The Denver Nuggets couldn't get it done for their first NBA Cup game of the year vs. the Portland Trail Blazers on Halloween night, falling in narrow fashion 107-109 as a result of some critical last-second unravelings, and thus, leaves the Nuggets 3-2 as ...

But the Nuggets couldn’t get him the ball in crunch time. Portland played small, double-teamed him and fronted him in the post. The weak-side shooter was often open, but the Blazers’ pressure was suffocating enough that Denver’s ball-handlers had a difficult time seeing the court and moving it to the second side.

The Portland Trail Blazers didn’t just prevent Nikola Jokic from making NBA history, they also handed him a stunning defeat. The Blazers slithered away from the Moda Center with a 109-107 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Friday night in an entertaining ...

After stringing together a three-game winning streak to cement themselves as one of the strongest teams in the Western Conference, the Denver Nuggets suffered a crushing loss to the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday night to move to 3-2 on the season.