The Denver Nuggets woke up and realized that they have Nikola Jokiu0107 on their team. The two seasons that came after winning the 2023 title didn't go in the Nuggets' favor, and it came to a head at the end of the 2024-25 regular season when Josh Kroenke fired Michael Malone and Calvin Booth. Since that moment, everything changed.
Denver was ousted in the second round of the playoffs yet again, but it was encouraging to know the Nuggets took the Thunder, the eventual champion, to seven games. One of the team's first moves of the offseason was naming Ben Tenzer, who served as interim GM, the executive vice president of basketball operations and hiring Jon Wallace as the executive vice president of player personnal.