With the NBA draft three weeks away, the Nuggets announced the first set of players who will be coming in for workouts.
Denver, which has the 20th pick in the first round, will have workouts over the weekend, with forwards coming in Saturday and guards Sunday.
Scheduled for Saturday are Darrell Arthur of Kansas, Marcus Dove of Oklahoma State, James Gist of Maryland, J.J. Hickson of North Carolina State and Omri Casspi, who plays in Israel.
Guards coming in Sunday include Mario Chalmers of Kansas, Ty Lawson of North Carolina, Shan Foster of Vanderbilt, Lester Hudson of Tennessee-Martin and Robert Vaden of Alabama-Birmingham.
The two-round NBA draft will be held June 26.
Rage expands Egeland’s role.
The Rocky Mountain Rage of the Central Hockey League signed head coach Tracy Egeland to a multiyear contract extension and made him the team’s general manager, owner Tim Wiens said.
Egeland, the team’s only coach in its three-year history, was named coach of the CHL Northern Conference all-star team last season after leading the Rage to the league’s best record at the midway mark. Egeland oversaw a complete turnaround after the team improved by 37 points in going from last place in the conference in 2007 to second place in its division in ’08.
