Give Mike Evans a sledgehammer.
The Denver Nuggets' interim head coach could use one.
As the Nuggets sift through the rubble they created in December, Evans has, perhaps, the most arduous task in the organization.
"That's tough for anyone to step in in the middle of a season," injured Nuggets forward Antonio McDyess said. "Things were already down, and you try to step in and turn it around.
"It's kind of like the concrete has already been laid."
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Monday, December 31, 2001 - Anyone who has watched Los Angeles Lakers center Shaquille O'Neal pound his way on the basketball court might have difficulty finding the beauty in the NBA's game.
However, Stu Jackson, the NBA's senior vice president of basketball operations, contends some rule changes for the 2001-02 season have made it "a more open and prettier game."
Jackson especially is pleased that a change in rules that allows for zone defense basically has eliminated the one-on-one isolation play. When zone defenses were illegal, teams would clear a side of the court so that a dominant player could work one on one against a single defender. The other eight players stood and watched, defenders glued to the player they were guarding in order to avert an illegal defense call.
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Glenn Rogers says that Pat Riley needs to forget the notion that the Heat might get back in the playoff hunt, that Larry Brown took another jab at Iverson, that Krause denies there was a power struggle between him and Floyd, that Lucas claims he'd be the best point guard ever if it weren't for drugs, and that Dan Issel got a severance package worth close to the $5 million he was scheduled to be paid this season and next.
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Nuggets Dec 2001 Archive
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| Dec 30, 2001
PHOENIX -- John Wallace scored 15 of his season-high 23 points in the second quarter and Penny Hardaway finished with a triple-double to lead the Phoenix Suns to a 109-92 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Saturday night.
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| Dec 30, 2001
John Wallace doesn't get a lot of opportunities to play for the Phoenix Suns.
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| Dec 30, 2001
Sunday, December 30, 2001 - PHOENIX - Finding an inside presence, figuring out ways to overcome a lack of size and improving defensively are among the myriad issues Denver Nuggets interim coach Mike Evans must tackle.
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| Dec 30, 2001
Sunday, December 30, 2001 - PHOENIX - If the Denver Nuggets add another assistant coach, former NBA great Clyde Drexler would love to get consideration for the job.
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| Dec 30, 2001
Sunday, December 30, 2001 - Larry Brown, once the area's pro basketball guru when he coached the Denver Nuggets, has a formula on how Mike Evans can be a successful interim coach: win.
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| Dec 30, 2001
Sunday, December 30, 2001 - One of my biggest fears for some time now is making one big mistake that will ruin everything I've worked for in my life.
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| Dec 30, 2001
Don Chaney, Brian Winters and Mike Evans each have been given an unexpected opportunity this season.
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| Dec 29, 2001
Many of you are not going to like this, and whether it's true won't be the issue.
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| Dec 29, 2001
Dan Issel was not afraid to change his mind.
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| Dec 29, 2001
Peter Vecsey and his infallible sources say that Larry Brown may be headed to Denver.
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| Dec 29, 2001
George McCloud took one for the team Friday night.
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| Dec 29, 2001
DENVER The mighty-mite scorers on both sides, Allen Iverson and Nick Van Exel, rang up their points Friday night at the Pepsi Center.
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| Dec 29, 2001
Sunday, December 30, 2001 - No Denver Nuggets player got hurt.
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| Dec 28, 2001
Reluctantly, I shall be closing the offices of the International Dan Issel Over Time Society (IDIOTS), since our primary IDIOT, the aforementioned and titular icon Dan Issel, has exhibited less faith in himself than those of us dedicated to forever keeping him a Nugget and general community nuisance.
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| Dec 28, 2001
Friday, December 28, 2001 - With many season-ticket holders watching the Denver Nuggets' practice Thursday afternoon, the team's new leader calmly strolled onto the Pepsi Center floor to a warm round of applause.
