#210: NBA Finals Game 5

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🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The Nuggets win the title, the Heatiest heat game, Denver's defense, and Nikola Jokic's 2023 season stacked up historically against the greats. With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0	thinking basketball podcast my name is Ben welcome
0:10.6	back to game five of the NBA finals. This is it. The
0:16.4	2023 season is in the books, Cody. We made it all the way through the
0:21.7	Denver Nuggets won their first championship in franchise history
0:27.2	47 years in the National Basketball Association 50 I think 56 years.
0:33.5	They were the Denver Rockets in the ABA in 1967, 1968.
0:38.9	So for some of us historians out there,
0:41.3	this was a big moment because another ABA team has joined
0:45.9	the title-winning legends of the NBA the San Antonio spurs were formerly the only
0:52.1	ABA team to do it. The nuggets have done it. And now, Indiana Pacers fans,
0:58.8	Caitlin Cooper, the ball is in your court. The nets, Cody, my theory with the nets is they got to go back to the Dr. J branding if they want to have a shot.
1:08.0	They got to get right with the basketball gods. Go back to the beautiful vertical line with the stars and the stripes.
1:15.0	Maybe everybody could get an afro, some converse.
1:19.0	That would be a title within like three years.
1:22.0	Can they do it in Brooklyn?
1:24.0	Like is the world allowed to have the two New York teams like that?
1:27.0	You know what?
1:28.0	Back to Long Island.
1:29.0	That's probably...
1:30.0	The thing is technically, my friend was telling me the other day,
1:32.6	they're technically on Long Island
1:35.1	because it's part of the landmass that is Long Island
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