How The Denver Nuggets Built A Championship Team
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2023
- The Denver Nuggets have just won their first championship in franchise history. Led by an all time run by Nikola Jokic and a supporting cast of Jamal Murray, Aaron Gordon and Michael Porter Jr. the Nuggets coasted through the playoffs. Today we look back at how the Nuggets were able to build this team through some amazing draft picks, smart trades and underrated free agency signings.
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the real "trust the process" team. didn't fire their coach even after some tough loses. kept patient with MPJ and Murray's injury. it all paid off in the end with the championship.
To add to that, the pickups of AG, KCP, Jeff G, and Brucey B over the past few years on top of drafting Braun helped bolster the talent they already had in their roster as opposed to paying a boatload for a single superstar. It helped to broaden rotations, produce different schemes based on the given lineup, and vastly improve their defense. They all brought something to both sides of the floor including various forms of energy, intensity, strength and intelligence throughout the reg season and playoffs.
Do you think grett brown could have won a ship with them tho?
picking an all time great player with 41th pick is not trust the process, it is fate
@@daltonfarris Nuggets fans hated Michael Malone back in 2017/18 & thought he was the worst coach in the NBA. Look how it turned out for them.
Yep I remember how many nuggets fans wanted to fire Malone. People don’t understand how important continuity is in the nba. If you’re going to build a great team you need a consistent voice. Firing your coach every two years is how trash franchises stay trash
You can subjectively say that Denver simultaneously built another good team in the Utah Jazz with those Donovan Mitchell and Gobert trades
Generous to a fault 😂
It’s too bad the Jazz couldn’t get a title out of it.😂
Ironic isn’t it.
Idk, having Mitchell might have actually been a problem. I’d take Murray over Mitchell. Mitchell is super high usage and is kind of a ball hog tbh. I don’t think that fits with Jokic nearly as well as Murray. I know Murray isn’t an elite defender but Mitchell is a cone
@@Romanus-Honestly who knows. Mitchell might develop differently under Denver.
As a nuggets fan, I know how hard it must’ve been as Blazers fans to make this. That rivalry the last few years got intense. Credit you guys for putting together a great video going back over the years for this team, truly fulfilling.
And the Nuggets v Blazers playoff series were very important to the nuggets development. When CJ cooked Murray in game 7, Jamal vowed to never be a defensive liability again. The triple OT game was the breakthrough for Jokic fitness.
I didn’t even know that was a rivalry tbh
@@Romanus-Nurkic/Plumlee trade was the catalyst. Nurkic’s exit from Denver was messy, add on the two playoff series in 19’ and 21’ and in the division. It’s one of the bigger ones at least on the Nuggets side.
I think the nuggets will win 2 more championships out of the next 5. So by the time Jokic's current contract is done, they will have 3.
I am rooting for them. They are humble still even after winning the gold once!
At the end of the day, super teams will always have their their time in the sun, sometimes having overwhelming talent IS enough to win a chip. But the Nuggets win is a nice symbol for those teams that have a hard time attracting big names, and have to hope on drafting well, getting good people in the organization, player development and so on. Congrats, Denver!
Aaron Gordons growth on defense was the cornerstone to this champiobship run. He locked up dudes who were supposed to be impossible to lock up.
Whether ANT, KAT, Book, KD, Lebron, Butler - an absolutely killers row of offensive talent - AG locked them up. I know people love excuses like injuries or fit or whatever but their stats while defended by AG are night and day compared to anyone else.
AG was arguably the second or third most important piece on this championship run, just depends on how much you value defense.
Facts!!! AG was a defensive beast all playoffs
It it really wasn’t even him growing defensively, it a team finally utilizing him to his strengths and putting him in positions to succeed as a player.
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AG is Andrew Wiggins in 2022
Locks??? Nope he just slowing them
Gary Harris was only averaging 10 his last year in denver and he averaged 12 the year before that trading him for Gordon was always the right move
Charles Barkley called The Nuggets at the beginning of the year.
Laker fan here! I actually had Nuggets winning it all from the start of the szn lol I thought we could at least take a couple of games off but jokic was too much
I just finished finals in my freshman year of high school yesterday and this is a great way to start off summer!
I was in that same boat as a Warriors fan in 2015 coming off my freshman year
Lol this is fascinating to see my Nuggets from a Portland perspective. I won’t say that I knew last summer that we’d win the title this year, but I definitely thought we had a shot when we FINALLY got the 3&D guys we’ve needed for years. But nobody had any idea what Jamal/MPJ would look like until early January (including them). That’s when I knew.
