Philadelphia 76ers’ Joel Embiid, elft, and Denver Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic struggle for position during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, in Philadelphia. Love this question. So this is only the second time the NBA has crowned six different champions in as many years. Here is the original six-year revolving door:Despite both of these six-year runs, the league has never seen seven consecutive different champions.
Anywho, I’m not choosing exclusively from the West. What I can’t get out of my head is the long road Boston and Denver took to their respective titles. The Celtics waited through six years of playoff disappointment with Brown and Jayson Tatum before finally breaking through, aided by the correct adjustments to the roster’s top-six around that duo. The Nuggets needed six years with Jokic and Jamal Murray before they also assembled the perfect top-six.
Hey Bennett, given the animosity Carmelo Anthony has shown to the Nuggets since his retirement, do you see him ever getting his flowers from the team? He’s not getting his jersey number retired since he’s no longer the best No. 15 anymore.Never say never. Anthony just turned 40. Time heals all — er, most — wounds.
Bennett, wanna play a game? … Of what if? So what if the Nuggets never traded away Donovan Mitchell in 2017? We now have a core of Mitchell, Murray and Jokic. Would we be looking at a dynasty or not enough balls on the court?Thanks for the questions, Ronald. The answer to your first one is no. I don’t care to play that game. Because if the Nuggets were selecting a player for themselves, rather than a player Utah hand-picked, there’s no telling who they would have drafted.
Now, visualizing Mitchell on the current roster is different; I’m happy to discard all common sense and salary cap logic, as long as we’re honest about it. You raise a fair point about not enough basketballs to go around. But I actually think Mitchell and Murray would work well together as a backcourt. Murray doesn’t need to be a point guard in order to thrive, and there’s enough ball movement in a Jokic offense that both would be sufficiently involved, regardless of the initiator.
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