Patience - a painful virtue with this Nuggets contender

Photo by Garrett Ellwood/NBAE via Getty Images“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” St. Augustine wrote it 1600 years ago, and highlighted it in opposition to our baser natures. Patience helps us fight our venal desires to see a dunk from Michael Porter Jr. immediately, and on replay - though why one would want to fight that desire, I don’t know. As fans we want it all - and we want it all now.

One of the enemies of patience that St. Augustine didn’t list was expectation. Nuggets fans have huge expectations for this team, as does the national media for the first time in a very long time. Neither the fans nor the team has had to cope with being a front-runner yet, and the transition from…