I was born on October 5th, 1975 - exactly 20 days before the 1975-76 Denver Nuggets made their home debut in Denver's brand new McNichols Sports Arena. That season was also the franchise's second as the "Nuggets" (having been named the Denver Rockets from 1967-68 until 1974-75) and what would end up being their final season as a member of the long-since-defunct American Basketball Association, or ABA. In fact, my mother loves to tell the story about me as a newborn being home for just a few weeks when, rather than stay home to watch over me, she elected to join my father at a Nuggets game and left me with my grandmother for several hours.
40 years of being a Denver Nuggets fan ...
