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Aaron Gordon returns to Nuggets practice, explains dog bite injury on Christmas: “When you (mess) around, you find out”

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December 31, 2023

Aaron Gordon returns to Nuggets practice, explains dog bite injury on Christmas: “When you (mess) around, you find out”

Aaron Gordon rejoined the Nuggets for practice Sunday after missing two games due to injuries from a dog bite on Christmas. Gordon told The Denver Post he feels ready to play Monday when the Nuggets host the Hornets.

A league source said it’ll be Gordon’s call as to whether he plays against Charlotte, and that the team feels comfortable allowing him to play if he’s ready.

The dog that bit Gordon was his Rottweiler, which he adopted about four years ago when the dog was six weeks old, Gordon said. Due to the travel demands of the NBA schedule, he doesn’t get to spend much time around his pet during the season, so he has family looking after it for him. Gordon is considering possible training alternatives.

“I love dogs. I grew up with dogs my whole life,” Gordon said. “But because we’re on the road so much, my dad’s taking care of him, so I can’t really train him how I need him to be. … But I feel good. Everything is fine.”

Sporting 21 stitches caused by the incident, mostly bandaged across his right shooting hand, Gordon was in good spirits after his return to practice. He thanked everyone who wished him well during his absence from the team and added that he saw memes on social media relating to the dog bite, which he thought were funny. Gordon was also scarred near his lip.

“I’ve played with stitches in my hand before, so that’s not new to me,” he said.

He knew he was ready to return to basketball activities after the pain in his hand felt manageable.

“I don’t really care about the stitches on my face,” he said. “We’re not running a pageant here.”

“I’ll talk to him in a little bit here just to see how it felt at practice today, catching the ball, shooting the ball,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone said. “It’s on his right hand. So it’ll be a discussion with him, and how comfortable he is going out there, playing. But he looked good today. I think for him it was just great to be back in the gym. And you always hear that from guys, when they’re not with the team, what they miss most is being around the locker room and the team and the comradery that we all have. But we’ll see how he’s feeling tomorrow with the hand.”

As for what happened: Gordon was at home when he was bit. It was after Denver’s Christmas Day win over the Warriors. Gordon went to the hospital that night to get his injuries stitched up. The way he explained it Sunday, the bite was an unfortunate accident that was his own fault more than anything.

“I guess it’s a little bit embarrassing, but not too embarrassing to where I can’t talk about it,” he said. “I don’t drink a lot during the season. I probably had a little bit too much eggnog. I was kind of roughhousing with my dog, and I think my dog got a little excited and just basically chomped down. Gave me a bite. And I was basically wrestling him off of me, and then he bit my hand.

“For lack of better words, I was (messing) around with my dog, and when you (mess) around, you find out.”

Malone learned of the incident the morning of Dec. 26. He told Gordon to take as much time as he needed to heal from both the physical and psychological injuries. Gordon wasn’t in attendance for practice Dec. 27 or for either game of Denver’s back-to-back the next two days, watching on television from home. The Nuggets (23-10) took Saturday off after splitting their games against Memphis and Oklahoma City.

Malone told The Post he continued to reach out to Gordon throughout the week, and at one point, Gordon told Malone he felt like he was letting the team down. The Nuggets’ 119-93 loss to the Thunder on Friday was their worst margin of defeat at home since Jan. 15, 2019, when they were crushed 142-111 by the Warriors.

“I really, really enjoy this team,” Gordon said. “They love me very much. I love them too. That’s probably one of the hardest things about this whole thing. It’s such a fluke, silly injury. I had to miss a couple games, a couple of days, and be away from my team, and that sucks. … Being in the hospital and getting stitches is never fun. But it’s just like, I felt bad because I was taking away the doctors’ time when they could’ve been dealing with something more serious. Just feel a little silly, but it’s alright.”

Gordon vouched for his dog Sunday and said they reconciled the night of the bite. According to authorities, no dog bite involving an individual named Aaron Gordon was reported to local or state animal protection services.

“He’s a good boy. He’s a good dog,” Gordon said. “… Very attached. Very sweet. Very strong. Great dog.”

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Denver bookstore Tattered Cover accepts $1.83 million sales bid from Barnes & Noble

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June 18, 2024

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Denver bookstore Tattered Cover accepts $1.83 million sales bid from Barnes & Noble

The Tattered Cover, a beloved Denver institution and nationally known independent bookstore, has accepted a sales offer from Barnes & Noble, a model for the fictionalized corporate bookstore chain that ran a small independent bookseller out of business in the movie “You’ve Got Mail.”

