In Jokic's absence, New Orleans out-rebounded Denver 56-38, including 17-5 in offensive rebounds. Rookie center Yves Missi led the way for the Pelicans with a game-high and season-high 12 rebounds.

Scoring, soaring and passing drive interest in basketball — not sitting, sulking and pampering. The NBA has a problem because ...

The Denver Nuggets were without star center Nikola Jokic and coach Michael Malone for their NBA Cup opener Friday night ...

Cancar (ankle) logged two points (1-2 FG), two rebounds and one block in eight minutes off the bench in Fridays' 101-94 loss to the Pelicans.

The shorthanded New Orleans Pelicans desperately needed a win after suffering a six-game losing streak. With the Denver ...

To put things in perspective, Jokic's 29.7 PPG is higher than Shaquille O'Neal's peak scoring season (29.67 in 1999-00), his ...

Brandon Ingram scored 29 points to lift the New Orleans Pelicans to a 101-94 victory over the Denver Nuggets, who played ...

New Orleans was missing six players to injuries, including star forward Zion Williamson. Denver was fending for the first ...

Nuggets lead assistant David Adelman took over for Malone and said the most difficult challenge of stepping in was that ...

The Denver Nuggets unexpectedly announced on Thursday that superstar center Nikola Jokic was questionable for Friday’s game ...

We’re not fully there yet, but going onto Nikola Jokic ‘s basketball-reference page is getting to a similarly very silly ...