Nuggets’ Michael Malone for Coach of the Year

The Nuggets’ 2018-19 season has been an unprecedented success on many levels.

The team reached 50 wins quicker than any other team in franchise history, an impressive feat considering just how young the roster is.

There could have been a very different outcome for this team, especially after April 11, 2018.

It was on that date that the Nuggets saw their playoffs hopes end on a heartbreaking overtime loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Devastating setbacks can cripple a young team, but Malone found a way to use that defeat as an impetus to expect even more this season.

The aim for the 2018-19 campaign, internally, would be to make the postseason a formality. The players took that message to…