The Denver Nuggets coaching staff has a UNLV flavor.  Ed Graney of the Review Journal.

Warkentien spent 11 years in basketball operations for the Rebels and helped recruit and build their 1990 national championship team. He was recently named NBA Executive of the Year for piecing together a puzzle that fit well enough this season for 54 wins and the No. 2 seed in the West.

Tim Grgurich is a Nuggets assistant who was part of three UNLV sprints to the Final Four under Tarkanian, tutoring such names as Augmon and Larry Johnson and Greg Anthony and others over a 12-year period.

John Welch is a Nuggets assistant who played a season at UNLV before serving as a graduate assistant for Tarkanian and then a full-time assistant under him at Fresno State.

Then there is Augmon. The former UNLV great is a player development coach for Denver and handles advanced scouting.

-Coach Finamore

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Seven-foot block machine Marcus Camby has found a new home.

RealGM is reporting that the 06-07 Defensive Player of the year has been traded to the Clippers for… absolutely nothing!

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Well, not nothing, technically. The Clips have sent a second round draft pick to the Nuggets in exchange for the The Camby Man, raising a legitimate question: is Mark Warkentien an amoeba dressed as a human being?

Clipper Nation is the place to be this offseason, and they’re a contender for the best offseason of all time. For those keeping count, the Clips have, so far:

• Signed the biggest free agent of the year.
• Lost their franchise player after seven years, in dubious circumstances.
• Made the most lopsided trade of the offseason, and arguably of the most lopsided of the last 20 years which doens’t involve Chris Wallace.

For the Nuggets though, this is a really weird trade.

It’s just strange. Why are the Nuggets doing this? Are they freeing up cap space for another lopsided move involving another one of their studs? Is this the end of Carmelo? Will Ron Artest be coming to the Mile High City, as was speculated last season?

Watch this space. You can rest assured that the Nuggets are definitely not done.

Posted by: James