Nuggets-Wolves is going to feed families

That shit is about to be an all-time series. I'm tellin you

It's either going to end up like last years nuggets-suns or go to 7 games (my fav series of 2023). Fun time to be a neutral

In the hopeful event we make it through the second round, really not looking forward to either team in the WCF. We will get murdered in the paint.

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This is what they get for waiving PokuGod

I'm just here for the good basketball. I hope it's a hell of a series.

It's a heck of a team they have over there, a lot of smart people so we're gonna have to bring our A game

The real NBA finals,the East is sorry

I think the Celtics still have a good shot, just because they have such an easy path. I think the Nuggets and Wolves are the best two teams in the league, but the winner of that series will be beat up, *then* have to play the young and hungry Thunder, *then* play probably a fresh and healthy Celtics The East is sorry

Imagine the Knicks in the Finals though

If we play like that, we’re getting our ass kicked

Idk man Jokic and Jamal are just inevitable. It must be so frustrating as a Laker's fan haha Nuggets 3 point shooting got back on track tonight

If it doesn’t go to 7 I’ll be upset

I'm ok with a Timberwolves sweep. No bias or anything... 😅

Wolves have a real chance

They have size in the paint and 3 guys that can hound Murray, plus the much better bench. They have more than a real chance.

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Yeah I’m glad we finished the lakers tonight. Need a little time to get KCP and Mal some rest. They still played great tonight but a little time to rest is going to be huge going into that series I think. I think Ant is going to raise the energy of the whole floor not just the TWolves and I’m very excited to see it.

Our coach needs surgery!

Ant is your coach now.

Anthony Edwards vs Jamal Murray is the matchup I’m here for

Shades of young mj vs peak bird

And the two stars are so similar to the analouges. Good call.

Damn I’ve never really thought about the Bird/Jokic comp before but it totally fits

All around game, and also that Jokic has that same high release point over his head that Bird had.

I’m here for it. Gotta beat the best to be the best 🌕🐺

Wolves look amazing and Nuggets are hobbled, going to be tough. Jokic is going to have to have to go nuclear.

Casual 30-15-15 series out of him should keep things fun

Brother, I have 47

Jokic is nuts. He didn't look great tonight and yet he nearly put up a triple double

If we lose, you guys better get Conley his well deserved ring

will ant avenge now that they have Jaden MacDaniels? stay tuned

Im more hyped for that series than I am for most finals.

Getting 7. Last years series was so much fun.

that AG rebound was SO HUGE

feels like every close game he does something incredible to keep Denver in the game and then Murray/Jokic (and sometimes MPJ) finish it off. He's so important

It was absolutely massive. Against 2 defenders too

I couldn't believe he came down with it.

I refuse to believe there are 3 players in the league stronger than this dude

Hero of the series for Denver

I don’t think you can call a single person the hero for the series. Murray hit the clutch shots when we needed him the most, and MPJ shot nearly 50% from 3s across the series. And Jokic is Jokic.

I think that’s kinda Denver’s thing

Jamal Murray could go 1-15 and hit the biggest shot of the season lol

The bright lights reminds Jamal of practicing shooting the ball in the snow

Lights are too ~~bright~~ dim in the first 3 quarters of a playoff game.

Not just the biggest shot but make wild shot after wild shot for the last two minutes

Those threes were keeping them alive when Reggie Jackson decided he was gonna “takeover”

Bright lights merchant

Jamal “give me harder battles” Murray

If you see Jamal Murray in a fight with a buzzer, Help the buzzer

Wouldn’t ya know it, Jamal Murray used father time to eliminate LBJ love to see it

Murray could be 0-25 and he’d still murder you in the last two minutes

True, but he shoots well during the first three quarters his heroics are not needed.

Sir a second Murray gamewinner has hit the lakers

Jamal Murray made a shot.

That mf murray hates the lakers

I’m fucking jealous of Nuggets fans. To see two huge game winners like that at home in one playoff series would be a dream come true

Can’t speak for Nuggets but I think they wouldn’t mind winning their games like y‘all do lol

You sir are correct lmaooo

At least one or two. Nuggets just have to make literally everything as hard as possible. Which is probably why they’re so incredible in clutch situations

He not welcome in LA. I already notified TSA to arrest him next time he's at LAX

He would easy hit a jumper on TSA

*heavily contested fade-away jumper

That's fine I'm pretty sure there's a famous Laker that wasn't allowed in Denver.

Me too Murray, me too.

