Want more Nuggets news? Sign up for the Nuggets Insider to get all our NBA analysis.According to Malika Andrews of ESPN (and host of NBA Today), the Denver Nuggets have signed wing Bruce Brown to a two-year contract, effectively saving this season’s free agency period.īruce Brown has agreed to a 2-year, $13M+ deal with the Denver Nuggets, sources tell ESPN.Īccording to Mike Singer of the Denver Post, the second year of the deal is a player option, unsurprising for a player of Brown’s caliber.īrown, 25, has spent the last two seasons with the Brooklyn Nets as a glue guy for their superstars. Because they’re not going anywhere but Tinseltown, for a close-up that’s five decades overdue. “We play as a team, everybody touches the ball, everybody scores, everybody does everything,” Brown explained. Collectively, they’re an unreasonable, unshakable colossus. Murray can be ice cold for 25 minutes and a walking cheat code for the next 15. The Joker looks like Bryant “Big Country” Reeves but plays like Magic Johnson, an optical illusion in Nikes. From a distance, these Nuggets feel like a bunch of misfit toys. Even (though) maybe he’s smaller, he’s tough, he’s fighting. “Obviously, he can pick up the guys, he can guard multiple positions. “He’s (been) doing that since he came here, the whole year. “His defense, his energy, it’s not just (Game 2),” Jokic said of Brown, one of Nuggets exec Calvin Booth’s shrewdest off-season additions. During Game 1, he’d dropped 16 points and four boards on the Lake Show. by 16 whenever Brown was on the floor Thursday. “Do you feed off those individual matchups?” “Naw, it was just the team,” Brown replied. bench behind him to let ‘em know who’d just dropped the dagger.Ī reporter asked later, “Did (Lakers guard and former Nugget) Malik Beasley say something?” 11 set himself, knocked down a triple, then turned immediately to the L.A. With 3:04 left in the third quarter, and Denver trailing 74-67, the Nuggets’ do-everything wing waved his arms from the top left corner as Jokic came down with an offensive rebound. The Joker spotted his teammate and rainbowed the rock to a wide-open Brown. Woke me up a little bit,” Brown said of the trash talk he heard from the Lakers bench late Thursday. And like the rest of this team, throwing shade only makes him … stronger. They’re 3-0 when he drains more than one 3-pointer. The Nuggs are 8-0 this postseason when Brown puts up 12 points or more. He can block a shot, then lead the break the other way. He can bring the ball up, he can run the offense, he can bang with big men. and Caldwell-Pope got into early foul trouble in Game 2 against the Lakers, he kept the Nuggets afloat. Dude’s 6-foot-4, rugged as old leather, fearless as a honey badger. He’s listed as a small forward, but labels don’t really apply. Because on several levels, the man truly embodies what this Nuggets roster, this Nuggets apologue, is all about. The Nuggets are the dinner guests who won’t leave, the cool kids’ bad penny, a network executive’s worst nightmare, ornery and obstinate to the last.ĭenver renews cable television franchise with Comcast through 2028 to chagrin of sports fansīruce Brown, America. “But I think if you watch a lot of basketball, you know exactly who it is.” “I mean, if you don’t know (the Joker), I don’t know if you watch a lot of basketball or not,” Nuggets super sub Bruce Brown said after his 12 points off the bench helped Denver take a 2-0 series lead heading into Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals Saturday in Los Angeles. Lisa Salters wants them to point out to her which one Nikola Jokic is. Nick Wright wants them to go the (expletive) away. Kendrick Perkins wants them to go the (expletive) away. Know this, America: As good as they are, the Nuggets are twice as tough. “Let them keep watching, man,” Nuggets defensive ace Kentavious Caldwell-Pope said of an America that’s largely discovering this NBA monster for the first time now that it’s handed King James and the Lakers a two-game playoff losing skid. 1 seed in the West is, oh, the best team on that side of the bracket. Darvin Ham must be drawing up recipes on that white board instead of defensive sets. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
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