With the 2018-19 Denver Nuggets on pace to win 56 regular season games and having a thrillingly fun time whilst doing so, it got me thinking: is this the greatest regular season team in the Nuggets NBA franchise history?
Wanting to make sure a column on said topic had not yet been written, I Googled “best regular season team in Denver Nuggets history” and found that yours truly had written this exact same column in 2013, as that season’s 57-win Nuggets team was wrapping up its historic regular season run.
D’oh!
Having re-read my 2013 column, I was clearly caught up in the euphoria of that season’s regular season record-setting run and gave the 2012-13 team top billing as the franchise’s best NBA participant ever, citing that team’s ability to overcome injuries (sound familiar?