Five months ago, a Lakers-Nuggets rivalry did not exist. And if given only the information of how the series played out with Denver winning in a sweep, one would assume a rivalry still would not exist.
But boy howdy is there a rivalry brewing rapidly.
Trash talk during the series gave way to Denver doing lots and lots of it after winning the title. In fact, almost all of the trash talk has come from one side of the match-up.
It was so much that LeBron addressed it over the summer.