The 53-year-old Denver business, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late 2023, agreed Monday to accept Barnes & Noble’s offer of up to $1.83 million in cash. The agreement is for Tattered Cover’s four stores and is supported by the bookstore’s parent company, Bended Page.

Under the agreement, the name of the Tattered Cover Book Store and the store’s program of events would continue, according to a motion filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado. The buyer, TC Acquisition Co. LLC, an affiliate of Barnes & Noble Inc., anticipates offering jobs to “substantially all” of Tattered Cover’s roughly 70 employees.

The purchase will cover the $1.6 million in secured claims that Tattered Cover owes. Barnes & Noble will pay $50,000 for back rent and plans to extend the leases on the store’s sites.

The lease on the store’s main location at East Colfax Avenue in Denver will be extended through 2038 and the lease on the store in the Aspen Grove shopping center in Littleton would run through 2030, said Steven Silvers, a spokesman for Bended Page.

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Plane crashes in Steamboat Springs, smoke rises from mobile home park

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June 17, 2024

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Plane crashes in Steamboat Springs, smoke rises from mobile home park

DENVER (KDVR) — A plane crashed Monday in a Steamboat Springs mobile home park, according to reports from the scene.

The Routt County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the crash when FOX31 reached out around 4:45 p.m.

A photo from Steamboat Radio’s Shannon Lukens showed smoke rising from the crash site in the area of West Acres, a Steamboat Springs mobile home park. Lukens said two trailers caught fire.

Lukens spoke with a West Acres resident who was there when the crash happened.

“I just heard a jet pass by and I just hear a boom, everything around us just shakes,” Beyonce Alegria told Lukens. “There’s screaming, there’s people screaming there’s kids in there. And the houses just go up in flames. You can just feel everything going hot. Ashes are everywhere. It was one of the scariest experiences.”

FOX31 has a crew headed to the scene and is working to develop more information about what happened. Check back here and on FOX31 News at 5 p.m. for updates.

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Oregon Football’s Bo Nix Impresses Denver Wide Receiver

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June 17, 2024

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Oregon Football’s Bo Nix Impresses Denver Wide Receiver

More praise for former Oregon quarterback Bo Nix, this time from Denver Bronco Pro Bowl receiver Courtland Sutton.

Sutton is the latest to chime in on the ability of Nix to lead this team into a new era. Simply put, Sutton forecasts early success for Nix.

“If it becomes a three or four-year dynasty, then I hope I will be able to be a part of it.”
– Courtland Sutton, Broncos Receiver

The Broncos drafted Nix with the 12th pick in the 2024 NFL Draft with high expectations for the record setting former Duck.

Sutton acknowledges there is a three-way battle for the starting QB position in Denver. In addition to Nix, rookie Jarrett Stidham and veteran Zach Wilson are all in the mix. However, he does not see this as being a long, multi-year process of hits and misses while battling division rivals Kansas City and the Los Angeles Chargers who tout another former Duck quarterback Justin Herbert and a new coach in Jim Harbaugh.

“We want to win right now,” said Sutton during a recent interview. “I think with Bo being a young guy and a guy they took really high, I understand the politics of the game and everyone is rooting for him to be the guy. I think he does a lot of things really well and I think he has the ability to go out and have success early. I don’t see this being a three or four-year process. If it becomes a three or four-year dynasty, then I hope I will be able to be a part of it.”

Denver Broncos wide receiver Courtland Sutton runs with the ball against the Detroit Lions.

Dec 16, 2023; Detroit, Michigan, USA; Denver Broncos wide receiver Courtland Sutton (14) runs with the ball against the Detroit Lions in the third quarter at Ford Field. / Lon Horwedel-USA TODAY Sports

Sutton’s role going forward is not as clear as he would like. Following an outstanding 2023 season in which he caught 59 passes for 772 yards and 10 touchdowns, Sutton has asked Denver for either more money overall and/or more guaranteed money. So far, there has been no movement on either side.

Logically, it makes sense for the Broncos to find a way to keep Sutton onboard. This is the time for quarterbacks and wide receivers to get to know each other. More specifically, Nix would benefit from having a proven receiver to rely on early in his career. Sutton has been that guy for the “musical chairs game” of signal-callers over the past five seasons and there is no reason to think he can’t be the same for Nix.

“I hope that I am a part of the bigger picture,” said Sutton. “I’ve been told that is what the gameplan is. I’ve also been told some other things. We will see what happens. I hope I am able to be a part of the gameplan.”

While there appears to be a great deal of pressure on Nix’s shoulders, Oregon Ducks’ fans have seen proof of his ability to take on that sort of pressure and excel. The Broncos believe this former Oregon star is NFL-ready. We will see in a few short months.

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