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2 unusual facts about Denver Nuggets


Cartman Finds Love

When Cartman learns that Kyle and Nichole have gone to a Nuggets-Clippers game together, he goes to the arena, and makes an impassioned plea on the arena's jumbotron for couples to recognize the importance of perseverance in their relationships, telling the audience that they should not let society dictate who they should be with, masking it as a plea to Kyle to not give up on their "relationship".

King College Prep High School

Marcus Liberty is a former NBA forward (1990–94), who spent most of his NBA career with the Denver Nuggets.


Delaware 87ers

The team was established with a close help from its NBA affiliate Utah Jazz, who indicated to the general manager job David Fredman - who was an assistant coach and director of scouting for the Jazz for 28 years, and also the assistant general manager for the Denver Nuggets - and as a coach Brad Jones, a regional scout who was the nephew of long time Jazz coach Jerry Sloan.

Dick's Sporting Goods Park

The stadium is owned by Commerce City and operated by Kroenke Sports Enterprises (KSE) who also own the Colorado Avalanche, Denver Nuggets, and the Colorado Mammoth, and who is a co-owner of English Premier League club Arsenal F.C. via subsidiary.

Jan van Breda Kolff

The son of coaching great Butch van Breda Kolff, V.B.K., as he was referred to, played from 1975 to 1983 for the Denver Nuggets, Kentucky Colonels, and Virginia Squires in the American Basketball Association, and the New York/New Jersey Nets in the National Basketball Association.

Jerrold Wexler

When Bertram Lee failed to come up with his ten percent share to purchase the National Basketball Association Denver Nuggets in 1989, Peter Bynoe recruited Jerrold Wexler and Jay Pritzker to keep the deal alive.

Lawrence Tanter

When World Wrestling Entertainment fought with the Denver Nuggets over an arena booking for a playoff game in 2009, Tanter was recruited as guest ring announcer for the main event of a newly relocated Raw at Staples Center.

Mark Higgs

Higgs is the younger brother of retired Cleveland Cavaliers/Denver Nuggets guard Kenny Higgs, who is the all-time leading scorer of the Red Devils' basketball team (1,833).

Marshall Thundering Herd men's basketball

Mike D'Antoni, current head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers and formerly of the Denver Nuggets, Phoenix Suns (NBA Coach of the Year for 2004-05) and New York Knicks, played college basketball at Marshall.

Marvin Webster

Nicknamed "The Human Eraser" and "Marvin the Magnificent", he played one season in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and nine in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Denver Nuggets (1975–77), Seattle SuperSonics (1977–78), New York Knickerbockers (1978–84) and Milwaukee Bucks (1986–87).

Mullens, West Virginia

Mike D'Antoni (born May 8, 1951 in Mullens, West Virginia) is a former basketball player and a former head coach of the NBA's New York Knicks, Phoenix Suns, & Denver Nuggets and current head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers.


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Ernest Vandeweghe

Kiki Vandeweghe (born 1958), his son, former basketball player for the Denver Nuggets, Portland Trail Blazers, New York Knicks and Los Angeles Clippers