Just a couple of days before you opened your Christmas presents in 2017, the Denver Nuggets won a basketball game, 96-81, bringing their regular-season record to 18-15 and putting the reigning champions Golden State Warriors to the sword.
That team was still years away from winning a championship. The win was more about who they defeated rather than who they were. Those Dubs were missing Steph Curry that particular day, but they had prime Kevin Durant, Draymond Green, and Klay Thompson playing 33+ minutes each.
The Nuggets put the clamps on a squad that was 26-7 then and that would end the season with a 58-24 record and winning the Larry O’B for the second time in as many years and the third in four campaigns (and the season in which they failed, they still became the best regular-season team ever thanks to a bonkers 73-9 record).