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The Nuggets finished last in the Western Division in the 1948–49 season. In the 1949–50 season, the team played in the newly-formed National Basketball Association (NBA). The Nuggets were led by player-coach Jimmy Darden, a star shooting guard who joined the Nuggets after leaving the Army as a World War II veteran in 1946.
The Nuggets were the last of the four surviving former ABA teams to reach the NBA Finals, and the second former ABA team to win an NBA title (after the San Antonio Spurs). [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The Nuggets play their home games at Ball Arena , [ 4 ] which they share with the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL) and the Colorado ...
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]
The Nuggets were parked squarely in NBA purgatory when the team went on the block in 1999, having not sniffed relevancy since their mid-80s heydey, when the teams were highlighted by coach Doug ...
On a night when Jokić and Murray were not the unstoppable scoring duo they had been in their Games 1 and 3 wins against Miami, Denver rolled to a second straight road win to take a 3-1 series lead.
Nikola Jokic had 37 points, Jamal Murray scored 21 of his 34 points in a decisive third period, and the Denver Nuggets survived Detroit's fourth-quarter rally to beat the Pistons 134-121 on ...
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
On the other hand, the Nuggets were determined to put an end to their eight-year postseason absence. [14] Led by the newly drafted Carmelo Anthony , the Nuggets finished with a 43–39 record, securing the eighth seed and marking their return to the playoffs for the first time since the 1995 season . [ 15 ]