Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert, left, goes up to block a shot by Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic, right, as Timberwolves center Naz Reid (11) looks on during a second-round playoff series Saturday, May 4, 2024, in Denver. Rudy Gobert is the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year for the 2023-24 season, the league announced Tuesday. It’s the Frenchman’s fourth time taking home that honor, which means he’s tied the NBA record. “Gobert becomes the third player in NBA history to win the award four times, joining Dikembe Mutombo and...

By Alexa St. John, Sean Murphy and Jim Salter | Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY — A tornado destroyed homes, forced the evacuation of a nursing home and toppled trees and power lines when it roared through a small Oklahoma town, one of several twisters that erupted in the central United States amid a series of powerful storms that stretched into Tuesday. At least one death was reported. The tornado ripped through the 1,000-person town of Barnsdall, about a 40-minute drive north of Tulsa, on Monday night. It was the second...

New Jersey native Joe Russo came out west to attend CU Denver…except he never made it to class. “I was supposed to start school,” he says. “Yeah, that was the plan. I moved out there. And within a week, it was like, ‘See you, Denver.’” Instead, the drummer joined a band of cutting-edge Boulder jazz and rock musicians who called themselves Fat Mama.He put off college for a semester, but that semester break turned into decades. “Now I'm a 47-year-old father of two living in New Jersey. So I'm very...

What lies beneath the bustling streets of Denver, and what secrets are hidden in its storied past?, a collaboration between local queer theater troupe Grapefruit Lab and indie band Teacup Gorilla , seeks to answer these questions through a musical storytelling experience about the city."We are mythologizing both the City of Denver and our band's friendship," says Miriam Suzanne , Teacup Gorilla's bass player, member of Grapefruit Lab and author of the book that inspired the performance's music and story. "This is the most half-concert, half-theater event we've ever done....

When those realities intersect, and a player in the midst of a playoff run learns that a baby is about to arrive, a decision has to be made. But babies? Babies know nothing from playoffs. When they decide it’s time to enter the world, they are going to enter the world. SUNRISE, Fla. — The playoffs are a voracious beast. Never satisfied until a title is won, they can swallow a player’s entire world, demanding the type of 24/7 commitment that pushes all other priorities out of the way. Professional...

After five years in Middleman’s tiny kitchen, Misfit Snack Bar is making a name for itself. Chef and owner Bo Porytko is closing the playful bar-food concept within Middleman at 3401 E. Colfax at the end of May to search for its own brick-and-mortar space. “Middleman and Misfit were always two separate businesses,” Porytko told The Denver Post. “We were always meant to splinter off and do our own thing.” Jareb Parker, owner of Middleman, recruited Porytko to take over the cocktail bar’s kitchen in 2019, after Porytko closed down...

"I saw they had a good future," Alvarado remembers. "It was very lucrative, because the salary of an official was three times the salary of a normal person." He became a police officer in 2003, when he was twenty years old. At the time, Venezuela was ruled by Huge Chavez; Alvarado remembers that Chavez's socialist policies kept individuals from owning two cars but welcomed large American oil and aeronautic companies. In 2013, Chavez died and was replaced by Nicolas Maduro. Alvarado says that right away, the change in leadership began...

The Dallas Mavericks are set to tip off their second-round series against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night. This will be the fourth time the franchises have faced off in the postseason since the Thunder left Seattle for OKC. And while fans may recall the Thunder being on the list of teams the Mavs overcame on the way to the 2011 NBA title, Oklahoma City has actually won eight of the last nine playoff games it has played against Dallas. Dirk Nowitzki was a part of every previous matchup,...

Jamal Murray’s bad night got worse during the Denver Nuggets’ 106-80 home loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday. The 27-year-old tossed a heating pack onto the court during the NBA playoff game, leading some analysts to call for his suspension. The heating pack skittered underneath players’ feet during the action before it was removed. The Canadian guard also tossed a towel toward the on-court action that didn’t make it to the court. Murray didn’t speak with reporters after the game to discuss the incident. Referees didn’t assess him with...

Lawrence Argent’s Big Blue Bear (officially titled “I See What You Mean”) is the first piece of art my five-year-old recognized. He saw a miniature of it at a friend’s house when he was about three and a half, and surprised us all when he said, “This looks like the bear downtown.” That my toddler could associate the Blue Bear with the center of Denver speaks to why it's so iconic: The sculpture is thought-provoking, awe-inducing and rooted in place.So rooted in place, in fact, that when Argent, a longtime...