Denver Nuggets Basketball Academy

My son has played with Gold Crown for a number of seasons. At first, it seems like a decent option for seeing if your kid likes basketball enough to maybe become more competitive at a later age, like maybe once they get to high school. It’s affordable and they have a nice facility over on Lakewood. They even have a former Nugget with a somewhat memorable name in Bill Hazlitt. But ultimately our experience with them has been disappointing and, at times, frustrating. The coaches for the, most part, are just dads willing to volunteer, but aren’t coaches per se. Not a whole lot of skills learned over the course of a couple years. Most frustrating has been the teams they assemble. If a team has a handful of kids who are somehow reaching a height of 6’ by age 14, they’re obviously going to trounce the other teams with average size kids regardless of skill level. So if you decided to go with Gold Crown, expect to see a lot of lopsided victories. Like 44 - 6. I hope for your sake that your kid is either 6’ tall or gets on a team with a bunch of those types. Unfortunately, it will most likely be a mixed bag. Enrolling your kid with Gold Crown probably isn’t with the gamble.

Love bringing our kids here. Only places to improve would be more parking and more consistent refs. Even those things are pretty good.

Worst referees I ever saw! I am a special Ed para and how my students were treated were awful. My student was agitated and escalated and the refs and employees began swearing and yelling at myself and my teacher I work for when we were standing a bit on the court. Disgusting thing to see this! WHEN MY STUDENTS ARE IN DANGER WE WILL HELP THEM. Absolutely nasty how you treated us and them. You should be ashamed

What a great place for my daughter to learn more about the sport she loves, the coaches and staff were top notch.

@GoldCrownCO had one of the worst experiences with the referees on court 2 today. Ref wearing white shoes, drinking water while fouls being ignored on plays, sitting down leaving one ref for several minutes, on timeouts and any breaks going into the stands to converse with the parents of the opposing team (obviously they are quite close), every time his partner walks by he taunts parents! And the site director claims he had limits on what he can do about it. Whats the point of a site director who cant make decisions!? We pay money for our kids to participate in these leagues and we expect professionalism and for referees to do their jobs. I wont be doing business with Gold Crown again. Do better filtering through these refs because the ones I saw today are a complete joke. And Zach (ref 1) claims to be an athletic director behaving this way and breaking code of conduct in this manner all on film.