A sleepy-eyed English bulldog that unconditionally loves the most powerful and reviled 35-year-old man in Denver sports is snoring under my chair. So I leaned in to make certain Nuggets president Josh Kroenke truly believes what he's saying: After nearly four decades of failure, sometimes in comically bad fashion, his NBA team really can bring a championship to the Rocky Mountains?
The goal, Kroenke stressed, is not to win 50 regular-season games and lose in the playoffs, but to relentlessly build a core of players in Denver, led by a legitimate star, that can pry open a window of opportunity to win it all.