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#denver-nuggets

During the course of celebrating their first NBA championship in franchise history, the Denver Nuggets have made a habit of bringing up LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers, who they swept in the Western Conference Finals en route to the title.Ahead of their championship parade on Thursday, head coach Mike Malone went on ESPN and cracked jokes about retiring, a not-so-subtle shot at James' post-loss retirement comments.

Yesterday, the Denver Nuggets beat the Miami Heat, 94-89 in Game 5 of the 2023 NBA Finals to win their first-ever NBA championship.While the Washington Wizards didn't win the championship, some of the players and coaches on Denver's team once were in D.C. Let's take a look below:


Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (2021-22) - In Washington, KCP averaged 13.2 points per game in 77 appearances and shot 39 percent from the three point line (159-of-408 attempts).

For the third time in the last four seasons, Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler sat at the postgame podium and reflected on a magical playoff run that came up just short.The 33-year-old, whose Heat lost in five games to the Denver Nuggets in the NBA Finals, said Monday night that he believes the Heat can still win a championship.

Following a disappointing 40-42 season and prompt elimination in the play-in tournament, please excuse me if I join many other fans when I say I'm ready to put this year behind us and look forward to the future.The Chicago Bulls' options this summer may be limited, but at this point, standing pat and not making any moves in either direction would be an abject failure for the franchise.

Giuseppe Cottini/Getty Images Danilo Gallinari is staying with the Boston Celtics.The forward exercised the $6.8 million option on his contract for the 2023-24 season.ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski relayed the news from Gallinari's agent, Michael Tellem of Excel Sports Management, on Thursday.This will give Gallinari an opportunity to suit up for Boston for the first time after he signed with the team ahead of the 2022-23 campaign.

Celtics Brown attended Wakefield high school before transferring to Vermont Academy.Dorchester native and now NBA champion Bruce Brown will try to bring the Larry O'Brien Trophy on a visit to Boston.Following his victory in the NBA Finals with the Denver Nuggets on Monday night, Brown told The Boston Globe's Gary Washburn that he wants to bring the trophy home.

How should we grade coaches?Unlike players, their impact is a bit more nebulous.They don't actually step on the court and get buckets, as Dallas Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd said after a collapse in the fourth against the Lakers this past season."I'm not the savior here.I'm not playing.I'm watching, just like you guys."

Representatives of Conor McGregor have denied allegations the former UFC champion sexually assaulted a woman at a basketball match last week.The Irish mixed martial arts star has been accused of the assault in a bathroom at game four of the NBA Finals in Miami on June 9.A statement from McGregor's lawyer Barbara Llanes said: The allegations are false.

Representatives of Conor McGregor have denied allegations the former UFC champion sexually assaulted a woman at a basketball match last week.The Irish mixed martial arts star has been accused of the assault in a bathroom at game four of the NBA Finals in Miami on June 9.A statement from Mr McGregor's lawyer Barbara Llanes said: The allegations are false.

Hello, Denver.How ya doin', Vegas?You've come all the way to our place for the playoffs this week, and we hardly know each other.Let's fix that.The cynics in the media, of course, see only conflict: The Denver Nuggets taking on the Miami Heat at Kaseya Center in the NBA Finals on Wednesday and Friday, while the Las Vegas Golden Knights battle the Florida Panthers for the NHL championship at FLA Live Arena on Thursday and Saturday.

A good logo design for a sports team needs to accomplish a lot.It has to be simple enough to work across an array of merchandise, it needs to convey a team's history and, ideally it should please fans.Somehow the new Cleveland Browns logo has achieved that while packing in a whole kennel full of hidden references.

The Miami Heat's unprecedented run at one of the most unlikely championships in NBA history ultimately fell short at the hands of the Denver Nuggets.But what they accomplished over the last two months is going to feed the momentum for the team heading into the offseason.An offseason that could prove to be quite memorable for the Heat.

The mightiest Cinderella run in NBA history in the form of the Miami Heat in this year's playoffs had the perfect chance to seize control of the series following a road upset in Game 2. However, two consecutive stale performances by the team at home now leaves them gasping for survival as they face a 3-1 trek facing elimination against the Denver Nuggets, starting Monday night in Game 5.
Whereas the Nuggets enjoyed solid, across-the-board production from their role players in Game 4 following a star-reliant attack in the preceding game, the Heat's role players have continued to come down to earth.

