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During the 2014 NBA draft, Denver traded their first lottery pick (11th overall pick) since 2003 to Chicago to acquire two later first-round draft picks, which were used to draft Jusuf Nurkić and Gary Harris; with the 41st overall pick and their first pick of the second round of the draft, the Nuggets selected 19-year old Nikola Jokić from ...
The Nuggets started the 1949–50 season with a record of 0–15, and finished the season 11–51. [1] In 1950, the Nuggets were one of seven teams, including Anderson Packers, Chicago Stags, Sheboygan Red Skins, St. Louis Bombers, Washington Capitols, Waterloo Hawks, that dropped out of the National Basketball Association altogether. [2]
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 league was formed as the Basketball Association of America (BAA) in 1946 and took its current name in 1949. The histories of NBA franchises that were also members of the American Basketball League (ABL), National Basketball League (NBL), National Pro Basketball League (NPBL), and American Basketball Association (ABA) are also included.
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 .
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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 Rockets before the first season. [1] It changed its name again to the Nuggets in 1974. [2] The team joined the NBA in 1976 after the ABA–NBA merger. They first participated in the NBA draft in 1977.
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