“NBA Finals 2023: Denver Nuggets Make History – Exclusive Coverage for Subscribers”

2023-05-31 16:02:06

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By Julien Raspiller

Published on 05/31/2023 at 18:02
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After 82 days of the classic phase and three rounds of the playoffs, place in the 77th NBA final. On the West side, Denver, one of the teams that have risen in recent years. Ninth in their Conference, and therefore the first not to qualify for the playoffs, in 2016-2017 and 2017-2018, the Nuggets have not left the top 3, even finishing this exercise in first place. Finalists in the West in 2020 (beaten by the Lakers, future champions), semi-finalists in 2019 and 2021, quarter-finalists in 2022 (released by the Warriors, future champions), they have finally just reached a milestone and reached the … first NBA Finals in their history. Of the 31 franchises that the League has known, there are now only five left that have never reached this stage: the Los Angeles Clippers, the Charlotte Hornets, the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Memphis Grizzlies and the New Orleans Pelicans.

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