With that being said, this may be the season where we see the Denver Nuggets take a massive jump. Going back to the 2014-15 season, the Nuggets have improved their regular season record every year.
Last season, they won 46 games which would have resulted in a high playoff seed if they were in the Eastern Conference. Unfortunately, they finished one game out of the eighth seed in the extremely competitive Western Conference.
The Nuggets have done a great job in constructing their core. Denver got straight up highway robbery from the Chicago Bulls when they traded Doug McDermott to for the services of Jusuf Nurkic and Gary Harris.