Haze blanketed Colorado on Monday as wildfire smoke drifted from Canada, and the gray skies are expected to hover overhead for at least another 24 hours.

The wildfire smoke led the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the Regional Air Quality Council on Monday to issue public health advisories, recommending people limit outdoor activity. The smoke is increasing the amount of ozone and fine particulate matter in the air.

Air monitors across northern Colorado and the Front Range were showing high concentrations of particulate matter, which can be smoke, soot, ash or liquid particles that people can inhale.

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His basketball card belongs in the Louvre, posted up between the Mona Lisa and “The Wedding Feast at Cana.”

You could hang Chauncey Billups’ resume in the Salle des Etats, elbows jostling with “La Bella Nani,” a work of hoops art on par with “Titian’s Man with a Glove.”

But Paris?

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Now that the first weekend of NBA Summer League is over, games throughout this week will probably feature less and less of the key rotation-caliber players.

That certainly applies to the Nuggets. Standout guard Julian Strawther was in street clothes Tuesday at Denver’s 80-66 loss to the Charlotte Hornets, and he’ll likely be done for the duration of the team’s stay in Las Vegas.

Here are three takeaways from the loss as the Nuggets fell to 0-3 at Summer League 2024.

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