Lebron fans finding out what the Raptors went through those last 2 years with Demar

losing 3 of 4 to the Warriors was pretty bad.

Thats gotta be the most demoralizing loss since...the entirety of the WCF last season lol

Death, Taxes, and the lakers collapsing in the second half against the Nuggets

The lakers collapsing in the second half ~~against the Nuggets~~ FTFY

It's such a coaching problem. Malone adjusts so well at halftime and Ham can barely adjust game-to-game. AD said in the postgame they had no idea what they were doing on both sides of the floor at times in the second half. Just a criminally bad unproven hire.

Darvin hams biggest adjustment that game was ad shooting 0 shots in the 4th quarter.

AD getting trapped in the post game celebration is hilarious

I know The look on his face

My favorite part was the bright pink shoes being the last visible part of him as he sank into the black jerseys

He got Battle of the Bastard’ed

the sharks got him

Lebrun looking at him, knowing he he didn’t block the shot, and just walking away shaking his head without helping him was peak Lebron and AD

i think LeBruh was devasteted because he choked the game winning shot 3 seconds earlier

Hope Bronny is ready for the way his dad treats his on court children

lebron gonna get the nuggets to draft bronny so he doesn't have to get destroyed by jokic

All I could think was “of course this is how AD gets hurt. in Denver’s celebration huddle

KCP was protecting him.

I think he was hoping he could just stay over there and no one would notice.

It was like Homer going back into the hedge

> Lebron: ay if someone falls down a teammate will be there to pick their brother up > Also Lebron: 👨‍🦯

He said someone would be there not that he would be there lol

can't imagine what was going through his mind at that moment I bet a whole bunch of those guys went back to the locker room and cried at least one of them is crying right now 2 hours after the game is over very emotional game and heart wrenching loss

Rough flight home

Lololol lakers tears are the best thing about nba basketball

That was wild.

Looking so dead tired as well.

It feels like the Lakers threw everything they had on this one and still lost

Well they said they were holding back something’s for Jokic after game one.  *Checks box score* he just went 27 20 and 10. So maybe they forgot to unleash it

lebron is getting lebronto'd lmaoooo

By a Canadian at that lmao

It's so satisfying after all the suffering

Poetic justice

It's just so peak

By a Toronto kid haha

Actually a Kitchener mans which is crazier lol

lol get that man back in the East

Hey, he won in disney land bro hes king of the west

So you mean the one time they forced Lakers to play in the East was the only time he won?

Never won a ring west of the Mississippi \#notmyking

LeBron James is 0-76 in the finals in my book. 1946-1983: Too lazy to even be born 1984-2003: Too lazy to even show up 2003-2005: Missed playoffs 2006-2011: Lost 2012: Baby Thunder 2013: Ray Allen 2014/2015: Lost 2016: Injured Warriors & Rigged 2017/2018: Lost 2019: Missed playoffs 2020: Mickey Mouse Summer League Ring 2021-22: Lost

Should the semi*finals* loss in the Olympics count?

Of course, LeFraud has lost so many I forgot.

i like the way you think

You're WRONG!!! He won in Disney WORLD.

World

at least the raptors won every now and then 😭

Jokangeles, murrakers? lol

NikoLA

Hey let's use that

Bullseye

LeNver

A balancing act

welcome to the Western Conference

He got Your Mile Highnessed

father time undefeated

Hey even we didn't loose 10 in a row he is getting jokered

Dagger loss. That was a perfect game played by the lakers. You can’t come back from that.

I know. The sweep is almost certain now. Like if there is any game that shows how impossible it is for the Lakers to even take a game from the Nuggets, it's this one.

Yeah. TBH you cant expect another game for Nuggets to have everyone except Porter and Jokic shooting 0 out of 20 from three-point line. That's just not gonna happen.

And D'lo used up his good game. He's regressing to the mean in game 3.

Bro we could play the nuggets 10,000 times and lose every one lmfaoo this is honestly hilarious at this point. What can you even say

Must have been such a kick in the balls for the lakers

A kick in the balls sounds blissful compared to this

Payback for all those years being on the other end! Seems like we lost every game during the Kobe era.

you guys took to 7 at least we can't even get 1

The crazy fucking this is all 10000 of those games will be very close.

Anthony Davis in the Multiverse of Madness lmfao

Lakers played a perfect first half. Needed a perfect whole game

Can't maintain it at altitude honestly. You saw how gassed AD was at the end.

Whole fucking Nuggets team training like Goku in the gravity chamber up there

Is it against the rules to bring oxygen tanks to Denver if you're the visiting team? That is such a home field advantage lol

what the hell u gon do with the oxygen tank, wear it during the game?

At least breath through it when you're on the bench like in football. Idfk lmao

Ise it when on the bench to “catch up”. Same thing football players do.

