The Nuggets are finally buzz-worthy throughout the basketball universe, which would be cool, if the narrative wasn’t so condescending and downright insulting to our gritty, little NBA team.
These baby-faced, young-and-run Nuggets are fun. They’re up-tempo, upbeat and as impossible to dislike as center Nikola Jokic’s goofy jokes.
But, so the popular story goes, Denver is not a team to be taken seriously when handicapping favorites to play for the league championship, because that’s serious work for Kawhi Leonard, LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Who cares what they think?