris Tomasson   No comments

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George KarlDENVER — George Karl looks primed to get back into the Carmelo Anthony recruiting mode.

At the start of the season, the Nuggets coach talked with his star forward about why he should stay in Denver and at times looked to be working for the chamber of commerce. But with games piling up and trade talks heating up, Karl took a step back.

With a possible trade to New Jersey having fallen apart earlier this week and it not appearing Anthony will be dealt imminently, Karl wouldn’t mind returning to that role soon.

“If that can be worked into the program, I’d love to have that conversation,” Karl before Friday’s game against the Lakers at the Pepsi Center. “I’d love to have that conversation to talk to him about (staying in Denver). What I’d like to do is talk to all his people. I want to know who’s advising him on these other things.”

Karl said Anthony missed Friday morning’s shootaround due to personal reasons. But he had little doubt Anthony would play against the Lakers.

Karl said the timing now is difficult to talk to Anthony with the Nuggets playing Friday and Sunday and then leaving Monday on a five-game trip. But he’s already resumed his recruiting pitch through the media.

 

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Kevin Durant Scores NBA Season-High 44 as Thunder Top Nuggets

December 25, 2010   FanHouse Staff   No comments

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Kevin DurantKevin Durant made sure the first Christmas Day game in Oklahoma City Thunder history would be a memorable one.

Durant scored 44 points — 21 of them coming in the third quarter — to lead the Thunder to a 114-106 victory over the Denver Nuggets. The 44 points were an NBA season-high for Durant, who entered the game as the NBA‘s leading scorer at 27.5 points per game.

Durant’s third-quarter foray swung the momentum of the game after the Thunder surprisingly struggled to keep pace with the Nuggets in the first half, despite Denver playing without star forward Carmelo Anthony. The Thunder’s deficit reached double digits on multiple occasions.

But Durant and the Thunder came alive in the third, with the fourth-year forward at one point scoring 11 consecutive points for Oklahoma City in just under two-and-a-half minutes. His 19-foot jumper with 1:15 left in the quarter gave the Thunder the lead for good.

 

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Rudy Gay Suspended One Game; George Karl, Andre Miller Fined $25K Each

December 18, 2010   Chris Tomasson   No comments

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DENVER — Saturday is a day off for some, but not for NBA discipline czar Stu Jackson.

In separate rulings Saturday, the NBA suspended Memphis forward Rudy Gay for that evening’s game at San Antonio due to his flagrant foul twp against Houston’s Luis Scola on Friday, and fined Nuggets coach George Karl and Portland guard Andre Miller $25,000 each. Karl was fined for criticizing officiating after Thursday’s game against the Spurs and Miller for throwing the ball into the stands Wednesday against Dallas.

Gay will lose $123,670 in salary for his suspension. The incident occurred when Gay made contact with his right shoulder and forearm to the back of Scola midway through the fourth quarter of a 103-87 loss. He was ejected from the game (photo above).

Karl was fined after a 113-112 loss to the Spurs, a game in which a runner by Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony was waved off with four-tenths of a second remaining when Anthony was called for charging into Manu Ginoboli. Karl wasn’t that critical of the call, which he said could have gone “either way.” But Karl did say officials “like to hit us with tough calls,” and later further alleged a conspiracy regarding how officials treat the Nuggets, specifically center Nene.

 

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Nene Produces for Nuggets Despite Constant Whistles

December 17, 2010   Chris Tomasson   No comments

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DENVER — Nene is a nine-year NBA veteran. Sometimes he feels as if he’s a rookie.

Speaking after a tough 113-112 loss Thursday to San Antonio, Denver coach George Karl said he believes his center is being treated unfairly by officials. On Friday, Nene talked about how difficult it has been lately getting what he agrees have been unfair calls.

“It could be better, if they let me play,” Nene said in an interview with FanHouse about his recent play. “For sure, you saw the game (Thursday). So you know what I’m talking about.”

Karl said he believed three calls on Nene early in the third quarter against the Spurs were fouls that “don’t exist.” Karl said the same thing about some calls in other recent games against Nene, and that he “just doesn’t get a lot of respect” from officials.

“It’s not only the three fouls,” said Nene, agreeing with Karl, who said the Nuggets have sent film to the league office detailing calls that “don’t exist.” “It’s other games. The last five games, it’s been like that. It’s something that I can’t control. But that is frustrating. For sure, that’s frustrating.

“I just try to play hard. I can’t do nothing. I don’t want to be stupid to say something, the truth, to be fined. I don’t want to be fined because the truth hurts when you say it.”

 

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George Karl Frustrated With Officiating in Close Loss to Spurs

December 16, 2010   Chris Tomasson   No comments

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Carmelo Anthony, Manu GinobiliDENVER — Is there a officiating conspiracy against the Denver Nuggets?

George Karl seems to think so.

The Denver coach was upset at a last-second charging call on forward Carmelo Anthony, which cost the Nuggets in a 113-112 loss Thursday night to San Antonio at the Pepsi Center.

But even Karl said that play could have gone “either way.” More interesting was a distraught Karl talking about how Denver center Nene got three fouls in the third quarter that he believed were phantom and that the Nuggets regularly send in film to the NBA office of calls on Nene they don’t believe exist.

First, though, to the drama at the end of the game. After Spurs guard Manu Ginobili made a running banker with 4.2 seconds left for a 113-112 lead, the Nuggets inbounded. The ball eventually went to Anthony, who drove in against Ginobili.

Anthony made a runner with four-tenths of a second remaining. But the call on the floor was a charge on Anthony, and the Nuggets were done.

“No, obviously,” Anthony, who scored a game-high 31 points, said about whether he thought it was a charge. “What I think and what they called are two different things. I thought I made a great play … It’s tough, you know, just going out there playing as hard as we played out there and to lose the game on something like that, just tough.”