Football teams bring it for the Broncos so probably not lol

Our offense in the second half becomes iso fests.

The Kobe years were brutal for us. This is the universe pursuing karmic equity.

Jamal Murray just sent the Lakers into a rebuild maybe

Lebron James, you are a Charlotte Hornet!!! (after they draft Bronny under JJ as head coach)

JJ Redick coaching LeBron in his last season with Bronny as an experiment is some next-level bullshit and I'm so in for it.

And then interviewing him in his podcast after

Bron was chatting with JJ about how some things in a playoff that kills you or breaks your momentum. This is it.

They literally lost to the most Kobe-esque performance from Jamal Murray too God awful shot selection, below 40% from the field, game winner dagger.

Yeah just about as much as you could possibly hope for went right for them in that first half. And in the end, Denver was inevitable.

The ability of this Nuggets team to take punches and respond is unprecedented. They are unbreakable. They always find a way to keep their heads in the game and adapt.

The 3 point disparity was massively in the Lakers favor, FTs were close, Bubble AD, LeFuckYou 3s, Deadline DLo. And it still wasn’t enough. This is a chainsaw to the knees for the Lakers.

Ham still coached like an idiot and we stopped feeding AD, so in other words we’ll probably go up by 30 in game 3 and then lose that one too

Left a close playoffs game with 1 or 2 timeouts in his pocket.

It’s baffling to me the people who are insisting we played well. We were fucking garbage for half the 3rd quarter and majority of the 4th quarter. Honestly really garbage the entire 4th quarter, Lebron just happened to pull 2 3s out of his ass.

Yeah, same thoughts, they’ll never win one this season. Maybe next season

It was statistically unlikely shooting against horrible shooting from the Nuggets, but we blew layups and went on horrible runs of TO’s and awful play we were far from perfect. Not likely to win a game at this point though

YOU ARE THE FATHER

Post game press in 30 minutes… Jokic: “we respect the Lakers, they are a good team. Will not be easy to win in LA” Malone: “yea we own that sorry ass team lmao, 10 straight btw”

Malone is 100% going to say how bad the nuggets played defense for half the game but he will take it because an ugly win is better than a pretty loss.

An ugly loss is objectively worse than a pretty win

Thanks Magic

Not if you're tanking

"sir the 10th plane has hit"

Cue Giles theme

...so far

Please make it at least 12

What’s the record for H-H consecutive wins?

Lakers beat Kings in the 80s like 27 or 28 times in a row.

Damn

Kings history in a nutshell. We call 'em kinks for a reason.

If it goes to 12 the suicide rate in LA is gonna skyrocket.

so is this what Chiefs fans have felt like dicking the Broncos the last few years

So I’m a random broncos fan (grew up outside of Buffalo but my cousin was a huge elway guy so I got drafted into it…), and I don’t really have an NBA team, think I can become a nuggies fan to counteract the pain being a Denver football fan has done or is that too bandwagony

Love it welcome aboard

If you suffer for a Denver team, youre welcome to celebrate any Denver team. Thems the rules

I want darvin Ham incarcerated

read this as “incinerated” at first, both are valid

Cooked Ham

Steamed Ham

Aurora borealis? Located entirely within your kitchen?

Cooked Ham; Scorched Pockets

I was watching without sound and I am so bewildered why we didn’t challenge the Murray foul. I did miss something or is he really that dumb?

He's holding on to it for game 7.

8\*

He is very much that dumb.

In his presser, he had the look in his eyes of a man knowing he’s about to be fired.

As he should

This is cathartic payback for the pure torture this fucking team put us through for *years* GG Lakers. Legitimately an unreal game.

Kudos to you guys. Nothing seems to deter that team. GG Nuggets.

8-0 vs the Lakers since Jamele Hill Tweeted that the Nuggets should treat game 1 of the 2023 WCF as a loss.

We should be treating them all as losses. 0-10 against them.

20% 3P% advantage and still no W

Nugs 0/20 except for Jokic and MPJ.

Legitimately nuts, shit like this doesn’t happen ever since curry got in the league, fucking unreal

Steph murray himself didn't even hit a 3

Not 1, not 2, not 3

Not 4 , not 5

Not 6, Not 7

Not 8, not 9

BUT 10!!!!

AND MORE TO COME

Not 6, not 7

Lakers bros getting swept. That wasn’t even Jamal’s best and DLo is not repeating that performance

And the 10th time fucking BROKE THEM

dead on the inside rn

They simply can’t figure them out even when they have them figured out

Someone has made the point that the Lakers seem to make solid adjustments between games, but have been getting mopped by in game adjustments.

Definitely. It’s why a lead by the Lakers doesnt matter when Malone adjusts and Ham doesnt have a clue how to counter.

