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25 January 2025

• Renck & File: Nikola Jokic seeing fit for Russell Westbrook with Nuggets ranks as top accomplishment this season
  The Nikola Jokic-Russell Westbrook partnership has worked so well, Michael Malone must keep the latter in the Nuggets' starting lineup.
• Does Michael Malone have extra motivation when Nuggets play Sacramento? “I think for my mother watching at home, she does”
  Malone earned his first head-coaching job in the NBA with Sacramento in 2013, but he only lasted one season. He was hired six months later by Denver, where he became the winningest coach in franchise history.
• Nikola Jokic makes full-court heave in Nuggets’ win over Kings: “I knew it was going in”
  The moment of the night was Jokic's luckiest: a full-court shot in the third quarter.
• Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic makes 7th consecutive NBA All-Star Game
  Nikola Jokic is back in the NBA All-Star Game for a seventh consecutive season. Here's how the voting broke down for the Nuggets center.
• Nuggets Podcast: Nikola Jokic puts final nail in Embiid debate, Russell Westbrook thrives and Aaron Gordon returns
  In the latest Nuggets Ink podcast, Bennett Durando and Matt Schubert reconvene after Denver's annihilation of the Philadelphia 76ers.
• Nikola Jokic on Joel Embiid’s absences in Denver: “People are making it a bigger story than it is”
  Jokic wished Embiid a speedy recovery after the 76ers center was unable to travel to Denver for their game.
• Nikola Jokic is wearing a shooting sleeve after his elbow injury. He has superstitious reasons to keep it.
  His last three triple-doubles have been aided by a lucky shooting sleeve for a mysterious elbow injury.
• Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic records fourth straight triple double in win over Sixers
  The 3-time MVP filled up the stat sheet, totaling 27 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists to secure his team’s 27th win of the season.
• Keeler: Who needs Joel Embiid? Not Nuggets. Nikola Jokic-Victor Wembanyama is NBA’s marquee big man matchup now
  Styles make fights. Not excuses. Not agendas. As arguments for the NBA's best big man go, what they said in those old lottery ads applies to Joel Embiid, too: You can't win if you don't play.
• Michael Malone says Nuggets haven’t had true rivalry during his 10-year tenure
  "The NBA is always trying to find ways to bring that about. Like in this game (between the Nuggets and 76ers), in a perfect world, it's Joel Embiid vs. Nikola Jokic." Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone said.