The Miami Heat enter Friday night's pivotal Game 4 against the Denver Nuggets behind in a series for the first time this postseason, and their season is very much on the line.A loss would put the Heat into a 3-1 hole with Game 5 set for Denver, while a win would even the Finals and keep Miami's championship hopes alive.

In the Miami Heat's Game 3 loss to the Denver Nuggets, missed shots by Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo helped spring big nights by Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray.Down three in a closely played second quarter, Jimmy Butler cruised around a Kyle Lowry screen, got a step on Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and went into a classic Butler move - a drop step followed by a two-footed floater.

While the Miami Heat ultimately came up short in their heroic bid to land the franchise's fourth NBA title against the Denver Nuggets, they can still confidently look back at this season as a relative success all things considered.That being said, extending their championship window will require a lot of front office gymnastics to improve the roster.

Although Damian Lillard's top priority is to help build a championship-caliber roster with the Portland Trail Blazers, he said recently that if he were traded that the Miami Heat would be an appealing destination.During an interview with Showtime's The Last Stand, host Brian Custer asked Lillard which among the Heat, Knicks, Celtics and Nets would be the most ideal hypothetical trade destinations.

Jimmy Butler has long pushed back on the notion of "Playoff Jimmy," and he reemphasized that on Tuesday when asked about his modest scoring output during these NBA Finals."This Playoff Jimmy narrative is not a thing," Butler said."I'm not a scorer.I don't press to score.I only press to win."
Butler is averaging 17 points on 39.4% shooting through the first two games of the Miami Heat's Finals matchup against the Denver Nuggets and hasn't scored 30 points since Game 1 of the East finals.

Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler said he was "excited" for Lionel Messi's potential impact on the city following news that the Argentine World Cup winner would be signing for Major League Soccer club Inter Miami CF.Messi, 35, announced on Wednesday that he intended to join Inter Miami once his contract with French champions Paris Saint-Germain expires at the end of this month.

Now that it's been a few weeks since the Los Angeles Lakers' season ended in a hotly contested sweep to the Nuggets that was decided by a total of 24 points, we can take a closer look at the team's free agency decisions with a clearer lens devoid of what could have been.The player who may most benefit from that clearing of the lenses is D'Angelo Russell, who had a very, very poor series against the likely (and heavily favored, just don't tell Coach Mike Malone) champions Denver Nuggets.

Jun. 8-TODAY
Prospect League Baseball
Danville Dans at Lafayette Aviators, 6 p.m.
FRIDAY
Legion Baseball
Miami Valley Veterans Appreciation Tournament in Troy, Ohio: Circleville (Ohio) vs. Danville Post 210 Speakers, 3 p.m.
Miami Valley Veterans Appreciation Tournament in Troy, Ohio: Jefferson County vs. Danville Post 210 Speakers, 8 p.m.
Rantoul Gameday Tournament: Danville Post 210 Junior Speakers vs. TBD
Prospect League Baseball
Champion City Kings at Danville Dans, 6:30 p.m.
ON THE AIR
TODAY
College Softball
Women's College World Series finals, Game 2: Oklahoma vs.

Jun. 6-TODAY
Legion Baseball
Danville Post 210 Junior Speakers at Paris, 6 p.m.
Prospect League Baseball
Lafayette Aviators at Danville Dans, 6:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Legion Baseball
Danville Post 210 Junior Speakers at Rantoul, 6 p.m.
Terre Haute at Danville Post 210 Speakers, 6 p.m.
Prospect League Baseball
Danville Dans at Cape Catfish, 6:35 p.m.
ON THE AIR
TODAY
Major League Baseball
Chicago White Sox at New York Yankees, NBC Sports Chicago, 6 p.m.

With the insertion of artificial intelligence into search engines like Bing, Microsoft and other tech companies have drastically changed the way end users are expected to search for useful information on the internet.With Bing AI and chatbots expecting natural language search queries, users merely entering keywords into a box is no longer adequate input for achieving useful and actionable results.

The Miami Heat did what no other team has done this postseason and beat the Denver Nuggets at home in Game 2 of the NBA Finals on Sunday night to even the series at one game apiece.Now, Miami has a chance to flip the series in its favor at home, where it is 6-2 in the playoffs.The Heat are underdogs in the series and in Game 3, but that's been the case for this team all postseason.