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| Dec 28, 2001
Rockets center Kevin Willis did not leave Denver on good terms with then-Nuggets president and coach Dan Issel.
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| Dec 28, 2001
Add one more category to the list of year-end awards: Dumbest remark by a person who should know better.
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| Dec 28, 2001
With all the bad news that has been surrounding the Denver Nuggets lately, with resignations to trade demands, we thought we'd give the Nuggets faithful a taste of the positive for a change.
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| Dec 28, 2001
Before we begin we had better get the official business over with.
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| Dec 27, 2001
Dan Issel resigned as Denver Nuggets coach yesterday.
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| Dec 27, 2001
There are those who will say Dan Issel is paying too high a price for his abusive comments of Dec.
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| Dec 27, 2001
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," George Santayana said, and although I am not certain he was coach of the Denver Nuggets at the time, I wouldn't be surprised.
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| Dec 27, 2001
Kiki Vandewegehe's career as Dan Issel's spokesman was brief and eventful.
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| Dec 27, 2001
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| Dec 27, 2001
Thursday, December 27, 2001 - Told before Wednesday night's game that their embattled coach had resigned, the Denver Nuggets weren't surprised.
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| Dec 27, 2001
Thursday, December 27, 2001 - The Denver Nuggets are Cimmerians who dwell in a land, Homer described, of perpetual darkness and gloom.
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| Dec 27, 2001
Not many Denver writers have had kind words for Dan Issel these days but one Denver Post editorial puts forward the view that Issel was just a man out of his time.
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| Dec 27, 2001
Thursday, December 27, 2001 - With the Denver Nuggets' coaching turmoil ended by the resignation of Dan Issel and the naming of Mike Evans as interim head coach, attention returned to the playing floor.
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| Dec 27, 2001
Thursday, December 27, 2001 - At first, it seemed the biggest question for the Denver Nuggets would be whether coach Dan Issel still could command the respect of his players after returning from a four-game suspension for shouting an ethnically insensitive remark to a taunting fan.
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| Dec 27, 2001
AUDIO
- Nuggets general manager Kiki Vandeweghe meets with media to discuss Dan Issel's resignation
Wednesday, the Nuggets' coach and president accepted a buyout from the team and left without saying a word.
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| Dec 27, 2001
Timberwolves coach Flip Saunders has one piece of advice for Denver Nuggets interim coach Mike Evans: Be true to yourself.
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| Dec 27, 2001
It happens on Broadway all the time.
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| Dec 26, 2001
Issel Accepts Package
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| Dec 26, 2001
Wednesday, December 26, 2001 - If Mike Evans is going to coach the Denver Nuggets the rest of the season, he had not been told that by Tuesday evening.
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| Dec 26, 2001
Dan Issel, as RealGM and several other sources announced on December 24, will make his resignation official this morning, making an official announcement after a meeting with Denver GM Kiki Vandeweghe reports Michael BeDan of the Rocky Mountain News.
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| Dec 25, 2001
Marc Stein of the Dallas Morning News speculates that Clyde Drexler will be the next coach of the Denver Nuggets.
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| Dec 24, 2001
Hispanic community that had mostly forgiven Denver Nuggets coach Dan Issel for an ethnically explicit insult Dec.
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| Dec 24, 2001
Denver Nuggets coach and president Dan Issel will resign, possibly as soon as today, several NBA sources confirmed.
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| Dec 24, 2001
Monday, December 24, 2001 - While reports of Dan Issel's imminent departure were swirling Sunday night, the Denver Nuggets' head coach denied he had accepted a buyout that would have him step down as coach.
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| Dec 24, 2001
Merry Christmas! I quit!
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| Dec 23, 2001
Woody Paige of the Denver Post argues that Dan Issel should just pack it in.
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| Dec 23, 2001
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| Dec 22, 2001
Issel takes leave of absence
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| Dec 22, 2001
SAN ANTONIO -- If there is light at the end of the tunnel, it probably will be produced by flashbulbs.
