Blizzard postpones Suns-Nuggets game

Less than 24 hours after acquiring Allen Iverson, the Denver Nuggets postponed their game Wednesday night against Phoenix because of a snowstorm that snarled traffic, closed the airport and forced the governor to declare a state of emergency. No makeup date had been set.

Denver faced the prospect of playing the Suns, on a 15-game winning streak, without Carmelo Anthony and J.R. Smith (suspended), Andre Miller and Joe Smith (traded), or Iverson, who hadn’t arrived because of weather and other logistics.

It is unusual for the league to call off a game when both teams and the officials are all in town, as was the case Wednesday. Denver’s next game is Friday at home against Sacramento.

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Former coach Larry Brown, acting as an unofficial advisor to the Philadelphia 76ers and team President Billy King, could return to the organization he led to the 2001 NBA Finals.

“We will certainly continue to talk, but at this point, we are not sure if anything official will come of it,” King said in an e-mail to the Associated Press.

Brown’s agent, Joe Glass, was coy, saying, “However it’s going to be characterized, will come out in the next couple of days.”

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Clearing the way for major pro sports to return to Brooklyn for the first time since the Dodgers left in 1957, New Jersey Nets owner Bruce Ratner’s $4 billion redevelopment project was approved unanimously by the state Public Authorities Control Board.

The project will feature a basketball arena, office towers and thousands of apartments. If it proceeds as planned, the Nets would play their first season in Brooklyn in 2009-10.