Points have always come easy in the Mile High City, from their early days in the ABA through the Doug Moe up-tempo ’80s, but championship success wasn’t attainable until Nikola Jokic came to town.
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Surprise and advance: 15 significant upsets in NBA first round playoff series
The “Cinderellas” of the NBA, these teams shocked the world in the first round of the playoffs, then moved on to mixed success in the succeeding round.
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- Conference Finals upset loss to SuperSonics (1978)
- Dan Issel tenure as coach
- Dan Issel tenure as general manager
- Lengthy playoff drought
- Name change from Rockets to Nuggets
- Name etymology
- Overcoming 3-1 series deficit in 2020 Conference Quarterfinals
- Players feuding with coach Dan Issel
- Upset by the Warriors in the 2013 playoffs first round
- Upsetting the SuperSonics in the 1994 playoffs first round