![]() ![]() That’s where Paul Millsap comes in.Class: Canvas, Cocktails & Drag. Now they need a li’l birdie on one shoulder whispering, this Suns game? Counts the same as the Warriors game. The Nuggets last season won 46, a number anchored down by those silly losses we were talking about. It’s a big year.”įorty-nine wins stands as a reasonable goal and the prediction here. But I feel like we’re going to take major strides toward where we want to be. How many steps we take this year is to be determined. We all want to have it fast and have it right now. “Everything’s a process once you get to this point - our team and where we want to go. We want to show these guys you have to take the steps and can’t skip ‘em,” Millsap said. It’s just the little things, about the steps. Barkley pegged the Nuggets as the next No. ![]() So is the hype train, which makes for a sweet ride until it runs you over. The loudest in the room is that of 5-foot-9 stick-of-dynamite Isaiah Thomas, who again raised the volume by gifting a “Bumpboxx” stereo system to each teammate to tip off the season. “If everybody is doing it by example that’s great,” coach Michael Malone said Tuesday. Don’t lose to the Grizz, (the bad) Hawks or Mavericks. The joy of a fresh, new reality can be taken away at any time - as Millsap personally can attest. He must be good in reminding and showing the young fellas handed the right to lead an NBA franchise that their opportunity is a rare one. He must be good this season, but not in a points and rebounds or “vintage Millsap” sort of way. Yes, that’s where Millsap comes in again. It needs to be the one that’s huffing air out of its nose like somebody kicked its shin. ![]() If the Nuggets were an emoji it would be the one sticking its tongue out. “Honestly, we probably would’ve won the whole thing.” “If we had the offensive firepower that this team had, we probably would’ve won the championship,” Millsap said. How do you get the first one to take every game seriously like the second one did? Millsap’s 2014-15 Hawks never took a day off, won 60(!) games and reached the conference finals. His cold stare screamed what are you trying to say, dude, so we detoured back to the original topic: These Nuggets vs. But don’t say the “O” word around him, like I goofed, recalling that time I covered his Louisiana Tech team way back in the day. ”Since coming into the league I would say I feel better than I ever have,” he said. Going through my first surgery, being out for that length of time, it was devastating,” said Millsap, whose step-by-step rise was carved out by old-fashioned hard work. “Heartbreaking,” Millsap said, and the sincerity of his anguish says plenty about a man who’s already made $150 million playing basketball. We don’t know for sure, because the Nuggets got to see Millsap for only 16 truly healthy games before he suffered a freaky wrist injury that required surgery and still - 11 months later - had him getting choked up when we spoke Tuesday in the locker room. Clippers, we’re going to find out what these Nuggets look like with a healthy Paul Millsap. Speaks softly, used to carry a big stick. 4, power forward, four-time All-Star, Montbello-kid-come-home. Paul Klee: The perfect Nuggets team for Colorado? This one - when they make the playoffsĪnd that’s where Paul Millsap comes in. ![]()
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