Bennett Durando is the Colorado Avalanche beat writer for The Denver Post. Before taking on his first NHL beat, he covered SEC football and other sports for five years, first at his alma mater, Missouri, for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Columbia Missourian, then Auburn for the Montgomery Advertiser.
Michael Porter Jr. of the Denver Nuggets holds the title trophy during the team’s championship parade in downtown Denver on Thursday, June 15, 2023. A new NBA season means a new cycle of opining eight months into the future from basketball fans and talking heads.
There are 82 games to play, but the question is impossible to avoid: Who will win the title? Here are five reasons the Nuggets will — and won’t — repeat as champions.As busy as this offseason was around the NBA, the Nuggets still hold the highest card in the league. Not one team acquired a big man convincing enough to slow down Nikola Jokic. Kristaps Porzingis is all offense. Jusuf Nurkic? You can bet the two-time MVP isn’t getting clamped by his predecessor, however motivated Nurkic may be.
Building a dynasty at this current moment in NBA history is simply a high burden. There have been five different NBA champions in as many years and four different Western Conference champs in the last four seasons. Then take into account that every team in the West is either a current contender or decorated with genuinely promising young players, and you have a recipe for wearing down a defending champ.
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