Established in 1993, the YMCA Jr. Nuggets is the largest youth basketball league in Colorado. The Jr. Nuggets includes 17,000 boys and girls, ages 3-17 years, as members and provides them with the opportunity to play basketball at fourteen YMCAs along Colorado's Front Range. Each team has two volunteer coaches who supervise practices and league play. The League has a fall and winter session with eight to ten games for each team. Start dates for fall sessions are in October, and January for winter sessions.

The League builds athletic ability and shapes leadership skills with the assistance of Nuggets players, alumni and coaches, attendance and recognition at special Nuggets games, and a coaching clinic at Pepsi Center. The League involves children from all ethnic, geographic and economic backgrounds. The Jr. Nuggets program is supported in part by grants from the Denver Nuggets Community Fund, a fund of the McCormick Tribune Foundation. Since 1993, the DNCF has granted more than $500,000 in support of this vital youth sports program.

For the fourth season, the Jr. Nuggets is enhanced by the support of the NBA’s grassroots basketball effort.

The Jr. Nuggets is a part of the NBA's youth basketball programs, Jr. NBA/WNBA, which are dedicated to growing the sport of basketball in non-NBA markets and enhancing existing basketball programs in NBA markets. The Jr. NBA/WNBA Advisory Council is comprised of basketball legend Bill Walton, Ray Allen (Seattle Sonics), Mike Bibby (Sacramento Kings), Doc Rivers (Boston Celtics, Head Coach), Danny Crawford (NBA Official), Sue Bird (Seattle Storm), Tina Thompson (Houston Comets), Bill Laimbeer (Detroit Shock, Head Coach), Nell Fortner (Indiana Fever, Head Coach) and Lisa Mattingly (WNBA Official).

This season financial assistance for the Junior Nuggets program will be offered through the Comfort Dental Every Kid Plays Program. For more information about the program, please contact your area-YMCA.

The Jr. NBA/WNBA national sponsors are Nike and Gatorade.

For more info on the Junior Nuggets Basketball League, please contact Doug Fulton at (303) 405-1107 or dfulton@pepsicenter.com.

The participating YMCAs for the 2006-07 season include:
Southwest/Chatfield Family YMCA 5181 W. Kenyon Avenue Denver, CO 80236 (303) 761-7530	Schlessman Family YMCA 3901 E. Yale Avenue Denver, CO 80210 (303) 757-8484
Adams County Family YMCA 1500 East 128th Avenue Thornton, CO 80241 (303) 452-9622	Littleton YMCA 11 W. Dry Creek Ct. Littleton, CO 80120 (303) 797-9622
Susan M. Duncan Family YMCA 6350 Eldridge Street Arvada, CO 80004 (303) 422-4977	Southeast Family Center & Armed Services YMCA 2190 Jet Wing Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80916 (719) 622-9622
Downtown Center YMCA 207 N. Nevada Avenue Colorado Springs, CO 80903 (719) 329-7266	Garden Ranch Center YMCA 2380 Montebello Drive West Colorado Springs, CO 80918 (719) 593-9622
Briargate Family Center YMCA 4025 Family Place Colorado Springs, CO 80920 (719) 282-9622	Fountain Valley YMCA 301 East Iowa Fountain, CO 80817 (719) 382-1561
YMCA of Boulder Valley Mapleton Branch 2850 Mapleton Boulder, CO 80301 (303) 442-2778	YMCA of Boulder Valley Arapahoe Branch 2800 Dagny Way Lafayette, CO 80026 (303) 664-5455