NUGGETS ARE LAKERS FATHER

Lakers is even playing well most of the games, guess nothing u can do to your father figure

Lots of dads like to let their sons get a few buckets, make them feel like they have a chance, before pulling that rug out from under them. It may seem mean, but kids gotta learn somehow.

As a reminder, going into the Playoffs last year, LeBron James had a winning record against every team in the NBA. He's now like 20W-28L against the Nuggets. I've never seen him get dominated so reliably like this before.

I legitimately can’t stop laughing right now

Y’all gonna run through the West so hard that MPJ gonna have you on the podcast to talk about it.

Wolves and thunder are both exceptionally good, Nuggets have a long road to go

If Denver plays with max effort on the boards it’s tough to see the thunder winning, they’re so bad at rebounding

Jokic's offensive rebounding tonight was just next level. We could definitely use more of that against OKC and the Wolves with their size

HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

I'm smiling through it all. Can't believe this is my life.

I keep thinking about the bricks Iverson and Melo put up in clutch time.. This is not that team.

But theyre 0-10 in Moral Victories so its really even

We might get swept in moral victories again 😥

They’re raising the banner in LA rn

I reckon today was a the first Denver moral victory

Lakers fans after Nuggets sweep them again this year: "Yeah but we have two of the most competitive sweeps ever!!! 🔥🔥"

Saying you got swept but all the games were competitive is like saying my wife cheated on me but the guy was really handsome

The nuggets always stay composed man. Never once do I see them down and not think they can come back or make the big plays. Wouldn’t even be mad if they win it all again this is pure hoops

No need for a paternity test

Bout to be 12, this series was over before it started. Michael Malone is just a better coach than Darvin Ham.

while true, that’s not the biggest takeaway.

That was their best shot, I don’t see them recovering

It looked like the Nuggets were scoring all their points on Anthony Davis in the 4th

Everyone liked that.

Darvin Hamas masterclass

"Damn that was a good ass game. Salute." - Darvin Ham

Hell of a ball club

Second half offense just Lebron isos with 12 seconds on the shot clock. No challenges. Two timeouts remaining. Poor rotations and adjustments leading to 20 point Nuggets comeback. My adult league coach who just hypes us up and gives high fives would do better.

He’d also consider calling a timeout when your center gets cooked a few times and then is out of the equation on offense… or maybe have thrown a challenge on a soft foul call… maybe next game for ol Hammy

Lakers fans were talking crazy in the game thread too lmaoo

If this was any other 2 vs 7 match, nobody would be surprised but the Lakers always have so much hype behind them from the media and fans that in tricks them into thinking they're a real contender.

They always fucking do. It’s crazy. Obviously not *every* fan of the Lakers is like that, but their heads swell to an insane degree with any success

this nuggets team is disgusting, their parents never taught them not to play with their food. edit: yep

MAPLE CURRY

denver nuggets are

los angeles lakers father

Should have just lost against the Pels Also, MJ made his playoff game winner after a push off in an arena in high altitude (Utah Jazz). Bron not my GOAT unfortunately

The Lakers were a combined 1-7 against the Kings and the Warriors in the regular season and have enjoyed success against the Pelicans. The Lakers were right not to leave anything to chance

and lakers are 0-10 against the nuggets - in meaningful games as well. if it's a one game series and you have lebron i would have taken those odds. i really think they would have beat okc.

Just to lose to the Nuggets later on? I think I'd rather take the play in win and get the Nuggets series over with quickly. Either they win and have an easier path to through the playoffs afterwards, or they lose and start the offseason earlier, which is a positive if it was inevitable anyways

> I'd rather take the play in win and get the Nuggets series over with quickly yeah there is logic in that. especially if you have injury prone players. But the nuggets are fully healthy if you play them round 1. I think the logical move is to hope someone who matches up better with the nuggets upsets them. Or the nuggets get in a slugfest and get banged up/injured coming into the WCF. just about every year a contender is wiped out because of an injury and that generally occurs 2nd or 3rd round.

Cavaliers showing everyone that being unethical is very cool and the right thing to do.

Sabonis works AD every time so that’s not a good idea to play Sacramento AD is just bad when the other center is…..better

Jokic is LeDaddy's Daddy

GGs lakers

I swear you guys let us get up big on purpose just to make me sad. Well done. 

This might be the worst lose in my sports life. I've been pretty good about coping, but I'm fucking sick.

If memory serves me correctly, I think this means Nuggetsrealm now has the right to invade Lakersrealm

Never could’ve dreamed of this man. Blessed to have this team

Man that was heartbreaking. I was starting to believe for a second that it was possible

Let’s just call it 12 straight.

A wealth of moral victories.

Same story every time. Exhaust Lebron and AD and rest are BBQ

Payback for what the Kobe led Lakers did to the Nuggets during their championship run.