The Nuggets have had one clear objective for a while now: get deeper. Since winning the title in 2023, depth has been the team’s undoing, as they’ve worn out in game seven of their second-round series in back-to-back years. By the end of the most recent series loss to the Thunder, Denver was beaten and battered, and even if they had advanced, they were playing with just a handful of reliable, healthy, NBA-caliber players.
It was a bad scene, and we knew it was coming. We hoped that maybe Nikola Jokic could carry the team on his back, but alas, the task proved to large for even the Joker.