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Vinny Benedetto: David Adelman's succinct thoughts on NBA expansion: "Keep Portland in Portland and add Seattle. Vegas would be cool. Nashville is a nice city."
Protecting a 118-115 lead, Denver intentionally fouled Austin Reaves with 5.2 seconds left in regulation Saturday night. It was properly executed, a low-risk foul while Austin Reaves’ back was to the basket so that he couldn’t feasibly go into a shooting motion. The Lakers guard stepped to the line for only two free throws — decidedly not enough to tie the game. Or so the Nuggets thought. The one thing that could go wrong did go wrong. “That’s one in 100 in the NBA,” coach David Adelman said after a 127-125 overtime loss. “It happened. You give them credit.” Reaves made the first free throw then intentionally missed the second, launching a bullet off the front of the rim. The ball caromed to the left, beyond the reach of Denver’s two players stationed on the low blocks, and Reaves chased down his own rebound. Collecting the ball in stride, he buried a game-tying baseline runner with 1.9 seconds left to force overtime and eventually steal the season series from Denver. “I mean, it’s a really good play. A perfect bounce,” a frustrated Nikola Jokic told The Denver Post. “He got the ball off his rebound. He made a floater.”
The Nuggets haven’t looked like those Nuggets for quite a while now. They were in a 6-7 funk that included an embarrassing 39-point home loss to the Knicks last Friday. But their 129-93 blowout of the Rockets in a Western Conference showdown Wednesday night at Ball Arena conjured up memories of the healthy, dynamic team that opened the season with a 12-3 record. “That version of us was very good,” coach David Adleman said before Wednesday’s game. “We just have to get (back) to that point. “Am I frustrated right now? Yes. The players are. We understand that. But nothing replaces playing with each other and finding rhythm.”
Ryan Blackburn: David Adelman on Bam Adebayo's 83 points: "That guy is as professional as it gets in our league and what he stands for in the NBA. So for him to take one night and kind of go a little bit crazy, I don’t think it’s a bad thing." Full Quote, Q via @TroyRenck
David Adelman on Bam Adebayo's 83 points:
— Ryan Blackburn (@NBABlackburn) March 12, 2026
"That guy is as professional as it gets in our league and what he stands for in the NBA. So for him to take one night and kind of go a little bit crazy, I don’t think it’s a bad thing."
Full Quote, Q via @TroyRenck pic.twitter.com/W8blJfRm2D
Bennett Durando: Cam Johnson is out tonight, David Adelman says. It’ll be the second straight game Nuggets are without their top four forwards. “The wings are not playing.”
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Bennett Durando: David Adelman defended Nikola Jokic today when asked by @BrendanVogt if it reaches a point where Jokic is focusing too much on the whistle and not enough on playing through it. "Nobody's being guarded like him in the league. Nobody. Nobody's going at the knees of other MVPs."
Bennett Durando: David Adelman, Bruce Brown and Jonas Valanciunas spoke to media today after practice. All three were asked by @TroyRenck if Lu Dort's comments to @JoelXLorenzi acknowledging he went "over the limit" mean anything to them. All three said "no" with no further comment.
Ryan Blackburn: David Adelman on Nikola Jokic vs Smalls: “We have to get used to the way Nikola is guarded, and if teams are allowed to go at his knees and grip his waist and pull his jersey out, and that's marginal contact, then we have to deal with that. That's just the way it is.”
Asked for his response to these comments from Denver’s David Adelman, OKC coach Mark Daigneault spoke broadly about the respect the Thunder have for the Nuggets. https://t.co/vmNHrUUXHL pic.twitter.com/I9XPCuPcKh
— Tim MacMahon (@BannedMacMahon) March 2, 2026
Bennett Durando: David Adelman says Cam Johnson’s ankle affected him today. Johnson is in the X-Ray room getting looked at. “Cam is out starting small forward. I trust him. Tonight, his body just wasn’t there.”
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Bennett Durando: With 36 hours of distance from the Nikola Jokic/Lu Dort incident, Nuggets coach David Adelman called it a cheap shot this morning and said it was "ridiculous" for OKC to not think it was a big deal. He spoke about seeing the fiery side of Nikola Jokic come out:
With 36 hours of distance from the Nikola Jokic/Lu Dort incident, Nuggets coach David Adelman called it a cheap shot this morning and said it was "ridiculous" for OKC to not think it was a big deal. He spoke about seeing the fiery side of Nikola Jokic come out: pic.twitter.com/D1vlL4Ermv
— Bennett Durando (@BennettDurando) March 1, 2026
David Adelman on Jokic: "I think his frustration is sometimes because the game's officiated differently out on the floor than it is near the basket. I think he was reacting to what was being done to him. When we play them again whatever it is in like 10 days I'm sure it'll be the exact same way"
Bennett Durando: David Adelman: “My hope is that we get the full group back with 20 games to go.”
Bennett Durando: Aaron Gordon “did basically everything but the contact stuff” in practice today. “He got up and down with script. We did some situational defensive drills. He was a part of that. But it’s just gonna be a day-by-day thing. … Aaron’s been great. He’s understood the process.”