Carmelo Anthony News

Coming off an emotion-charged opening night win and a sleepless night, the Nuggets wereA perhapsA due for a letdown.

Not only have they been slow, but they seem out of sync. They will certainly pull it all together against the lowly Minnesota Timberwolves tonight.

In what will be a season-long battle for supremacy and first place in the Northwest Division, the Portland Trail Blazers took on the Denver Nuggets in the Rose Garden Thursday night for the first game in the series.

The game ended. The city exhaled. And the Trail Blazers toweled off in the locker room, and reflected, and understood that their fight is just beginning.

A pair of Northwest Division powerhouses open the 2009-10 season tonight, as the Denver Nuggets welcome the rival Utah Jazz to the Pepsi Center.

No joke: If the Nuggets are to get the last laugh in the NBA this season, Nene must be their center of attention.

For the first time in more than a decade, the Denver Nuggets are heading into the regular season with high expectations among their own locker room.

Carmelo Anthony, guarded by the Pacers’ Dahntay Jones during a game Oct. 11 in Beijing, says he feels good about the Nuggets’ chances this season after they lost to the Lakers in six games in last season’s Western Conference finals.

Every TrueHoop Network member site will be posting their season preview today so make sure you check out as many as humanly possible either via the the drop down menu up above or the blogroll along the right sidebar.

Coming soon is Bird 24/7. Chris “Birdman” Andersen is already larger than life on a mural on the side of a downtown building.

The Sentinel’s NBA coverage team brings you its preseason Power Poll on the blog.

There is no honor in the preseason, no revenge in an exhibition win. The Nuggets face the L.A. Lakers in back-to-back games beginning tonight in Anaheim, Calif., and concluding Friday in San Diego.

Playing without their injured inside duo of 7-footers Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum, the Los Angeles Lakers routed the Denver Nuggets 106-89 in an exhibition game Thursday night.

The pre-season slugged along tonight as the Nuggets and Blazers combined to commit 67 fouls and shoot 90 free throws in a flowless game that saw the Blazers wind up on top, 98-96. Kudos to most of the Rose Garden fans for sitting through it all.

Jordan Strauss/WireImage.com Carmelo Anthony is tired. Not of the LeBron comparisons, nor last season’s Kobe hangover, nor that alleged DUI - by all accounts , he’s happy, healthy, and ready to lead Denver back into the breach.