 

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George Karl Earns 1000th Career Win as Nuggets Beat Raptors

December 10, 2010   FanHouse Staff   No comments

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TORONTO (AP) — George Karl found peace and contentment in recording a coaching milestone.

Karl earned his 1,000th coaching victory, as Al Harrington scored a season-high 31 points and Nene added 26 to help the Denver Nuggets hold off the Toronto Raptors 123-116 on Friday night.

The seventh coach in NBA history with 1,000 wins, Karl also notched his 900th in Toronto, a 114-107 victory on Dec. 31, 2008. He shook hands with spectators as fans next to the Nuggets‘ bench bowed to him in the final seconds of the game. He was hugged by Denver’s players and assistant coaches at the final buzzer.

After doing radio and television interviews on the court, Karl shared a moment of “peacefulness and contentment” with his team inside the locker room.

“I just felt together with them, I felt connected with them,” Karl said. “A lot of times during an NBA season, the coach and players aren’t really connected, they’re fighting a lot. This was a moment, not only on the court but in the locker room afterwards, there was a great connection.”

Chauncey Billups called it “a moment that you’ll never forget.”

 

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Nuggets vs. Suns: Phoenix Comes From 15 Down to Spoil Carmelo’s Career Night

November 15, 2010   Brett Pollakoff   No comments

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PHOENIX — The Nuggets had the luxury of three days’ rest, while the Suns were playing on the second night of a back-to-back, coming off of a victory over the Lakers in Los Angeles on Sunday. Yet Phoenix was the energized team in the fourth quarter, and used a 14-1 run to come from behind to beat Denver by a final of 100-94.

Carmelo Anthony pulled down a career-high 22 rebounds in the losing effort, one where his team managed just a single assist over the entire second half. George Karl largely blamed this particular statistic for his team’s collapse.

“How about one (assist) in the second half,” Karl said. “Why don’t you put that on the board? That should be the headline. Pass the damn ball, trust the pass, and play together.”

1st Quarter: Denver 22, Phoenix 20

Sunday night against the Lakers, Phoenix hit 22 three-pointers, one shy of the NBA record. They tried to continue the hot shooting from downtown early in this one, but with decidedly different results: the Suns finished the first quarter 0 for 6 from three-point land, and just 7 for 26 from the field overall, for a dismal shooting percentage of just 26.7 percent.

On the Nuggets’ side, things weren’t much better. Denver made three more buckets than the Suns did, but the team was also 0-fer from three, missing all four attempts.

Carmelo Anthony looked a little out of it from the start, committing four turnovers and going just 1-for-5 from the field. He wasn’t taking it too seriously, however, flipping the ball to a courtside fan after fumbling a rebound out of bounds. Anthony was effective on the glass, though, and pulled down six first-quarter rebounds.

Al Harrington led the Nuggets with seven points off the bench, getting the call just four minutes in after Nene went to the bench after picking up two early fouls.

Channing Frye, getting the start for the injured Robin Lopez, was largely ineffective, and managed just two points and a single rebound in 10 minutes, while going 0 for 3 from three-point range.

Denver Nuggets 94, Phoenix Suns 100: Recap | Box Score

 

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Gary Forbes Impresses in Surprise Start for Nuggets

November 03, 2010   Chris Tomasson   No comments

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Gary ForbesDENVER — Dirk Nowitzki has seen a lot of basketball. Entering Wednesday, he had played in 923 career NBA games.

He had no clue who the guy guarding him was at the start of his 924th game.

“I actually did not… I had not (ever heard of Forbes),” said the Dallas forward.

The 13-year veteran wasn’t alone. Mavericks center Tyson Chandler also had zero knowledge of the guy wearing No. 0 and starting at forward for the Denver Nuggets at the Pepsi Center.

“I didn’t know who he was before the game and, for a while, when he kept hitting jump shots, I was trying to figure out who he was,” Chandler said.

The no-name guy is Gary Forbes, a 6-foot-7 undrafted rookie forward who played in just his third NBA game. Forbes, 25, who got out of Massachusetts in 2008, spent two years banging around the NBA D-League and in Italy and Israel before making the Nuggets on a non-guaranteed contract.

“I think they were surprised to see Gary out there,” Nuggets forward Carmelo Anthony said of the Mavericks. “I was surprised to see Gary.”

 

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Carmelo Anthony Ignoring Trade Rumors, May Help at Power Forward

October 20, 2010   Chris Tomasson   No comments

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Carmelo AnthonyDENVER — Carmelo Anthony doesn’t mind the trade rumors. He does mind playing power forward.

Nevertheless, Anthony, Denver’s starting small forward, is resigned to having to slide over and battle big men more often with Nuggets power forwards Kenyon Martin and Chris Andersen out with knee injuries to start the season.

“I try to stay away from that position as much as possible,” Anthony said after practice Wednesday. “I like to save my body. But, if that’s what it comes down to, I’ll have to play some. We’ll make it work. I’m pretty sure right now George (Karl, the Nuggets’ coach) got a trick up his sleeve, when the games get tight, to put me at the power-forward position.”

That is, if Anthony is with Denver long enough for that happen.

Trade rumors continue to swirl around Anthony, who has not signed a three-year, $64.47 million contract extension offer that is on the table and who can opt out of his contract next summer and become a free agent.

Anthony, though, did tell FanHouse on Tuesday he hasn’t ruled out re-signing with the Nuggets and that he expects to still be with them for next Wednesday’s regular-season opener against Utah.

On the court, the trade rumors seemingly aren’t affecting Anthony, whose 23.5 preseason scoring average is second in the NBA.

 

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