They defeat the Miami Heat in game 5 behind Jokic’s 28/16 on 12-16 shots.
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 Denver! Love seeing a small market team win it all, very happy for both Murray and Jokic.
Congrats Denver!!
The job is done, we can go home now
That shit was hilarious from Jokic.
Lolwut did he say that
he was getting interviewed about becoming a champion and he was like we can finally go home.
Man just wants to go back home and play with his horses. Can’t blame him for that.
Long time Nuggets fan. This run by Jokic is insane. and I think will get even better over the next few years.
I was hoping the Heat would win but I’m really happy for Joker, he really earned it. Plus of course I’m super happy for Jamal Murray too.
Had a blast following the game day thread, I have a good feeling about this Lemmy community!
Just hope there’s any way at all we can keep Brucey around?
I hope so too. I feel like they will be able to make it work
This run by Jokic has been something special, and the Heat’s run was pretty awesome too, even if they took out my Knicks on the way.
Well, at least we were vindicated!
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.
What Butler was doing was kinda suspect though, tbh. Props to the Nuggets, but if the Butler just chilled out over that 6-3 minute mark I bet the Heat could’ve taken this one.
Adam Silver bout to drop the next installment in the Ja Morant saga now that this is done.
Almost forgot all about Ja
Ja was hoping everyone else did, too
Man it’s great to see a team win for the first time ever! Congrats to Denver! Great ending to the season!
Grats to the nuggs! Always been more of a college football fan, but went to college @ CU and fell in love with all three teams (broncos, nuggets, avs) and brought them home with me… been a really cool last 10 years to see so many championships out of Denver.
Man what a joy this series was! This is the first time in a long while I’ve taken the time to watch playoff games beyond just highlights (mostly due to timezone reasons), and it was definitely worth it. Congrats to the Nuggets!