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| Dec 22, 2001
SAN ANTONIO Unbeaten in December, the San Antonio Spurs are the NBA's hottest team.
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| Dec 22, 2001
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| Dec 22, 2001
With 14 points and five steals, Parker paced the Spurs as they crushed Denver 109-74 to win their 10th straight game in front of 22,831 at the Alamodome.
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| Dec 21, 2001
A victory over Denver tonight would extend their streak to 10 games, the longest in the NBA this season and the team's longest in six seasons.
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| Dec 21, 2001
http://www.
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| Dec 21, 2001
They were labeled once as "stiffs" and "no-hopers" by former Denver Nuggets coach Doug Moe.
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| Dec 21, 2001
Friday, December 21, 2001 - Now that Denver Nuggets assistant Mike Evans has had a taste of what it's like to be an NBA head coach, he has an even stronger desire to have the job on a full-time basis.
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| Dec 21, 2001
Friday, December 21, 2001 - Johnson hit the clinching jumper that netted the Spurs their lone NBA title, in 1999.
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| Dec 21, 2001
Friday, December 21, 2001 - Eleven days away from the sideline will have passed when Dan Issel returns to coach the Denver Nuggets again Saturday night.
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| Dec 20, 2001
Dan Issel has apologized -- again.
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| Dec 20, 2001
http://www.
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| Dec 20, 2001
Thursday, December 20, 2001 - The right foot slides a half-step ahead of the left.
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| Dec 20, 2001
Thursday, December 20, 2001 - Latino leaders say they forgive Dan Issel, but they won't be forgetting any time soon.
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| Dec 19, 2001
Daniels scored 10 of his 16 points in the fourth quarter as he and the rest of the Spurs' second unit helped Tim Duncan pull out a 102-93 victory over Johnson and the Denver Nuggets.
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| Dec 19, 2001
DENVER The Denver Nuggets in the Mike Evans interim coaching era could not cool down one of the hottest teams in the National Basketball Association Tuesday night.
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| Dec 19, 2001
Wednesday, December 19, 2001 - The feeling is mutual between Denver Nuggets guard Nick Van Exel and fans across the country who are casting their votes for the 2002 All-Star Game.
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| Dec 19, 2001
Wednesday, December 19, 2001 - Nuggets coach Dan Issel will make a public apology to the Mexican community Wednesday at Luna's restaurant in north Denver.
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| Dec 19, 2001
Wednesday, December 19, 2001 - Even legendary coaches such as Vince Lombardi, Casey Stengel, Red Auerbach and Eddie Robinson lost once in a while.
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| Dec 19, 2001
No offense to Dan Issel, but Dikembe Mutombo does not want to play for the Denver Nuggets again.
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| Dec 18, 2001
The Little General may now be charged with motivating teammates in Denver, but for seven years he used his unforgettable Southern-fried twang and fiery personality to charm San Antonio and muscle the Spurs into playoff shape.
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| Dec 18, 2001
Dan Issel spoke softly Monday afternoon as cameras and tape recorders devoured his every word.
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| Dec 18, 2001
With all the insightful discussion about whether Dan Issel should be fired -- and certainly, you couldn't pick a group better qualified to decide your fate than newspaper and radio people -- here's a salient point you might have missed: Far from shortening his tenure as coach of the Denver Nuggets, Issel's eruption at a fan last week might have lengthened it.
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| Dec 18, 2001
DENVER Dan Issel admitted Monday that he'll have to live with a certain stigma for the rest of his life in the wake of his racially charged comments to a heckler last week, but the coach denied that he was considering resigning from his job with the Denver Nuggets.
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| Dec 18, 2001
Tuesday, December 18, 2001 - Maybe Avery Johnson will feel differently Friday when he plays at San Antonio for the first time since his departure.
