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What was interesting about Saturday night was the closing. The Nuggets did something remarkable, but did not act like it. This team does not believe it is done, does not have a wandering eye on Cancun. This is the team that began the season with championship goals. One wall has been climbed. The Nuggets are back. “I think the owner, maybe he wanted to change something, change the energy. And probably he did, you know," Jokic said. "He got the result that, what he was looking for."

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The Kroenkes have a fondness for Micael Porter that stems from deep ties to their shared alma mater: Missouri. Sources with knowledge of Denver's thinking have maintained for some time that they struggled to envision ownership ever approving a deal that would send Porter away from the franchise.

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Vinny Benedetto: In a video shared by Nuggets, team president Josh Kroenke says he and his father, Stan, decided in recent days to move on from Michael Malone and Calvin Booth at season’s end. They moved up the timeline in hopes of maximizing the remainder of this season.

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Carmelo Anthony: I don’t honestly have any bull. Like, there’s no bullshit with me when it comes to Denver, to be honest. My only bullshit came with George. That was the only issue I had. I never had problems with the front office. We always had a really good relationship. Stan—we had a good relationship. Josh—we had a good relationship. Tiki Vanderweghe, Mark, you know—Mark Warkentien—God bless his soul. Like, my only thing was with George.

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Vinny Benedetto: Calvin Booth, Stan and Josh Kroenke just presented Michael Malone a jersey with “433” on it to celebrate his franchise record for coaching wins.

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Stan Kroenke's sports empire has produced an NFL, NHL and now NBA champion in three consecutive seasons. His latest title came Monday night when the Denver Nuggets won their first championship 47 years after joining the NBA. His Los Angeles Rams beat the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 in the Super Bowl following the 2021 season, and his Colorado Avalanche hoisted the Stanley Cup last summer after dispatching Tampa Bay in six games.

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Harrison Wind: Jamal Murray: “We’ve got Stan and Josh (Kroenke) in the locker room, win or loss. That means a lot. I’ll still get messages from Tim (Connelly). I’ll still get messages from Monte (Morris).”

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Arash Markazi: Stan Kroenke and the Kroenke family are in the building tonight with the Nuggets one win away from winning the West.

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Braun, in an appearance on the Rock Chalk Unplugged podcast, recounted one of his many “welcome to the NBA” moments. The Nuggets rookie told the story of how he was having the time of his life approaching his first season in the NBA. And then he came to work one day and saw a piece of paper on his chair. He then became perplexed to see that the Nuggets were fining him $15,000 before he even received his first paycheck. What was the reason for this fine, one might ask. Well, Christian Braun made the wrong decision to park in Nuggets governor Stan Kroenke’s reserved parking spots. “The three spots I parked in was Mr. Kroenke’s. I parked in his three spots. Not only did I park in his spot, I parked in all three of them. So it’s $5,000 in each of those executive spots. So I get $15,000 on my chair,” Braun recalled.

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Aadan: You park in multi billionaire Kroenke’s parking spot for 5 minutes when no one is at the arena? 15 THOUSAND dollar fine.

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If Leonsis’ group was to finalize a purchase from the Lerners and be approved by MLB, he’d become only the second person to own teams in three of the four major pro men’s sports leagues in the United States, joining the Kroenke family. The Kroenkes, along with owning Arsenal of the Premier League, own the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams, the NHL’s Colorado Avalanche and the NBA’s Denver Nuggets. They also own the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer, along with multiple other smaller league sports teams.

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Harrison Wind: Stan Kroenke is here at Nuggets training camp today.

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“The hard part about where I’m at right now is we’ve done a great job. Tim and Coach Malone and Mr. K and Josh, all of our best players getting us to this point, and now you’re inside the 10-yard line and the job becomes really, really hard,” Booth said. “But on the other side, what’s really easy is I know what Coach Malone likes. I have a feeling or a vision for the kind of guys, Nikola, Jamal or Michael would like to play with, and it just happens to be in line with my philosophy anyway.”

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Harrison Wind: Stan Kroenke is one of the richest owners in the NBA, and all Tim Connelly wants is to be paid like a top president of basketball ops. That’s it. He doesn’t want to leave Denver. But he will make the right decision for him and his family.

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