The Return Of The West's Sleeping Giants (johnwilmeswords on how the Nuggets and Clippers are linked by their 2020 bubble series, their injuries in 2021, and the expectation they will return to power in 22-23)
In the Denver Nuggets’ last season, they became just about as dependent on Nikola Jokic as any team has ever been on one man. Behind his brilliance, they won 48 games with a limited roster, granting Jokic his second straight MVP trophy. There was much froth about whether he or Joel Embiid deserved the award, but at the end of the day, the easiest way to distinguish yourselves in the eyes of voters is by working with less.
In are Bruce Brown and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, two theoretically perfect Jokic teammates. Both are excellent, gritty defenders, and both have versatile, fill-in-the-blank utility belt games that have formed by playing with similar high-usage superstars—Caldwell-Pope won a championship with LeBron James’ Los Angeles Lakers, while Brown has spent the past two seasons making a name for himself playing off Kevin Durant and James Harden with the Brooklyn Nets.
The last time the Nuggets had all the fingers of their fist together like this, it was 2020 and they came back from a 1-3 deficit to unseat the Western Conference’s other returning titan, the Los Angeles Clippers. Like the Nuggets, the Clippers come into 22-23 with their star core back—Paul George missed 50 games last season, and Kawhi Leonard missed all of them.
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