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| Dec 18, 2001
Tuesday, December 18, 2001 - With renewed enthusiasm and vowing to remain coach of the Denver Nuggets, Dan Issel made his first in-depth comments since being suspended last week.
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| Dec 18, 2001
In New York, Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy walked away from his job and $7million because he no longer had the focus he said his team deserves.
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| Dec 18, 2001
Deke returns to Denver?
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| Dec 17, 2001
Dan Issel isn't likely to find solace at the Pepsi Center today.
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| Dec 17, 2001
Three down?
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| Dec 17, 2001
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| Dec 17, 2001
I just can't muster up enough anger to demand that Dan Issel be hung by his heels from Pepsi Center rafters and flailed like -- dare I say it? -- a Christmas pinata.
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| Dec 17, 2001
DENVER The Admiral is coming to town.
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| Dec 17, 2001
Monday, December 17, 2001 - Antonio McDyess' sculpted arms make him look more prepared for a Mr.
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| Dec 16, 2001
Locker room visitors are common in professional sports.
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| Dec 16, 2001
Sunday, December 16, 2001 - Denver Nuggets coach Mike Evans saw something refreshing at the end of an exhausting week.
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| Dec 16, 2001
Given my normally peaceful nature, and the fact that Christmas is right around the corner, generally I wouldn't want to kick a man when he is down.
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| Dec 16, 2001
Dan Issel plans to make a public apology to Denver's Latino community for racially offensive remarks directed at a heckler last week in Denver.
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| Dec 16, 2001
The national anthem had just been performed and Seattle's KeyArena was as quiet as a building can be when it's filled with antsy basketball fans.
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| Dec 16, 2001
So, the Denver Nuggets won't fire their coach for making an ethnic slur.
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| Dec 16, 2001
Bob Young writes in the Arizona Republic that the Suns are only too familiar with how much Antonio McDyess has struggled with his career decisions.
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| Dec 16, 2001
The Memphis Commercial-Appeal's Ron Tillery has been in Seattle and is now in Memphis.
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| Dec 15, 2001
When Denver point guard Nick Van Exel surfaced in trade rumors more than a week ago, Nuggets power forward Antonio McDyess saw a bleak future.
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| Dec 15, 2001
Dan Issel made a brief appearance at the Denver Nuggets' practice Friday afternoon.
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| Dec 15, 2001
Sunday, December 16, 2001 - Denver Nuggets coach Dan Issel made a brief and, by all accounts, wrenching apology to Denver's Latino leaders Friday.
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| Dec 15, 2001
The Denver Post has a good article about the tensions between coachs and players in the pressure-packed NBA.
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| Dec 15, 2001
There's a line in The Hotel New Hampshire, a novel by John Irving, about the willpower it takes just to keep passing the open windows when life is at its oppressive and depressing worst.
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| Dec 14, 2001
included a lengthy heat-of-battle defense, a good try on the surface.
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| Dec 14, 2001
As a curator of the sports apology, I would rate Dan Issel's among the best I've seen.
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| Dec 14, 2001
would have fired him.
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| Dec 14, 2001
DENVER Dan Issel wasn't allowed to be in his usual spot in the Denver Nuggets' locker room before Thursday night's game, so he did the next best thing.
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| Dec 14, 2001
Friday, December 14, 2001 - As Mike Evans walked off the Pepsi Center floor Thursday, he blew a victory kiss to his wife, Kim, and quietly said something to himself about his "friend" Dan Issel as he approached the tunnel where all the trouble began two days earlier.
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| Dec 14, 2001
Friday, December 14, 2001 - Things weren't exactly back to normal Thursday for the Denver Nuggets.
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| Dec 14, 2001
Friday, December 14, 2001 - The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and other Latino groups launched a boycott of the Denver Nuggets on Thursday, and team officials will meet today with community leaders to quell outrage over an ethnic insult coach Dan Issel yelled at a fan.
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| Dec 14, 2001
The real problem with Dan Issel may not be racism but a general inability to control anger.
