The Nuggets became one of the top topics on social media on Monday night after closing out the Heat to win the 2023 NBA Finals, 4–1.
Denver’s 94–89 Game 5 victory over Miami gave the franchise its first championship in its 47-year existence, ending the NBA’s longest running title drought in the team’s first-ever trip to the Finals. The win also capped a dominant 16-4 postseason run.
The narrow win featured more heroics from Nikola Jokić and Jamal Murray, as the Nuggets star duo once again paced their team to victory.
Author: Michael
There are heartbreaking losses, and then there’s the way Texas saw its season end during Monday night’s super regional game against Stanford.
With the series tied at one game apiece and the winner of Game 3 clinching a spot in the College World Series, the Longhorns rallied for three runs in the top of the eighth inning to tie the game, 6–6. The score stayed the same heading to the bottom of the ninth, when Stanford got two baserunners with two outs.
Denver’s two-time MVP has one of the most unique roads ever to a title.
The Nuggets squeezed by the Heat in a frantic Game 5 on Monday night to capture the franchise’s first-ever NBA championship.
Nuggets star Nikola Jokic was named NBA Finals MVP after leading Denver to the NBA title over Miami.
For the first time in their 47-year history, the Nuggets are NBA champions. Denver knocked out Miami in a grueling, back-and-forth Game 5 to clinch the title. The Nugs ultimately held on for a 94–89 win after a tense fourth quarter, and Nikola Jokic was unsurprisingly named Finals MVP.
Here are three thoughts on the final game of the season.
Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray both played at least 41 minutes in Denver’s title-clinching win, contributing a combined 42 points, 24 rebounds and 12 assists.
Texas outfielder Dylan Campbell was having a dream season. It ended badly.
Nikola Jokic won an NBA championship and reacted like he was forced to go to a work party.
Nikola Jokic was the driving force behind the Denver Nuggets winning their first NBA championship in franchise history. The two-time MVP carried the Nuggets to the No. 1 seed in the regular season and helped them tear through the playoffs on the way to the 2023 NBA Finals. The Miami Heat never had a magic solution for solving the Jokic problem towering over the series, and the result was a swift five-game victory for Denver.
Eight years into a career that will one day land him in the Hall of Fame, Nikola Jokić has reached the top of the mountain. Ask him about it and he’ll be nonchalant as ever, but it’s a story like no other.
Without question, the Heat would not have reached the NBA Finals as a No. 8 seed without the services of forward Jimmy Butler.
However, a postseason that began with a bang for Butler ended with a whimper, as he struggled for much of Miami’s 94–89 loss to the Nuggets in Game 5 of the Finals.
In a rock fight that saw the Heat shoot just 34.4% from the field and 25.7% from three-point range, Butler made just five of his 18 field goal attempts.