Josh Kroenke is just like any other sports fan. When the dust settles from a seven-game series, who doesn’t love pondering what would’ve, could’ve, should’ve been?
The hypotheticals are more nuanced this year. It was all soberingly simple in 2024. In a series of blowouts, the Nuggets would’ve advanced past Minnesota if they had just protected that 20-point lead in Game 7. There were no other distinct moments that swung the outcome. Just one unambiguous collapse.
As for Denver’s fresh-on-the-mind loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder in seven games, Kroenke understands how easy it is to manipulate the “what-ifs.