They defeat the Miami Heat in game 5 behind Jokic’s 28/16 on 12-16 shots.
The job is done, we can go home now
he was getting interviewed about becoming a champion and he was like we can finally go home.
This Denver team looked so complete. Congratulations to them! I had so much fun watching the postseason for the first time this year
This Denver team looked so complete
They really did. All year people were somewhat counting them out due to their defense, but they ended up winning the clinching game due to some phenomenal defense.
Adam Silver bout to drop the next installment in the Ja Morant saga now that this is done.
An interesting subplot is that since Kawhi’s 2020 Raptors run, none of the finals teams have had a dominant, heliocentric wing. Maybe Boston, but even that team didn’t quite rely on Tatum in the same way that other teams before had. Since the Heatles, the consensus has basically been that wings are the most important position in modern basketball, allowing teams to play ‘positionless’ and spread the floor.
But over the last three years the best teams have bucked that trend, instead being lead primarily by guards or bigs. Going into next season, most people would probably have a couple of centers at the top of their best players list. And in the last 6 NBA drafts, the only dominant wing player to be taken was Ant. Interesting to see the league pivot so quickly, considering it was only a few years ago that Ballmer went all out and built almost a whole team with 6’7" - 6’9" guys
Congrats to the Nuggets. They in a good spot moving forward.
Jokic and Murray are in their primes. Gordon is a perfect third man. I hope they can keep Brown.
