Congratulations to Denver Nuggets 2023 NBA CHAMPS!
Congratulations to Denver Nuggets 2023 NBA CHAMPS! Kitchener’s Jamal Murray and the Denver Nuggets are NBA champions for the first time. The wait was more than worth it.
The Denver Nuggets refused to give up on Jamal Murray on his long and difficult rehabilitation after knee surgery: no knee-jerk reaction to a tough break, no resets, no trades, no panic.
Just organizational patience and poise in the knowledge that when Murray got all the way back, anything was possible. Anything became something special in Denver on Monday night, when Murray and the Nuggets captured the NBA championship with a 94-89 win over the Miami Heat to win the series in five games.
It was the first championship in the 47-year NBA history of the Nuggets franchise.
The Kitchener-raised Murray, who missed more than an entire season after ACL surgery, firmly re-established himself as a big-game, big-time performer throughout the Finals, and the playoffs overall.
He wasn’t brilliant in Monday’s clincher, but he made a series of big shots and big plays at big moments at Ball Arena. The Nuggets didn’t play skittishly, but they weren’t entirely in sync in the first half. Jokic, Murray and Gordon all battled foul trouble and Denver was an abysmal 1-for-15 from three-point range in the first half.
And with Adebayo racking up 18 points and nine rebounds in the first half alone, the Heat led 51-44 at the break.
The Denver Nuggets refused to give up on Jamal Murray on his long and difficult rehabilitation after knee surgery: no knee-jerk reaction to a tough break, no resets, no trades, no panic.
Just organizational patience and poise in the knowledge that when Murray got all the way back, anything was possible. Anything became something special in Denver on Monday night, when Murray and the Nuggets captured the NBA championship with a 94-89 win over the Miami Heat to win the series in five games.
It was the first championship in the 47-year NBA history of the Nuggets franchise.
The Kitchener-raised Murray, who missed more than an entire season after ACL surgery, firmly re-established himself as a big-game, big-time performer throughout the Finals, and the playoffs overall.
He wasn’t brilliant in Monday’s clincher, but he made a series of big shots and big plays at big moments at Ball Arena. The Nuggets didn’t play skittishly, but they weren’t entirely in sync in the first half. Jokic, Murray and Gordon all battled foul trouble and Denver was an abysmal 1-for-15 from three-point range in the first half.
And with Adebayo racking up 18 points and nine rebounds in the first half alone, the Heat led 51-44 at the break.
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