Nuggets-Heat isn’t an NBA Finals matchup that many prognosticators picked two months ago — I know I sure as hell didn’t! — but considering how we’ve gotten here, it ought to be an awfully compelling one.
We’ve got an offensive genius on an all-time playoff heater, just four wins away from cementing himself as one of only 13 players in NBA history with multiple MVPs and a Larry O’B. We’ve got an iron-willed two-way swashbuckler in the midst of his own immortal postseason, having already vanquished three consecutive higher seeds to make good on one podium promise — which leaves just one more to redeem.