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One of the Nuggets’ breakout stars of NBA Summer League has earned himself an extended stay. Curtis Jones and the Nuggets have agreed to a two-way contract that will keep him with the franchise for the 2025-26 season, a league source confirmed Sunday afternoon. Jones led the Nuggets in scoring over five games the past two weeks in Las Vegas, averaging 14.6 points on 54.9% shooting from the field and 46.7% from 3-point range. The undrafted rookie out of Iowa State also averaged 4.4 rebounds and 3.8 assists for the Summer Nuggets, who went 2-3 in Sin City. Jones played four…

A 12-year-old boy is missing after he was last seen early Saturday in Greenwood Village, police officials said. Jayshawn Tatum was last seen at 3 a.m. in the 5200 block of South Quebec Street, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Jayshawn recently moved to Colorado and is unfamiliar with the area, officials said. ACTIVATION:ON 07/19/2025, JAYSHAWN TATUM, 12 YOA LAST SEEN 5200 S. QUEBEC ST. AT 3AM. RECENTLY MOVED TO COLORADO, IS UNFAMILIAR WITH THE AREA & DOESN’T HAVE A CELL PHONE/MONEY. TATTOO ON HIS LEFT ARM SAYS “JASMINE.” IF SEEN CALL 911 OR THE GREENWOOD VILLAGE PD AT…

Six people were wounded in shootings, a stabbing and a fight across metro Denver on Friday night and early Saturday, police officials said. Two people were wounded in shootings in Denver’s Elyria-Swansea and Kennedy neighborhoods, according to the police. Officers responded to a shooting about 10:42 p.m. Friday near East 44th Avenue and Milwaukee Street and found one man with wounds that were not life-threatening, officials said. No information about suspects was available. A second Denver shooting was reported north of the Cherry Creek Reservoir about 4 a.m. Saturday in the 10700 block of East Dartmouth Avenue, Denver police said.…

When the topic of the Colorado receiving corps came up during a recent interview, freshman quarterback JuJu Lewis was matter-of-fact in his assessment. “Elite. Elite. Elite,” he said. CU’s top four receivers from last year are now in the NFL, including Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter, yet Lewis has plenty of reason to tout the group of pass catchers in Boulder this year. Leading up to preseason camp, which opens July 28, BuffZone.com will preview each position group for the CU football team and in this installment, we look at the receivers and tight ends. Last year, Hunter and LaJohntay…

INDIANAPOLIS — All of the players on Team Clark and Team Collier warmed up for Saturday night’s WNBA All-Star Game in shirts that read “Pay us what you owe us.” The shirts come after the players and the league failed to reach a new collective bargaining agreement at an in-person meeting Thursday. The league’s players opted out of their last CBA in October, and are looking for a better revenue-sharing model, increased salaries, improved benefits and a softer salary cap. “I’m just so inspired by the amount of players that showed up, the engagement that was there,” WNBPA President Nneka…

Anyone lucky enough to witness a series-clinching win by the 2025 Rockies might as well make a wish. It’s about as fleeting and rare as spotting a shooting star over Coors Field. With help from the family-friendly tradition of Star Wars night at the ballpark, 42,131 paid to spot one together on Saturday night — a 10-6 Rockies victory over the Twins that cemented Colorado’s first home series win of the year. “It’s definitely a nice building block, absolutely,” manager Warren Schaeffer said. “We want series wins at home. Nobody wanted it to take this long to get it, but…

A “possible human bone” was found in a Westminster field Friday afternoon, police officials said. Someone walking on an open space trail near 122nd Avenue and Park Centre Drive came across the bone at 2:30 p.m., the Westminster Police Department said on social media. Investigators brought in a cadaver dog from the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office to help with the search, but no additional remains have been found. Police are still determining the age of the bone. The investigation is ongoing, agency officials said. This is a developing story and may be updated. Sign up to get crime news sent…

A man was shot and killed by two El Paso County sheriff’s deputies in a neighborhood near Security-Widefield late Friday after he attacked them and managed to get one of their Tasers, officials said. Deputies were called to a home in the 6500 block of Tranters Creek Way at 11:32 p.m. when someone reported a disturbance involving a gun, the sheriff’s office said in a news release. The deputies found a gun in the driveway and made contact with a man and woman inside the home. When they detained the man, he “became physically aggressive toward deputies and obtained control…

Like many Denverites, the basketball guys up in the Grading The Week (GTW) offices still have a handful of family and friends who call Iowa home. Much as we love our Buc-ee’s brisket, that smiling beaver will never make a pizza as good as the ones you can grab from a Casey’s General Store. (Of which there are none within 180 miles of downtown Denver. More’s the pity.) At any rate, our Midwest peeps still drop a line now and again. Especially when a local fave hits our fair shores. “Watch out for Curtis Jones,” somebody wrote us two weeks…

Denver Bouldering Club, a local gym operator, has filed for bankruptcy after closing one of its three locations. The business, which opened its first boulder gym in 2009, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in early July in a bid to keep two locations in Englewood and Denver’s Valverde neighborhood open. The third location, in Thornton, closed days before, at the end of last month. In an Instagram post, the company cited only “unforeseen circumstances.” But in court documents, the company said the spot was dragging it down. “(DBC) was forced to file bankruptcy due to an underperforming location, unfavorable lease,…