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🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The Denver Nuggets ended the season in very disappointing fashion after a complete no-show in the first round and there will be consequences because of it. The playoffs feature many of the best defenses in the NBA and the Nuggets have to get to a point where they can set the tone for how teams must handle them on a night-in and night-out basis.

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0:00.0	The Denver Nuggets faced yet another early playoff exit.
0:04.9	This one earlier than any series they've been in since the 2020 season versus the Golden State Warriors.
0:13.4	But there are some things about this Nuggets team that remind me of the current Colorado Avalanche.
0:19.6	The Avalanche coming off a title in 2022 had to make significant improvements to their roster.
0:25.9	And eventually they got back on top of the mountain.
0:29.8	How can the avalanche be a lesson for the Denver Nuggets and how they move forward?
0:35.0	Let's talk about all that in here and Locked on Nuggets.
0:43.3	You are Locked on Nuggets, your daily Denver Nuggets podcast, part of the Locked on Podcast Network,
0:51.0	your team every day.
0:54.8	What's going on, y'all?
0:55.9	Welcome to Lockdown Nugget.
0:57.3	This is your daily Denver Nuggets podcast.
0:59.6	I'm your host, Swiper, here to talk to you about your Denver Nuggets and about the
1:04.0	things that ended up costing them this season, but there's hope.
1:08.7	I think that there's a pathway for the Denver Nuggets to come back
1:12.2	through this summer, a different team. Y'all, hope you enjoyed this episode. This is going to be
1:16.7	a lot of fun, y'all. So here is my initial argument. The Denver Nuggets went into this season,
1:23.7	what was supposed to be the most talented roster in the history of the Nuggets.
1:29.1	You had the addition of Cam Johnson, Tim Hardaway Jr., Yonish Valich Jr., Bruce Brown,
1:33.5	came back. The team was supposed to be the deepest it's ever been. They started off the year,
1:38.9	went 12 and 3. They ended the year with a 12-game win streak and then won another game in
1:43.9	the first round that a playoff versus the vaunted Minnesota Tim-game win streak and then won another game in the first round
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