The Starting Lineup

Turn on the game!

Three must-see events this week:

1. MLB All-Star Game (6 p.m. Tuesday, Fox) — Hunter Goodman is a feel-good story in a feel-bad Rockies season and should get multiple at-bats, Rockies writer Kevin Henry predicts.

2. British Open, first round (2 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Thursday, USA Network) — Shane Lowry won the 2019 Open at Royal Portrush. Our pick? Rory McIlroy, a proud local who once shot 61 there.

3. Nuggets vs. Los Angeles Clippers, NBA Summer League (9 p.m. Thursday, ESPN2) — Keep an eye on E.J. Liddell, a former All-Big Ten pick at Ohio State who’s still only 24 years old.

Numbers game

$822 million — Spent by reigning NBA champion Oklahoma City on contract extensions for its three-player core of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Chet Holmgren and Jalen Williams

Box office

Sold out — Tickets for Broncos training camp, which starts July 25, but don’t fret. Unused tickets can be returned up to 30 minutes before each practice and scooped up at Ticketmaster.

On this day

Feb. 13, 2021: The All-Star Game was held in Denver, which landed the showcase when MLB stole the game from Atlanta to protest Georgia’s “restrictive” voting laws. As I wrote then in a smart column, the move was political grandstanding; the state of Georgia soon set records for voter turnout. Good on Atlanta for hosting a game Tuesday it deserved in 2021.

They said it

“It’s funny, I think people forget that we had DeMarcus Cousins years back, and this will be the first time I think we have our backup (center) with a similar skill set style to Nikola (Jokic).”

—Nuggets coach David Adelman, via ESPN, suggesting Jonas Valanciunas will be a Nugget