It took a lot of disappointing first round exits, but the Denver Nuggets have finally advanced to the second round of the NBA playoffs after a dominant performance over Chris Paul's New Orleans Hornets.
Coming into their first round series with the Hornets I really didn't know if the Nuggets were for real. Yes, the locked up the second seed. Yes, they have been playing well on both sides of the floor instead of just trying to out score everyone, but they had yet to prove they could do it in the playoffs.
I am convinced! This team is for real and I believe they will go all the way to the Western conference finals to face the Los Angeles Lakers. Will the make it to the NBA finals? Remains to be seen, but I definitely think they will make easy work of their next opponents in the Dallas Mavericks.
There has been no bigger trade or acquisition in the Denver Nuggets franchise history than getting Chauncey Billups.
The Nuggets had no sense of identity before Billups came to town. Denver was full of very talented players from Kenyon Martin, Carmelo Anthony to Allen Iverson, but they couldn't play defense and had no player that wanted to step up and be the leader.
Oh how things have changed! The Nuggets had the best record in their team's history, earned the second seed in the West and are on to the second round!
Dallas Mavericks beware because the Nuggets as good as they come in the West right now!
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