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This is a list of seasons completed by the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). They have played for 56 seasons, 47 in the NBA and nine in the American Basketball Association (ABA). As of the 2022–23 season, they have reached the NBA Finals and won the NBA championship once .
All-NBA First Team. David Thompson – 1977, 1978 [16]; Nikola Jokić – 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024; All-NBA Second Team. Alex English – 1982, 1983, 1986; Lafayette Lever – 1987
The Nuggets went on to win in the NBA Finals against the Miami Heat, clinching their first NBA Finals championship in franchise history after 47 seasons in the NBA. [29] The Nuggets began the 2023 season as the defending champions, while the Timberwolves rebounded from a disappointing previous season and emerged as stronger contenders.
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope didn’t get that chance the first time he won the NBA championship, as a member of the Lakers team that eliminated the Nuggets in 2020 before knocking off Jimmy Butler ...
The "Big Honey" and the Denver Nuggets competed in a memorable Game 5 against Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat and were able to clinch its first championship in franchise history.
MINNEAPOLIS — The Denver Nuggets broke through and won the NBA championship last year in large part due to being hungrier than every opponent, realizing these opportunities are scant.
It was the Nuggets' first league championship after 56 combined years in the ABA and NBA. [55] Denver is also the first Western Conference team from outside the states of California or Texas to win the championship since the 1978–79 Seattle SuperSonics. [56] This was the final game of Haslem's NBA career, as he retired the following month. [57]
The Nuggets won Game 1 97–95 on their home court on a last-second Andre Miller game-winner, but the Warriors won the next three games, putting the Nuggets on the brink of elimination. Denver won Game 5 at home to keep their season alive, but the Warriors eliminated the Nuggets in Game 6, winning 92–88 in Oakland.