In the 1992 NBA Draft the Denver Nuggets drafted one of my favorite players of all time ... yet, I couldn't shake the disappointment of that Draft Lottery and how that shaped my view of the Draft Lottery ever since.
Lets face it. Denver is in one of those NBA "blind spots". With no real basketball culture to speak of in the city, Chauncey Billups notwithstanding, the city isn't regarded as a "hotbed". Despite the city being one of the founding members of the NBA when it began (the original Nuggets in 1948) Denver has always been the very definition of flyover in the NBA.