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Denver #Nuggets writer for Forbes. Grateful Dead, Star Wars. No-fascism zone. Still at the old place (same handle) but weaning off. My Forbes pieces: https://www.forbes.com/sites/joelrush/ My NBA Bluesky list: https://shrtn.escalar.pt/iRuN

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That was *not* a foul on Murray. Refs have just decided they want OKC to win this one.

28.02.2026 05:25 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh shit, OT, this game's crazy....

28.02.2026 05:15 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

OKC is pretty easily the dirtiest team in the NBA. Kind of astonished that they get so many flowers when they're really the opposite of the "beautiful game".

28.02.2026 05:03 — 👍 27    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

Absolutey a dirty foul arm to the face by iHart to Mal, should easily be a flagrant

28.02.2026 04:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dort is 100% at fault here

28.02.2026 04:49 — 👍 17    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Okay, I just need Nikola Jokic to go into full Nikola Jokic mode.

28.02.2026 04:44 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Sorry to gripe so much, but another NBA point I'm gonna bitch about:

Why so often do they cut back into the live game action after it's already started and we miss the whole damn thing?

It's always like: "Here's what you missed, folks." Well, don't make us miss it.

28.02.2026 04:37 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

OKC trying to own Australia is making me lmfao

28.02.2026 04:34 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Okay, so J-Will can literally tackle Jokic and that's no foul. Mkay.

28.02.2026 04:32 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Broadcast: Shai is "so talented at drawing contact"

Um...

28.02.2026 04:29 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0

This is really possibly true, but we can't know his real condition because the Nuggets keep it under wraps

28.02.2026 04:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Fair enough, but he's gotta force the issue to make it undeniable.

28.02.2026 04:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I always hate to question Nikola Jokic's decision making because he's like 1000x smarter than me about basketball, but I do wish he'd be less deferential and more aggressive about taking it at OKC in this one.

28.02.2026 04:20 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Jamal Murray doing Blue Arrow shit, pulls up on a dime off the screen from Nikola Jokic to drill the 3
#Nuggets

28.02.2026 04:17 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I mean, are we just gifting OKC free points now? What's up w/ that tech on THJ off the bench?!?

28.02.2026 04:14 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Ball don't lie

28.02.2026 04:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Still can't believe the #Nuggets landed THJ for a minimum.

Possibly the biggest and best NBA offseason acquisition in terms of bang for the buck.

28.02.2026 04:03 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Tim Hardaway Jr. drains back-to-back triples

#Nuggets

28.02.2026 04:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Tim Hardaway Jr. FB 3 off the Jamal Murray assist

Christian Braun FB layup and-1

Nikola Jokic contested paint jumper (should've been an and-1)

CB corner 3

#Nuggets #MileHighBasketball

28.02.2026 03:58 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Jamal Murray crosses over Alex Caruso at the arc to pull up for the triple

#Nuggets

28.02.2026 03:39 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Why, in the NBA, when a player who's handling literally just slams the ball into an opposing defender's foot, is it called a "kicked ball" even when the defender's foot wat totally stationary and planted, and made no movement to kick it?

28.02.2026 03:36 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

😂

28.02.2026 03:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Christian Braun for 3

Cam Johnson for 3

CB again w/ the transition layup off the long outlet from Nikola Jokic

#Nuggets

28.02.2026 03:23 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

And the grift begins...

28.02.2026 03:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How was that not a take foul?

28.02.2026 03:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

👀

28.02.2026 03:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

OKC Thunder playing their classic defensive (cough, cough) "strategy" of fouling Nikola Jokic on every single possession, actually get called on it once and whine their asses off.

28.02.2026 03:03 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

How TF was Wallace undercutting CB's legs on his transition dunk not a flagrant? That was a straight up dangerous (and not on-the-ball) play

28.02.2026 03:00 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Nikola Jokic floats up a ridiculous push shot off the glass for the and-1 for the #Nuggets' first bucket

28.02.2026 02:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Why do you feel that's good?

28.02.2026 02:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0