Denver Nuggets Basketball Academy

Great place! Clean and friendly! Staff do an amazing job with the camps. Large groups can be challenging and they do amazing at keeping all the athletes engaged. We are at the Nuggets academy for a 2nd time and it has been really good!

Brittany was phenomenal and worked with us closely for and during the Cosplay Summer Camp amidst an unexpected family emergency. The environment was safe, inspiring and well-organized. Our 13 year old loved Camp, has since told all her friends and is looking forward to next summer. Thank you, Brittany and entire Gold Crown team!

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