I will take an excerpt from an article I read today entitled “It’s Time for the League To Embrace The Nuggets”

The Nuggets have a lot of tattoos, play emotional, crazy and sometimes rough, and yes, harbor individuals who have had legal troubles. That means fans can call them “thugs” and it’s OK. I also never understood why George Karl gets let off the hook for that. He’s tall, intimidating, and has eyes that could pierce a brick wall. That’s your Swedish docks enforcer from central casting right there – [Via Sporting News]

I think you guys can see where the article is going here.   Bottom line, Denver has always gotten a reputation of being a little thugged out.  And I think the article does a great job of explaining.

However, could you guys pick more of a retarded picture to use.  That’s not exactly shedding the moronic image you guys are helping to shed is it?  I mean that’s about as close to “black guy monkey” as you’re gonna get.   Come on Sporting Blog!  Clean it up fellas.

And yeah, some of you might say they used that picture on purpose to display the Nuggets as thugs.  Either way it’s a wrong turn.  And I’m still calling bullshit.  You want a good picture to use?  Just show Carmelo with short hair.

But for those of you longing for retarded Nuggets player pictures, I’ve got some for you after the jump