As for dynasty, I completely agree with guys. Back-to-back is absolutely on the table, especially if Bruce comes back. Then see where we go from there.
Is it ok if I tell you something? LeBron got Bruce Brown.
Agree 100%. There’s a Wild West out there so repeating will not be so easy. The only recent repeaters are the 2018 & 2019 championships. But I think at least they will take one more.
‘17 and ‘18. 2017 and 2018 were the Warriors, 2019 were the Raptors
Meanwhile the Mavs strategy with building a team around Luka: year by year just trade every key piece away and hope to get a superstar in return because Cuban doesn't believe in utilizing the draft unless he's forced to.
Great video. They had tough climb to the summit, no short cuts like Stockton said ' You have to climb the mountain to reach the top not go by chopper' and Nuggets did it with team building. They have to keep playing well this season and stay healthy they will be unbeatable.
I was in 7th grade and for some reason I made a nuggets fan page on Instagram and I wasn’t even a nuggets fan. Glad to see it paid off for me almost 8 years later 😂
Vid is so good, the contest, the way you complement each other, like Nuggtes best duo, really good work guys, very refreshing
I just think that Joker makes all players play harder and commit to their roles. If your best player is the most humble and unselfish dude ever, other players have no excuse to start acting up.
Love these types of videos, keep up the great content 👏🏼
I've been saying since the bubble that murray is a dog. The last 2 years I kept saying they don't have murray. Knew we'd beat the wolves. Initially had nerves about Phoenix, but as soon as I saw murray hyping the crowd up in game one, yelling we waited for this, I knew it was our year. Even after Phoenix tied the series 2-2 a friend was talking shit and I told him booker and kd aren't hitting 80% every game. This is the most organic championship team I think I've ever seen
Love this channel and these retrospectives. Keep it up guys.
Well researched video. Very enjoyable. 👏
The fact its done by Portland fan makes it even more impressive.
As a Warrior fan; it's nice to see Coach Malone win a ring. And they kept and believed in him when the organization could've fired him
Never heard of you guys but this video popped up and I watched the entire thing. Y’all got a subscriber.
Millsap seems a "meet salary floor/give a vet a payday".
They just dumped Gallinari... so that leaves Jokic on a second round contract and Murray on a rookie contract - similar to Lou Dortz's deal in OKC (except "loyalty" instead of "experience").
Millsap was "prototype AG" - especially if you saw him in Utah...
You see his contract and kinda expect "20/10 team leader" - but his experience and "stretch big" game with solid NBA PF body made him really valuable to them.
Replace him with a prime version and you have more of the "lob/dunk" threat AG is now
Loved this championship Run!!!!!!!
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Magic Johnson (jokic)
Shawn Kemp (aaron gordon)
Steph Curry (jamal murray)
Klay Thompson (MPJ)
Tayshaun Prince (KCP)
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Never seen anything like it
Waking up to see a 26 minute upload made my day 2x better already
As a Heat fan, even though the Heat lost, the Nuggets really are a great champion. They were patient throughout the last few years with all the setbacks they had and have shown that you can still build a champion without having to gut the whole roster for just superstars.
Nuggets are the best bid on a future dynasty the NBA has at the moment..
They're the best team and will be almost unscathed by the CBA changes. Other teams will be stuggling with restructuring their rooster next couple of seasons.
I was convinced after last year they’d always be the bridesmaid never the bride team. I’m so glad I was wrong they earned their flowers the right way.
I think the nuggets are repeating as champs
100k is coming boys
Jokic deserved every one of his MVP’s wym
To say Jokic didn’t deserve that first MVP is stupid. It’s even more impressive than Russ’s MVP. Yes i said that.
The hate for KD defos propelled Russ’s Narrative - P.S I’m happy for Russ -
But if Russ wins that MVP in 017 if I remember correctly then Jokic more than definitely deserved his.
That Denver team was a G League team with him off. And now he’s won a chip people will change the fact they were hating on his MVP.
But Perkins stupid narrative of “Race” being a factor should forever be scorned. I’m a black dude from the UK and even stevie wonder could see that’s so so low to stoop to get Embiid that MVP
Anyways im happy for Jokic.I wish he got that 3 peat MVP.😊
So sad the heat lost, but at least it was to a great team with respectful fans. The only people I’ve seen talk shit is mike Malone and fans of other teams. Congrats to the Denver nuggets on an AMAZING run ❤
Malone talks enough shit for the rest of us lol. Love that dude. Did you see him at the parade drunk as hell looking like he was about to release a diss track on all the haters? Hilarious stuff.