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| Dec 14, 2001
From the looks of it, coaching a bad NBA team has turned into the toughest job in sports.
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| Dec 13, 2001
One piece of good news did appear from the rubble of the Denver Nuggets organization Wednesday.
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| Dec 13, 2001
Dan Issel's apology and four-game suspension for directing an ethnic slur at a heckler after the Denver Nuggets' home loss Tuesday failed to appease members of the city's Hispanic community.
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| Dec 13, 2001
The rock 'n' roll band Lifehouse began a recent hit with the lyric, "Desperate for changing, starving for truth.
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| Dec 13, 2001
THORNTON -- The way Bobby Bowman figures it, he lost one day's pay and Denver Nuggets coach Dan Issel lost four.
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| Dec 13, 2001
DENVER The Denver Nuggets suspended head coach Dan Issel for four games without pay Wednesday in response to racially oriented remarks the coach made to a heckler Tuesday night.
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| Dec 13, 2001
Thursday, December 13, 2001 - Notes from damage-control central .
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| Dec 13, 2001
Thursday, December 13, 2001 - It's a disgrace the Denver Nuggets are now more infamous for bigotry than bad basketball.
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| Dec 13, 2001
The Denver Post reports the fallout from Dan Issel's racially-tinged swearing at a Mexican fan.
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| Dec 13, 2001
Johnny Newman says teams wanted him, but he wanted to play for a winner.
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| Dec 12, 2001
In the hoopla over Nick Van Exel's trade request, he was quotes as saying, "I had problems there [Los Angeles], too.
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| Dec 12, 2001
The road wasn't great but it was good enough, with Tuesday's 99-96 escape from Denver giving the Hornets a 3-3 split of their six-game, 12-day marathon tour.
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| Dec 12, 2001
DENVER On Monday, when Nick Van Exel talked about wanting to be traded by the Denver Nuggets because the team loses so much, he said he took no solace from merely having chances to win down the stretch.
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| Dec 12, 2001
Wednesday, December 12, 2001 - Just seconds after the final buzzer, disgruntled guard Nick Van Exel screamed in frustration and stomped after yet another Denver Nuggets loss.
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| Dec 12, 2001
Wednesday, December 12, 2001 - Former Denver Nuggets guard Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf offered his reasons as to why he is not playing in the NBA on Tuesday's episode of HBO's "Real Sports".
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| Dec 12, 2001
Issel's mouth earns him a 4-game suspension
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| Dec 11, 2001
You got to love this intro from the Rocky Mountain News on the Nick Van Exel situation:
"La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la -- not listening to Nick Van Exel, not listening to Nick Van Exel, not listening .
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| Dec 11, 2001
Tuesday, December 11, 2001 - Has the time come for the Denver Nuggets to say goodbye to point guard Nick Van Exel?
The question was an emotional subject Monday after the Nuggets' practice.
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| Dec 11, 2001
Tuesday, December 11, 2001 - To tell the cold truth, Nick Van Exel doesn't care what you think.
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| Dec 11, 2001
Nick wants out
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| Dec 11, 2001
One more stop, one more game.
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| Dec 11, 2001
CHARLOTTE (9-11) AT DENVER (7-13)
Time: 9 p.
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| Dec 10, 2001
Monday, December 10, 2001 - Kiki Vandeweghe knew his new job as the Denver Nuggets' general manager wasn't going to be easy, but he probably couldn't fathom it being this hard so early.
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| Dec 10, 2001
Will the Denver Nuggets be able to give themselves an early Christmas present by saving the Nick Van Exel situation? The Rocky Mountain News reports that the team will meet with the disgruntled point guard to convince him to back off on his recent trade demand.
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| Dec 10, 2001
DENVER Nick Van Exel and team officials will meet Monday to discuss the possibility of a trade, which Denver Nuggets General Manager Kiki Vandeweghe said may not happen.
