Grading the Week: Ex-Nuggets hero Bruce Brown for Denver mayor! Why Brucie B’s long good-bye broke so many Front Range hearts.

You’re not crying, Bruce Brown. We’re crying.

For the record, the kids up in the Grading the Week offices absolutely, unequivocally hate goodbyes. They love puppies. They love sunsets. They love fry bread, wild huckleberries, hibiscus doughnuts and long walks along the Barker Meadow Reservoir. But man, do they hate goodbyes.

So when Brucie B, Nuggets Legend For Life, went to Instagram a few days ago to pen his official farewell to Denver, well — we won’t lie. The kids have been kind of a hot mess ever since.

Bruce Brown’s long goodbye — B+.