Heat were phenomenal this year though, got a lot to build from and be proud of. AG was just a defensive monster on KD, LeBron and Butler this year. His growth on D during the playoffs was absolutely key to their victory.
I know people like to say Butler and Lebron were both injured and KD didn't understand his fit yet but the stats with AG on them vs anyone else is night and day.
A couple key moves though and Heat are gonna be beasts in the east next year.
@@josephmatthews7698 I love how Malone started talking crap about the lakers out of nowhere mid parade 😂
It's always okay to shit on the Lakers so shoutout Moach
Liked for calling him Mike not Michael
I'm a nuggets fan, so the idea of a dynasty is obviously exciting, but I think it's a bit preemptive to be talking about that. It's hard enough to win a championship once, let alone multiple times. I think if they win one more then we can start talking about a potential dynasty. I'm just happy we finally got one lol
I have to think the Nuggets are favorites to repeat. Our core (Jokic, Murray, Porter Jr, AG) will remain intact, and KCP will be back. Those guys are all young and can improve. Braun will only get better. Maybe Peyton Watson starts getting minutes, he’s got potential. Biggest question mark is Bruce Brown, if he returns then we are definitely favorites to win another championship. It’s hard to imagine what could happen this off-season that makes any team a serious threat to the Nuggets. After the 23-24 season it becomes more murky but we’ll still have the core.
@@gnomechomsky2524being the favorites doesn't mean shit. It just takes one injury for all this to collapse. Dynasty talk should only start after winning that 2nd championship and nothing before that. That's how you get people people to unnecessarily hate a great team
Pops won 5 in two decades and never won 2 in a row. That in itself is a very hard feat.
How you guys gonna post a picture of the Conference Finals winning Suns with no Booker? Other than that, great vid, keep cranking out the content
I feel not as smart after watching this video. How is this a channel? Thanks for the vhs effect on something that was recorded digitally a month ago. Nice touch.
Great Channel
I know lots of nuggets fans who were confident we could win the chip as soon as we made the Bruce and kcp trades, myself included. Lots of nuggets content creators have videos of it, even seen more than handful of large bets on them to win placed in the preseason so I don't really understand the "one random nuggets fan might've picked them" part
I picked the NUGGS to win and I have evidence 😂😭
I called them as champions midway through the season. I’m calling them to repeat next year too!
Congratulations to the Denver Nuggets. They deserve that championship. I just wish my Sacramento Kings were like this and were actually being a good team before we made the playoffs last year 😔😔😔😔
I predicted this team to make the finals I thought they were gonna go off once they were healthy before the season started. When it was the playoffs I picked them to go to the conference finals and was wrong.
Hold up did you just say will Barton was decent? 😂
Afflalo was much better than Barton
Malone is the funniest coach in the NBA. I hope he 4peats
I hate the “he was a 6 seed” argument. Joel and Giannis only had 3 more wins and were the 4th and 3rd seeds respectively so that’s such an arbitrary and misleading statement. Jokic did an amazing job of getting his teammates involved and doing as much as possible to get them prepared to play playoff basketball. That team should never have come that close to winning 50 games and the only other person who really had an argument was Giannis and the defensive gap from the year prior between the two was closed down significantly and Jokic stepped up hugely in that area while being much more effective on the other end and doing a lot to make the game easier for his teammates.
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Remember you fore-rabbits people
Idk they might win next year too they have a GOOD team most of their players are young. They have good chemistry.
In 2015-16 season nikola jokic in his rookie year with Kobe Bryant and Tim Duncan on their last legs and towards the end of their nba careers?
I am that random ass Knicks fan who said in September 2022 I think this is the Nuggets year and threw 100 bones in a bet on long odds cause you always pick a dark horse. 0 regrets!!!
Giannis did come close to get back to the finals
Without Middleton he pushed the Celtics to 7
This year they didn't get close
I think you’d be surprised how many nuggets fans were saying we’d win the chip last year, even in the offseason. I personally took a wait and see approach bc I didn’t want to get my hopes up and then have them crushed, but a lot of people were saying that since Murray and MPJ were coming back and we now had great 3nD guys in Bruce Brown and KCP, that would be the year we got it, and they were right.
Quesorito was elite 😆
Jokic was like 10 assists away from AVERAGING a 30 point triple double in a 20 game play-off run. I must say pretty bad stat padding...
