![]() 6 Current : Losses : 1 game - 0 Away games: All time : Wins : 4 games - 4. 5 Current : Losses : 1 game - 0 Home games: All time : Wins : 6 games - 9. Streaks: All games: All time : Wins : 5 games - 9. 630 or better and likely the first time the franchise has had the NBA’s MVP (Nikola Jokic is the favorite) and the team, while young, has earned its sea legs with four seven-game series in the past two years (three of which they won).Series records : Denver Nuggets(H) against New Orleans Pelicans(A) This is the first time the team has posted three straight seasons with winning percentages of. The team has been past the first round the past two seasons, including a conference finals appearance last year - again ended by a championship-bound Lakers team. That was the only time Denver ventured past the first round during Anthony’s eight seasons as a Nugget. ![]() They again ran into a Lakers team - this time led by Kobe Bryant - on the way to an NBA championship. More than two decades passed before coach George Karl had the team back in the conference finals behind Carmelo Anthony, Allen Iverson and Chauncey Billups. That era in Nuggets history remained relevant for five more consecutive playoff appearances under Moe, but never again made it past the second round. They ran into the Showtime Lakers of Pat Riley, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Co. That Nuggets team was led by Alex English, Calvin Natt and Fat Lever. Then came the run under coach Doug Moe that included a run to the Western Conference finals in 1984-85. The Nuggets missed the playoffs the next two years. The next year, Brown left midseason, Thompson’s production slipped and the team was bounced in the first round. ![]() That came after a playoff appearance the previous year - the team’s first since moving from the ABA to NBA. ![]() The first came in the 1977-78 season under coach Larry Brown behind a 23-year-old David Thompson, and 29-year-old Dan Issel. Denver’s record in the conference finals is 6-16, and it has never won more than two games in those four series.Įach of the team’s first three extended periods of success ended with one of those conference finals appearances. ![]()
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