There’s more basketball to be played and the Nuggets aren’t celebrating yet, but give it a few days and they will be. A few weeks from now they’ll have their mitts on the Larry O’Brien trophy for t…
LOS ANGELES — Congratulations, Denver, on your first NBA title.
Because while the Miami Heat have a lot of heart, they don’t have the horses to run with Denver. And Boston, if it can become the sixth team ever to rally after losing the first two games of a series at home, will have to expend a ton of energy to do it. Whether they tie a bow on the conference finals Monday in L.A. or Wednesday at home, the Lakers will be able to say what the Nuggets have been saying a lot lately: They lost to the eventual champs.
While so many Western Conference teams toiled fitfully this season, dodging injuries and other interruptions, personnel changes and ever-more-frequent load management, Denver stayed steady, kept putting one step in front of the other – staying in front of all the conference’s would-be challengers who might or might not have thought the Joker’s team was joking.
Jokic, Murray and Michael Porter Jr. have been teammates in Denver for four years, all under Malone. They’ve made the playoffs every season. Advanced in every postseason but the last one, when they ran into the eventual NBA champion Golden State Warriors first. But he’s since had to recover from a torn anterior cruciate ligament in April 2021, and he hadn’t again approached that brand of buoyancy. That’s why former Nuggets guard Bones Hyland, after he was traded to the Clippers this season, thought it fair to throw a subtle jab when describing his time in Denver: “There’s two guys over here who was a phenomenal talent and you know over there, one guy was a phenomenal talent as well.
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