i ain’t hear no bell

OR, and hear me out, it’s because it’s a Minnesota sports team and we’re not allowed to have nice things here.

Didnt they beat a 50 win team recently? I could swear that happened

Some of you are taking this too seriously.

It’s a funny shitpost.

Why not win all their games? Are they stupid

This is a bad faith argument. In our 2023 championship year, nuggets were the one seed with just 53 wins. The grizzlies at number two had 51 wins, and no one else had 50 wins. There was a lot of parity that year.

A lot of those losses were during the window where Jamal was out with an ACL.

Clippers had 50 wins last season.

The real crazy stat in the Jokic era: Denver have a 0% winrate once the other team wins 4 games in a playoff series. Bum ass team

If Minnesota loses the series, it’ll be the only 3-1 collapse that wasnt embarrassing.

The team is missing its best player, starting backcourt and now Dosu is injured also??

Hell even before the dosu news, fanduel had the Nuggets as -135 favorites to win the series.

Frankly it’ll be embarrassing for Jokic/Nuggets to lose in the 1st round to such a compromised team.

If Denver wins tonight

This would denver 4th straight game 7 series

Also it would be 7th in the Jokic/Murray era

The no.3 Nuggets beat the no.2 Clippers in the 2020 playoffs after the Clippers won ⁴⁹⁄₇₂ regular season games played after the season was shortened by COVID.

So this is a little misleading, given the Clippers were on track to win 55-56 games that season.

Which 51-win or better team did the Thunder beat in their championship run last year? What 51-win or better team did the Celtics beat when they won the championship in 24?

I’ll wait

ITT: A lack of reading comprehension

Didn’t Denver beat the clippers last year in the first round? BB-Ref says they won 50 games…

Nah I think Wolves close it out tonight

They beat the 2020 clippers who were on pace for 55 wins. Shortened season.

Denver can easily choke and get annihilated tonight. I’ve watched them struggle against hospital teams for years. I fully expect them to lose.

Goes to show how much of a joke the regular season always is compared to the playoffs. Might as well be a different league

Even before the nba playoffs started, every nba team would rather face a healthy Pistons who won 60 over the healthy 49 win wolves.

So when you use a regular season record to insinuate something in the playoffs, it doesn’t hold weight

This is not hindsight bias either. Pistons are a classic example of a regular season team

Tbf, it’s not like the Nuggets were winning 65 games a season. They’re barely a 50 win team every year themselves.

this is a disingenuous graphic. bubble clippers were on pace to be 50+ wins. not our fault the league got shut down

So what’s the curse? Were the other teams also magically injured by the curse? Or is it only losing to Denver? And if so, wouldn’t the curse work without the injuries?

And denver is tied all time against the wolves in the playoffs, whats your irrelevant point 

A post about injuries without any context about Nuggets injuries in the series vs >50 win teams.

Nuggets been brutalized by injuries in the “Jokic era”. In fact, they won the title the only year they were healthy.

Nikola “Drake Maye” Jokic

Weird how people down play the Nuggets finals win with for playing the lowly 8 seed Heat. The team that beat just beat the 1, 2, and 5 seed. Including the top 2 regular season record teams.

Big Serb heard the white breads’ slander and subbed in the Basketball Gods off the bench. You would think they would know better by now but it will keep going tonight I almost guarantee it.

Series isn’t over

It so funny that there are people here young enough to not know why there was a shortened season or two…

Is ant out?

I mean that’s also because covid exists. That Clippers team they beat in the bubble had 49 wins in 72 games.

Denver beat the Clippers last year in the first round. They had exactly 50 wins.

Well damn, now you tell us! >:(

feels more like correlation than some “49 win curse”

denver beating weaker teams and struggling vs real contenders kinda makes sense
playoffs usually come down to who has the higher ceiling, not just record

injuries just make that gap even bigger for minnesota

Part of me wants the wolves to win just to watch everyone at the ringer argue that it actually strengthens Jokic’s goat case

Are the nuggets frauds? More on first take after the break

So they won a championship facing only teams with 50 or less wins?

Denver also has injuries

Funny how this never mentions Nuggets had way more injuries this season and are still missing 2 really good players. Yes Edwards is better than both, but to pretend Nuggets are not injured is hilarious and pure coping

Wolves injuries are a curse for McDaniels running his mouth. Shoulda just quietly won the series