NuggLife is dead. Long live NuggLife.
The popular phrase that embodies everything about being a Denver Nuggets fan, NuggLife represents what Nuggets fans believe will always happen as soon as hope begins to form for a franchise fraught with failure. The Nuggets were never supposed to be here. They’re the Nuggets. They always find a way to mess these things up. That’s who they are and what they’ve always been.
But in Game 5 against the Utah Jazz, the Denver Nuggets flipped a switch.
After hearing about how the Nuggets were cooked against the Jazz, that they couldn’t defend Donovan Mitchell, that Rudy Gobert was better than Nikola Jokic, it was getting to a dire place.