The Nuggets are broken, their window of opportunity to win the NBA championship exposed to be as fragile as the brittle shards in Michael Porter Jr.’s ailing back.
It seems bad injury luck has stalked this franchise since David Thompson fell from the sky with an ugly splat way back in the 1980s. Why can’t the Nuggets catch a break?
Hey, the dream of winning a championship with Nikola Jokic seemed like a solid plan. But now the basketball gods laugh at our pain.
What has happened to the Nuggets, mired in a six-game losing streak as they begin an arduous seven-game road trip, is a cruel twist of fate that cuts like a knife in the knee of Jamal Murray, the back of MPJ and the wrist of Jokic.