There's no love lost between the Denver Nuggets and Los Angeles Lakers as they face off Saturday for the first time since their first-round series last season.
It's been an entirely one-sided matchup in recent years -- the Nuggets have won 12 of the past 13 matchups against the Lakers. Denver's dominance includes seven straight in the playoffs, though that total is far from the longest playoff losing streak against a single team in the past 20 years.
Even though they faced off in the 2020 Western Conference finals, the bad blood between the Nuggets and Lakers began in the 2023 Western Conference finals and carried over.