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| Dec 9, 2001
John Lucas took time out from his lovefest to lay a licking on his old team.
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| Dec 9, 2001
'I'm tired of this'
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| Dec 8, 2001
TORONTO Vince Carter usually shrugs off his heroics.
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| Dec 8, 2001
Saturday, December 08, 2001 - TORONTO - After he finished answering questions from the media, Denver Nuggets coach Dan Issel drifted down an Air Canada Centre hallway and stared lengthily at pictures on the wall.
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| Dec 8, 2001
The Cavaliers are getting healthier, which means they're getting deeper.
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| Dec 8, 2001
Nick Van Exel was a man of many second-half points but few words.
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| Dec 7, 2001
The Rocky Mountain News reports on the Denver Nuggets situation without injured star Antonio McDyess.
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| Dec 7, 2001
Friday, December 07, 2001 - TORONTO - Has anyone seen that once-promising basketball player Calbert Cheaney? Well, after years of being missing on the hardwood, the Denver Nuggets think they have found him.
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| Dec 6, 2001
Can Antonio McDyess play on one leg?
Probably not, but the Denver Nuggets couldn't be any worse off if he tried.
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| Dec 6, 2001
BOSTON Paul Pierce needed a little time to find his range against the Denver Nuggets.
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| Dec 6, 2001
Thursday, December 06, 2001 - BOSTON - Antonio McDyess is forced to do a lot of watching right now.
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| Dec 6, 2001
Thursday, December 06, 2001 - BOSTON - All the trade rumors involving the Denver Nuggets seem to have subsided.
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| Dec 6, 2001
ilestones, by definition, are meaningful events.
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| Dec 5, 2001
If Malone urges, he will go
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| Dec 5, 2001
INDIANAPOLIS Indiana Pacers coach Isiah Thomas pulled point guard Jamaal Tinsley aside during warmups and told him he had a mission make his teammates look good.
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| Dec 5, 2001
Wednesday, December 05, 2001 - INDIANAPOLIS - A set date for Denver Nuggets injured forward Antonio McDyess' return could come next week.
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| Dec 5, 2001
The team that would be left holding that little umbrella in the Peter Vecsey-inspired four team blockbuster cocktail is understandably baffled by the whole idea.
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| Dec 5, 2001
Wednesday, December 05, 2001 - INDIANAPOLIS - The Denver Nuggets spent Sunday morning examining videotape of poor defense in the first quarter of a Nov.
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| Dec 5, 2001
Greg Boeck of USA Today says that the supposed Karl Malone-to-Dallas trade talks are over.
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| Dec 4, 2001
Fans who believe the Denver Nuggets are an ugly sight without injured forward Antonio McDyess should have seen the team that was practicing Monday at the Pepsi Center.
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| Dec 4, 2001
DENVER Not to bring up a sore point, but .
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| Dec 4, 2001
Tuesday, December 04, 2001 - INDIANAPOLIS - Pacers coach Isiah Thomas sported a proud papa-like grin when asked about his rookie point guard Jamaal Tinsley before Indiana faced the Nuggets in Denver.
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| Dec 4, 2001
Hey Raef, are your bags packed?
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| Dec 3, 2001
Nick Van Exel got a phone call from Steve Francis asking him about Peter Vecsey's rumor that he would be traded to Golden State.
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| Dec 3, 2001
Monday, December 03, 2001 - Among the questions veteran NBA guard Avery Johnson fielded after practice Sunday was one in which he was asked to assess the Denver Nuggets' frame of mind on the road last season.
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| Dec 2, 2001
The Deseret News reports that Kevin O'Connor's answer when asked about the newest Peter Vescey trade rumor for Karl Malone was a great big NO.
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| Dec 1, 2001
Malone to ride into Dallas?
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| Dec 1, 2001
LaFrentz comes through for Nuggets
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| Dec 1, 2001
Kiki Vandeweghe came back.
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