David Thompson, Alex English, Carmelo Anthony, and Kentucky’s own Dan Issel have all been the benchmark of Denver Nuggets basketball at one point. Three are in the Naismith Hall of Fame (with Anthony surely to follow) and all of them championed the Nuggets throughout the franchise’s 47 years in the NBA.
However, none of these legends were able to get past the Western Conference Finals. The Nuggets have appeared in four WCF during its history, with the first coming in 1978, but the result was always the same. That is until a second-round Serbian and an underrated Canadian came together to form one of the best duos in the league.