After 18 months in basketball purgatory, the Nuggets are legitimate NBA title contenders once again.
Remember those two weeks of blissful basketball in the wake of the Aaron Gordon trade back in the spring of 2021? We’re headed back to Pleasure Town, folks. And it’s going to be glorious. Eventually.
The caveat, of course, is that it will likely take some time for point guard Jamal Murray to look like Jamal Murray for 30 minutes a night. But provided that eventually happens, you can put the Nuggets down in pen as one of 5-6 teams capable of representing the Western Conference in the NBA Finals in June.