Tip your hat and just hand
them the trophies at the end,
LeBron said this Nuggets team
probably the best team he's faced
since he joined the Lakers.
I thought it was especially interesting
to hear the Nuggets because they've
kept this mantra about they're
not here to get to the Finals,
they're here to win a championship.
And that continued last night,
even with all the excitement
and Nicole Ioca afterwards when
when asked about the MVP.
Went out of his way to explain
that he thought Joel and Bead was
as perfectly good choice to be the
MVP and was so gracious in victory,
which can be hard for some people.
Yes,
sometimes that that whole victory
catches up with you and you lose a
little bit of that humble factor,
but never with him. Yeah,
Lebra. Always very gracious in defeat
as well, but ESPN is still going to
cover him instead of the Nuggets.
What's he going to have for lunch tomorrow?
What he's going to do, exactly.
So now the long wait begins
for the Finals to get underway.
You know the calendar.
9 days until they play again.
The NBA Finals already locked in.
It's going to start on Tuesday,
Thursday, June 1st.
Long time to wait.
We might not have to wait too long to
find out who they're playing though.
The Miami Heat take on the Celtics
tonight down in Miami with the Heat
leading that series three games to none.
As we told you, with the Nuggets up 3 zip.
No teams ever come back from
that sort of deficit.
So it's likely.
It'll be the Nuggets and Heat in the Finals.
If that's the case,
the Nuggets have homecourt advantage.
They'll be hosting games one and
two at Ball Arena June 1st and 4th.
Should the Celtics be that first
team to pull off a miracle,
they would have homecourt advantage,
meaning games one and two
would instead be in Boston.
Games three and four,
as you see on the 7th and 9th, would bend.
Then be the games here.
In Denver,
Megan's fans were able to snag some
NBA Finals merchandise this morning.
This is the first time they've ever
been able to do that,
Yeah, 9 News reporter
Jalisa Irizarry tells US1.
Long time merchandise shop owner
made a little history of his own.
There are so many ways to
describe Monday night's victory.
Historic. Has a nice ring to it.
Don't need a shirt? Go with it.
On Tuesday morning, the employees
at Sports Fan went to work.
Your total is going to be 1/09/89 cashing
in on the business's biggest bet.
Because when opportunity called,
we have the hats and the T, Derek
Friedman answered, not within an hour,
but probably by the end of the day.
Honestly, I never thought
the the Nuggets would beat the Lakers
in a playoff series in my lifetime.
When everyone doubted Denver
sports fan shop owner Derek
Friedman absolutely took the odds,
placing his order for Finals
merchandise before the games began.
A risk he didn't even take
for the abs last year.
We knew we had so much confidence
and how sweet it is. Too sweet.
You know, this is the first
time that the Nuggets have ever swept,
and so obviously you got
to get the brooms out,
especially since it's the Lakers.
And say goodbye to Le Bron and
say hello to the final. All right,
For the first time ever, Nuggets fans
will get a feel for the Finals. Looking
for, let's see, probably a medium,
those that bought early.
Do it confidently. We're going to
win. We're going to be NBA
champions for the first time ever.
And the whole narrative from all
of the national pundits was,
you know, it's all about the Lakers,
nothing about the Nuggets and
to quote a very wise man with
the last name Malone.
They could put that in
their pipe and smoke it.
Not much more needs
to be said about this.
Basketball teams run go Nuggets.
But as history unfolds,
you got fitted hats.
So will the payout. Awesome.
Thank you. Thank you,
Friedman says. Because the Nuggets
won the Western Conference finals,
his employees will be getting a bonus.
He's also already preordered
finals championship Care Tom.
He did that before the playoffs even started.
Well, the Nuggets have been the choice of
many this year to win the championship.
So it's it's a bit of a gamble of course,
but but one many have taken. Yeah,
I mean, that's the thing.
I think if you look at it nationally,
a lot of people have been
counting the Nuggets out quietly.
They don't really pay attention to us, right?
But if you talk about hometown here,
we have a lot of faith in our Nuggets.
People love to get that merchandise.
I got to be honest though,
the the hats and the shirts we
saw the Nuggets wearing last night
that they were selling today.
Not not my favorites,
but hey, it's authentic in the sense
that's what they're wearing in the locker
room as they're celebrating this win.
So that's, that's the memory
that they hold on to with that.
I get it. All right. Thanks to Lisa.
You're a fashionista,
huh? That's a me. I'm a style guy.
How about this? Is this your style?
This is not my style. No, I like
it when we can see the mountains
and stuff or something.
There you see, of course,
the field of what they're building,
the new scoreboard.
That's where the Broncos play.
It can't. You can't even distinguish that.
Not great. It's not great.
Smoke outside.
Let's get over to Kathy.
Talk more about it.
Sounds like it may not be
around too much longer though.
I know. And I know you're
sad about that, Tom.
I'm ready to move it out,
send it somewhere.
I want to talk to Mr.
Friedman and Jalisa's story
because sounds like he's really
good at predicting the future.
So maybe he could help me a
little bit with, you know,
some of the prognostic
hitting that we do in
the weather each other. Yeah,
what a great call he made last night.
And you know what?
We see a major shift in the weather
pattern coming, which will bring not
only some beneficial moisture to the
area after a little bit of a break,
but also a wind shift,
which will scour out some of this bad air,
smoke and hay settling in not just to Denver,
but the entire front.
