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The winning choice was "Nuggets", in honor of the original Denver Nuggets team from 1948 to 1950, the last year as a charter member of the NBA. Their new logo was a miner "discovering" an ABA ball. Goldberg and Fischer in turn sold the team to a local investment group in 1976.
The team's roots can be traced back to 1932 when the original amateur Nuggets were formed as a member of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). Led by player-coach Jack McCracken, the Nuggets were one of the most powerful amateur athletic basketball teams in the country, winning the 1939 AAU championship and losing the 1940 championship to the Phillips 66ers.
Ball Arena (formerly known as Pepsi Center) is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in Denver, Colorado.It is situated at Speer Boulevard, a main thoroughfare in downtown Denver, and is served by two nearby exits off Interstate 25.
The renovation also saw the original Stewart-Warner end-zone scoreboards, which each had color matrix screens, upgraded by White Way Sign with new digits and to include new color video screens. McNichols Sports Arena was the home of the Denver Nuggets of the ABA and NBA for its entire existence from 1975 to 1999.
The Nuggets were founded as the Denver Rockets of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967. [1] In 1974, in anticipation of moving to the NBA, the franchise held a contest to choose a new trademarked name for the team, as Rockets was already in use by the Houston Rockets and the name Nuggets won. [1]
Location Ref. Denver Nuggets Denver Rockets; McNichols Sports Arena: 1975–1999 17,171 1975 Denver, Colorado [123] Denver Auditorium Arena: 1967–1975 6,841 1908 [124] Denver Coliseum: 1967–1970 (partial schedule) 9,000 1950 [125] [126] Minnesota Timberwolves; Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome: 1989–1990 50,000 1982 Minneapolis, Minnesota [127 ...
The Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA) play at Ball Arena. The team was founded as the Denver Larks in 1967 as a charter franchise of the American Basketball Association (ABA) but changed its name to the Denver Rockets before their first season. They changed their name to the Denver Nuggets in 1974.
The Nuggets suffered their third-largest defeat in history, matching a 45-point margin. [41] The series was deadlocked at 3-3, leading to a decisive game 7 in Denver. [ 42 ] During the seventh game, the Timberwolves were behind by 20 points in the 3rd quarter, with a score of 58–38.