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Nuggets NBA Finals run inspiring kids at Cope Boys & Girls Club
With the Nuggets close to making NBA history, kids at the Cope Boys & Girls Club express their inspiration for the game, while rooting for the home team.
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Alan Gionet loves living and working in Colorado. He has been in news for more than 30 years. "I find new things every day and truly love people, so this is a great job for me," he said. In his decades in Colorado he has covered many of the Centennial State's biggest stories, like forest fires and environmental stories, mass killings and COVID. A student of science and politics, he loves to break down complicated concepts and ask questions that get to the core of the story.
With the Nuggets close to making NBA history, kids at the Cope Boys & Girls Club express their inspiration for the game, while rooting for the home team.
They flowed into bars and watch parties. They crowded into bars and outdoor spaces like McGregor Square. They set aside emails and work that needed to get done and watched their Denver Nuggets to take Game 1
Fans have stayed with the team from games in the old Denver Auditorium Arena and Coliseum to McNichols Arena and the Pepsi Center, now called Ball Arena.
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The restaurant industry is pulling together for two benefits for the victims of a double shooting at a restaurant in the Highlands neighborhood.
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