Change all the way down into Texas,
New Mexico, the northerly winds
driving that Canadian wildfire
smoke in and it's settling in.
Air quality alerts, they're expiring,
they're reinstated.
Kind of waiting to see what's
going to happen with that.
But as long as you have winds out of
the east pushing those particulates
back up against the foothills,
we'll be dealing with the smoke and haze.
The worst of it is to the north of us.
And where you see the darker shaded
blue areas, that's where we're
seeing the thickest smoke bands.
But watch what happens tomorrow
night into Thursday.
Wind shift pushes a lot of
that smoke and haze away.
Away from the area.
So by Thursday, huge improvement.
I think you're going to be
pretty happy about that.
80 in downtown Denver today,
75 out of the airport where we sit now.
Just enough moisture that
with heating of the day,
we're tracking a couple of hit and miss
thunderstorms over elevated terrain.
Denver stays dry tonight,
but not tomorrow.
Storms make a comeback tomorrow.
Some of them could be strong and
temperatures will continue to be quite
warm for the remainder of the week.
But this time tomorrow night we might be
talking about a little bit of wind and hail.
Dry evening, now,
70s, all the way.
Through the dinner hour and
coming up in main weather,
a hazy, warm and dry evening,
the forecast for that Canadian wildfire
smoke and when it's out of here.
And we're going to talk about
the storm forecast for Wednesday
and for Thursday and for Friday.
It was so shocking and so wrong, and I
hope to God this just saves someone else.
Christian Glass's parents say.
The biggest police misconduct case.
In Colorado, history helps them
do what they've been trying to do
all along clear their son's name.
Christian Glass called 911 when he
got his car stuck in silver plume.
A Clear Creek County deputy shot
and killed him a short time later.
Today, Clear Creek County,
the state and two other police
agencies settled with the Glass
family for $19 million and a
long list of promised changes.
9 News reporter Steve Stager first
showed us the body camera video of
the call that got national attention.
And he was first to talk to the family
about this historic settlement.
It certainly is. It's large.
Not only will Clear Creek County,
Georgetown, Idaho Springs and the
state of Colorado pay the Glass family,
they've also made statements
apologizing for the incident and
promised huge changes when it comes to
handling mental health and policing.
Christian was in the midst of a mental
health crisis when he refused to get out
of his car after calling 911 for help.
The deputy who broke his window and
paced and shot him and killed him.
He's awaiting trial for seconddegree
murder in the settlement.
Clear Creek County has promised
to have a crisis response team
by the beginning of 2025.
The state police will train on
deescalation using a virtual
reality simulation of Christians.
Call and Christian's parents will get
the chance to speak to new recruits.
Inside the Clear Creek County
Sheriff's Office.
Headline is obviously the $19 million.
It's one of the largest
police settlements in U.S.
history and the biggest in Colorado.
Christian's parents want to use
it to serve their son's memory.
Christian's
been given this money
because he was murdered.
So this is blood money.
We will try and turn it into
good money by doing good
things with it and setting up
a foundation in our son's name.
This is a vindication of of
Christian and that's what we've been
looking for for quite a long time.
So you'll remember the initial press
release about this shooting Painted
Christian as the aggressor here,
which body camera video
later showed wasn't true.
That's why that vindication is
so important to his parents.
And he will get to more or get more of
that recognition as the Governor will
declare Christian Glass Day in Colorado
at a celebration of life tomorrow.
They'll also dedicate some of Christian's
artwork as part of the settlement,
which requires his artwork
to hang in state buildings.
We will have much more of our
conversation with Sally and Simon Glass.
Coming up at 5:00 o'clock including
what they think about the apology
from the Clear Creek County
Sheriff's Office which is one of the
first statements they've they've
received personally about this case.
Not too happy really about
how that was handled
Steve. As you alluded to the body
camera video changes everything
as far as the story that was
initially told about this incident.
That and the state now promising
to teach the escalation.
Is this behind?
Should this have been something
that that that should have already
been in motion with what we've seen
over the last several years? If
you ask the glasses that question,
they would say obviously yes.
They'll also say that they
wouldn't be here today had it not
been for the people before them.
Shanine McLean, Elijah Mclean's
mom who fought so hard for reform,
got the law change that now allows
this body camera video to be released.
They wouldn't have been here.
They wouldn't have known what
happened in this case had they not
hired an attorney, saw that video,
and then we're able to tell it to the world.
Well, you were the first to
talk to them and you form such
a good relationship with them.
And we thank you for that because
they're incredible people.
They are incredible people,
heartbroken but wonderful people,
so strong. You'll notice that they
wear pink every time we see them,
and it's because it was
Christian's favorite color.
They wear it to every court
hearing they they attend.
They're just incredibly strong
parents who just want justice
and they don't want to see
this happen to anyone else.
Thank you, Steve. Hanging Lake Trail
is currently closed due to the heavy
spring runoff that has water flowing
directly down parts of the popular trail.
The Forest Service closed the trail on
Sunday and they hope to have it back open
a week from Saturday on June the Third.
The agency canceled and refunded
all reservations through June 2nd.
Last week, improvements were announced to
better accommodate water flows in the trail.
Those are set to start up in the fall.
Get a little
extra pep in your step.
Yeah, the Nuggets have lifted
the spirits of many Coloradans.
Turns out, when the team you
root for wins, your health
actually does reap the benefit.