Oden's injury from a Nuggets fan...

you dont know how much this means to us.

The division is officially yours now, so please beat the Lakers this year in the playoffs.

you guys have some butt-crazy, ugly players—but it’s a good rivalry and it’s all for fun. This isn’t fun, it’s real—so we appreciate the sense of perspective. Best to you this season.

The Nuggets are home to the non-Blazer (Carmelo Anthony) who is my favorite player in the league. Good luck to you this season.

inside, outside, there is no way to cover that man one on one. Most devastating offensive player in the league, including Kobe. Also, I have a lot of respect for how he’s grown as a person after having a start to his career that had a lot of folks wondering if he’d ever realize his full potential. He lives for the big moment, and he plays with the edge all the great one’s have. The true people’s champion of the NBA.

Also, something to remember:
The Nuggets know first hand about dealing with injuries to their man in the middle. Nene battled a series of injuries and suffered a career threatening knee injury in 2005-06 as well as fighting off Cancer in 08. He’s come back really strong, putting up career numbers this year. If we want a good example of someone whos been able to battle back after facing adversity, we dont need to look much further than our division rival nuggs.

But that doesn’t mean I won’t root against them if the Blazers would benefit from them doing poorly.

really nice to see.

But the race isn’t over yet!

…but classy post. Recced.

Nice post from a seemingly classy character.

Really don’t like the Nuggs but that’s mostly ‘cause they physically beat on my Blazers. And because ’Melo so danged unstoppable that it’s infuriating.

But really the only bad character on the team is J.R. Smith. A criminally reckless driver who actually caused the death of a friend with his knuckleheaded ways behind the wheel. But my favorite incident was when he was forced to shut down his Twitter account because he was writing in a style specifically attributed to the Bloods. WHAT AN IDIOT! An idiot with a really smooth stroke from outside.

But I love ’Melo and Chauncey and Nene, and even K-Mart is more bark than bite, even if he does have the worst tattoos in the history of sports.

I caught the special Oden filmed with Bill Walton, David Robinson, Bill Russell and a couple other legendary centers on NBA TV before the season. Greg was very humble and seemed genuinely excited to be in a room among some of the best centers in the history of the league. It was a cool show and everybody was offering up advice.

Watching Oden this season I started to think he was filling out some of his promise. To have him out for the season definitely sours the rest of the Nuggets vs. Blazers games … along with all the other Blazer injuries. Portland is my favorite team to play as on NBA 2K9 (Haven’t played 10 yet) because of all the depth.

Hope Oden can come back and get back to playing how he was this season and prove his doubters wrong. Hard working players are appreciated by this writer and Oden definitely filled that bill.

Nice to see our reader abaca15 post here first.

-Nate, Denver Stiffs