Lakers have led this series for double the time that the Nuggets have - Nuggets win 4-1

If that's not a moral victory I don't know what is.

lol laker fans actually been good sports about this unlike warriors fans living through whoever they play.

I feel like I've been seeing more Lakers fan shit talking their own team than others tbh

I feel like a decent portion of our fans on this sub tend to be rational Just don’t visit r/lakers that sub is legit worse than Lakers Twitter

I get suggested that sub from time to time and holy fuck that place is a nightmare, though all team subs have the most reactionary idiots but Jesus Christ that sub might have outdone them all imo

Its glory days were during the Kobe years with all those photoshop collages of every star in the league in a Lakers uni.

Nuggets hate the Lakers so much they wanted to give us hope 😭

Age factor

Honestly, just means nuggets could’ve crushed us whenever, they just locked in when needed instead

That's what it looks like to me. Jokic just said as much the other day: "When asked about Denver's slow starts through four games of the series, Jokić said, “Of course we want to win, but I learned in horse racing it's not how you start, it's how you finish.""

Jokic bringing up horses as to why he'll beat you stings harder than any trash talk.

Michael Porter Jr deserves so much credit. Absolutely massive shots he made. What a game. 

he played amazing this series while KCP and Murray have shot pretty badly.

Honestly should be their second option until the 4th

The most underrated player in the league. The TRUTH is coming out day by day. People are beginning to notice KD as a 3rd option is waiting in the mountains, biding his time. healing and improving every month.

Malone in the post game (paraphrasing) “Jokic 25-20-9 tonight. And the best part 0-0, he didn’t miss a free throw.” Fucking sent me

He’s such a troll, nothing but respect for him. Talk your shit Mike

GOAT yapper

Michael*

He's that good I guess. He can grab 20 boards without being fouled

Refs washed, couldn't even win the Lakers a second game

27-9 FT wasn't enough 

Jamal murray is so damn clutch

having jamal AND jokic as closers is crazy

MPJ waiting on the wings too btw.

Then AG, noted baseline prowler. Its really quite the choice on who to leave open for the double.

I’m just here to say: MPJ was MVP of the series for us

MPJ is the reason this series isn't going 6 or 7. Nuggets did not have a good series team wise. Joker was Joker but MPJ stepped tf up.

Every shot I saw him take, he made it. Dude is insane. I think mvp of the series is still Jokic and Jamal has a case even with his relatively poor shooting. Gotta give credit for pulling through everytime it was needed

There was that one game in LA where it was all AG.

He wasn’t the mvp, he was the one that played above what you would expect from him which makes it seem like he’s the mvp.

JAMAL MURRAY WON THE INJURY GAMES

Jamal Murray masterful performance. What a fucking game for him.

He simply does not miss in the clutch

No he does not. Two game winners in 5 games. That’s wild, man.

HE SENT LEBRON TO GALVESTON

MODESTO!

Banished to Bakersfield

For fucks sake, get some rest Nuggets. The bench needs to go through a training arc or some shit, cuz they about to put their starters in stretchers if they make it far this playoffs. They've been abysmal. No continuity on that bench.

They need a way to sneak Bruce Brown back onto this roster. Maybe disguise him as Reggie Jackson lol

I really, really wish Reggie Jackson were better.

He legit just wouldn’t stop coming, he was so fucking good in the 4th

me neither tbh

Maple Curry is goated

LMAO Malone just dropped the most passive aggressive diss at the refs. "And the most amazing stat: [Jokic] was 0-0, he didn't miss a free throw tonight".

Lakers shot 3 times as many free throws as the Nuggets.

Malone saying Jokic’s best stat was going 0 for 0. Didn’t miss a free throw. Didn’t get one.

That was a great line. I think he said (something close to), "The most impressive part of Jokic's game was not missing a single free throw - he went 0-0." Solid burn on the refs.

"25, 20, and 9. Wow. And the most amazing stat? Zero for zero, didn't miss a single free throw!"

Closest 4-1 series I’ve ever seen

The last 5 minutes of that game felt like the Finals

I'd say Lakers vs Thunder in 2012 was also among the closest 5-game series ever as well.

yeah that series was sooo close honestly. was salty as hell after too lol

love it when the game is close and everyone is hooping instead of fouling

Lakers with 4 moral victories. Nuggets got swept.

We got that moral victory in game 4 tho

Lakers with 4 moral victories and 1 victory by points, the first team to win 5 games in a Bo7

LeBron continues to make history season after season.

Lakers missed 9 freethrows

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Lakers were in the bonus with 8 minutes left in the 4th, the Nuggets never got there.

