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If the past is any indicator of the future (and it usually is…), the Nuggets will finish the season with a positive record.ĭespite the injuries to Michael Porter Jr. What can we expect for the remainder of the season for the Denver Nuggets? Their total of 46 wins on the season was just one less than it needed to make the playoffs after falling to the Minnesota Timberwolves on the final game of the season. The season prior, in the 2017-18 season, the Denver Nuggets finished with a 14-10 record. I still remember Rodney Hood taking and making some incredible shots down the end of that series… a memory I’d prefer to forget. In Denver’s first trip to the playoffs with this roster, they were eliminated in the second round at the hands of the Portland Trail Blazers.

After starting the season with a 39-18 record (one of the first times this roster had played well out of the gates), the Nuggets finished the season 15-10.ĭenver wasn’t the same force in the final stretch of the season but they did enough to secure the second spot in the West behind the powerhouse Golden State Warriors.

In the 2018-19 season, the first time this team made a real playoff push, Denver played alright after the All-Star break. The bubble was obviously a different beast and Denver played some of the best basketball I’ve ever seen. Going 8-10 in the games after the break but before the league-wide shutdown, Denver had banked enough wins before the break (38-17 record) to keep its top-four seed. The season prior, in the COVID-shortened season, the Nuggets didn’t have enough of a sample size to really make a push. The post-All-Star push was spurred on by the soon-to-be MVP Jokic and Denver held onto a top-four seed in the West. Unfortunately, Jamal Murray tore his ACL and the season was thrown off course.īut even despite the injury, Denver finished the season with a 26-10 record. After trading for Aaron Gordon, everything seemed to be clicking and the Nuggets were playing like championship contenders. In the 2020-21 season, the Denver Nuggets had an exciting finish to the season. Since Nikola Jokic took steps towards being an All-NBA first team center, solidifying himself as one of the league’s elite, Denver has been pretty stable throughout the entire season. But how does Denver usually play after the break?Įarly in the Denver team’s tenure, they were known for getting off to slow starts. It’ll hopefully be the start of a strong push for a Nuggets team hoping to avoid the play in. The Denver Nuggets will resume their season today, going up against the Sacramento Kings at the Golden 1 Center.