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J.R. Smith has your “Three Goggles” right here.

The Denver Nuggets swingman celebrates (Rudy-style) after hitting a three pointer in last night’s 95-77 trouncing of an exhausted Portland Trail Blazers team. Smith’s mocking of the Blazers’ celebratory meme overshadowed a game where Denver’s fresh legs helped them dominate a Blazers squad on the second night of a back-to-back. In what has been the theme of this season, the Blazers follow a positive development (Monday’s 96-91 road victory over the Utah Jazz) with a negative one, which might explain their mediocre 16-16 record. Don’t blame the thin Colorado air (Patty Mills described the sensation on twitter as “like playing basketball on Mt. Everest”), or the fact that the Blazers have now played the most road games of any NBA team (an honor they share with the dismal Minnesota Timberwolves), truth is Portland looked uninspired against a vulnerable Denver team that is missing star player Carmelo Anthony

In other Blazers news, ESPN’s Chris Broussard reports that “Portland is as active on the trade market as any club” and Marcus Camby would rather retire than play for a rebuilding team—present company excluded, I suppose. The Orlando Magic are still interested in Camby’s services, and Portland has constantly been mentioned as the lucky pierre in a New Jersey/Denver deal that would send pouting superstar Anthony to the Nets for a bevy of young players and draft picks.

The Blazers return home tomorrow and will try for their second win in a week against the Utah Jazz.

Ezra Ace Caraeff is the former Music Editor for the Mercury, and spent nearly a third of his life working at the paper. More importantly, he is the owner of Olive, the Mercury’s unofficial office dog....

4 replies on “Your Daily Blazer: Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead Tired”

  3. I hate the Nuggets. I don’t know why…. I just do – more than any other team. If it weren’t for Billups, who is their only saving grace, I’d probably throw a brick through my teevee screen everytime I saw them. Or probably just the first time I saw them, I guess.

  4. I thought the blazers looks fairly tight until the last 12 seconds of the first half. Nuggets turned a two point lead into a seven point lead, and the blazers never caught back up.

    The final 1.8 seconds of the first half were the MOST terrible. That was one of the dumbest plays ever by the blazers.

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