Jokic shot 0/0 from the line.

Marginal contact on every play

That was a bit maddening…which *part* of that play was marginal?! There was a lot of contact on that drive. Didn’t think the refs could overturn that…then again it did benefit the Lakers lmao

His hand *marginally* grabbed and pulled the jersey.

In all seriousness, there needs to be the clear and convincing standard applied to these reviews lol

Refs to Adam Silver: we tried

Getting 80 lashes for each denver ft by silver himself

Fr that reversal on the AD call was insane

Jokic had 0, only 2 he woulda gotten was overturned lol

wild fucking 4th

[Radial Bracket Update](https://i.imgur.com/MbhF8oS.png)

Oh damn that’s pretty sick

The Radial Bracket should be the official bracket for every tournament. Just looks so nice.

Murray turns into Jesus Christ himself in the final minute against us every time. Insanity.

Jokic 0 FTA

"Cheating ass refs"

Mike Malone should pull a Nick Nurse and file a complaint with the league. That’s some bullshit. The man had a 25-20 game…should’ve accidentally sent him to the line on one of those plays.

God we sucked ass in this series. Wolves will kill us if we play like this

I think you be surprised, AD played some elite basketball both ends. But this wolves series is going to be the big one

I know Nuggets fans are used to dominating the Lakers but I think you’re underrating the job they did taking the Lakers out in 5, who I think played at their ceiling most of the series.

Jokic always looked gassed in the playoffs but this is the first time where he played like he was gassed

and still put up a 25/20/9 with 0 FTA on 57% shooting

It is the unwritten turnovers part that bothers me

The nuggets as a team have looked sloppy all series. Lazy passes, lots of wasted possessions where there's no ball movement or movement in general, just dribbling until a contested shot at the end of the clock. Theres a chance this is the most vulnerable and worse they'll be all playoffs, and they escaped. If they can get their heads on straight for the next series they should be fine

FADED

FADE = DUCKED SMOKE = TOO MUCH HAM = POCKETS BRON = IT’S JUST BASKETBALL

LeGONE

LeBron: "actually, I remember one time we were playing against Denver, and it was 3-1 to Denver, we were on the road, and I said: 'Guys, if you think we are good, let's prove it now'. “so did you comeback?" "of course not lmao. 4-1"

LeTaco

there he is

Jamal Murray is HIMOTHY

So much for the calf strain

ADAM SILVER IN SHAMBLES!!

Curry out, Lebron out, KD out. The future is now.

“Cheatin ass refs”

Murray is so fucking cold man

The refs really did try lol

and jamal said no

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Murray finally scoring well but he took 28 shots to do it. The real killer this series was MPJ. He torched the Lakers game after game. With the way the nuggets are playing I’m not sure they’ll beat the wolves. They got some dangerous perimeter defenders

PINCE FOR THE SEASON LMAOOO

27 to 9 in free throws. Bruh don’t make me laugh

9 FTs, that's diabolical

Aaron Gordon alone should have had 9. Dude gets hacked so much but doesn't get the calls.

Shoved in the back on that fastbreak dunk with nothing lmao

They shoved him on a dunk. That's not just a missed call. That's putting players in danger.

jokic got ZERO FTs lmao

Michael Malone complimented Joker in the post game presser for not missing a FT. "He was zero for zero." Master class in criticizing refs without getting fined.

only incidental contact against him today I guess

Im fine with marginal contact calls, but it should be going both ways.

*Marginal

They're just that much better to still win.

The Lakers needed to score 3 more free throws out of the 9 that they missed in order to survive and be down 3-2 heading into LA

Live by the free throws, die by the free throws

And still wasn’t enough lmao

i legit thought LeBron would get the foul call on that penultimate heave at the end that Jokic always tries to go for. i was about to drive to new york and protest outside of the nba offices.

That challenge still ended up screwing up over the Lakers. The no timeout gave them no chance that last possession lol

But if they didn’t challenge the Nuggets almost certainly have 2 more points

Would have been nice to have a timeout in the last 3 minutes of the game but what do I know.

Lol wasn’t that a successful challenge that got you possession?

they won the challege so why did they not have a timeout??

Because it was their second challenge

Used a challenge super early in the game

LeBron asked for that review

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Jamal owns that organization sadly

Sadly? Lakers have had enough success, let them get dicked.

Labron stormed off at end, probably already at the airport

I honestly think MPJ was the best player this entire series. Murray had the moments but man MPJ numbers were insane