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Ill be honest, i thought 2021 was gonna be denvers year, but murray got injured. 2022 mpj and murray never came back, althought theyd of beat the waariors had they were healthy. This year i thought it was possible to win a championship, but i thought mpj and murray could need 1 more season. But there is 0 chance (unless injuries, they dont win the championship next year)
The last 3 champions were formed organically
It seems like they can win another one this year, a back to back. The Joker is just too good
The Nuggets just aren’t on TV so no one can really watch them. Even in the Colorado market Altitude TV (Kroenke sports tv station) is in a 5 year row with Comcast and Dish so they haven’t even been on local TV (only via DirectTV). And of course the NBA, ESPN and TNT rarely broadcast nuggets games, even after that Xmas day barn-burner vs the Suns.
I said Jokic would win an MVP before the 18-19 season, didn’t predict 2 so I’m still a liar though
Nuggs went thru KAT, Gobert, Antman, Booker, KD, Ayton, LeBron, AD, Jimmy, and Bam. Like wtfffffff that’s insane
Seeing Blazers fans forced to acknowledge the greatness of the Nuggets might be one of the sweetest parts of this title as a Colorado native living in the PNW
“Not as a six seed” SHUT UP WITH THAT
Lower voice dude hates Jokić I stg
Yes! 17:59 24:12 10:56
Does Bones get/accept a ring?
Man if only they weren’t injured badly for the 2021 and 2022 seasons
I hope the Nuggets organization do what the Spurs organization did with Coach Pop and Tim. I think Coach Mike and Jokic has the same relationship as Coach Pop and Tim
So we not gon talk about that big ass herpie on jokers lip in that rookie pic
As a Raptors fan, since 2020 I knew the Nuggets were gonna gét a chip soon
I believe we as fans were robbed of what could’ve been, the greatest season ever played by a center. Jokić shut down the last month and a half because of the race baiting in the MVP vote.Anyone that watched the team all year understands this. He would have played to stay in the first seed.However,The NBA was robbed by a racist / anti Jokić narrative .
I remember watching the da MPJ draft and saying YES MY KNICKS JUST GOT THE STEAL OF THE DRAFT!!! and then we draft Kevin Knox II and I was so CONFUSED AND PISSED 😡😡😡
12:54 blazer fans sure are traumatized of blowing double digits leads it seems.
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Lakers might have gotten swept. But every game came down to the last possession or final minute
weirdest sweep I've ever seen
"They managed to hold Jokic to only 4 assists. I mean, he got 41 points..."
The Gordon/Harris trade conversation is wild to me. Nuggets fans love Gary but the dude was already falling apart. He had so many health issues including his hips, he just couldn't be that player he was (if he stayed healthy he's probably better than KCP).
If your gonna say jokic didn't deserve 2022 name a better MVP candidate that year and don't say embiid
Yo, great video, you got yourself a new sub. I just released a super similar video on the same day on my channel, it was interesting to see the differences in how we laid the story out!
even tho the nugs swept my lakers...it was cool to see them win the chip...its great to see any franchise win their 1st and dont worry...we comin for them this year
I picked the nuggets to win 5 seconds after the warriors won the final. Shoulda put some money on it smh
Bet you in another year, this team would look like a team that’s “unfair” when they contend for another championship. It’s going to be hilarious how much they are hated compared to how much they loved right now.
Haha loved the good old days where portland fans really thought they are on our lvl.
More like 56 because the ABA counts and they didn't win in the ABA either.
The Blazers have not been the same since Paul Allen died. Give the team to Phil Knight. Portland is an embarrassment. They suck.
Bro makes videos with adlibs
5 year it’ll be the most forgotten championship since Portland won in the 70s
nobody was picking the Nuggets, are you serious? Most of the Nugget fans made fortune betting on them...
Mike Brown is a better coach than Mike Malone.
4:39 Yes, it was. I didn’t even like it at the time. This is why you don’t gut your entire team for ONE PLAYER, even if he is a star.
The Knicks shouldn't have re-signed him. SMH. Idiots.
Stop bashing!! it’s the system!!! You guys simply don’t no basketball at all
Jokic didn’t deserve MVP as the 6th seed. This year was a much better argument
He did but ok
So bassicaly he hating on Jokic won the MVP and deserve to win it he did crazy in regular sesson in 2022 said oh the Nuggets was six but jokic caring the team to the playoffs yet dont hate Embiid won the WokEMVP in 2023 and Russel westbrock won it in 2017 the OKC bareky made the playoffs came in six also outch rent free at it funiest 😂😂😢i wonder why damm why Jokic and the Nuggets is been hate for nothing 😂😂😂