Zach Lowe, thank you for joining me, in spite of being among those who were called out by name, by Jamal Murray, immediately after that Nuggets Game 7 win over the Clippers.

You got Shaq, you got Charles, you got, I think Zach Lowe's his name. I don't even know.

Stephen A, all, y'all. better start giving this team some damn respect.

Tell me what it's like to discover that your name somehow escapes the mouth of Jamal Murray at the podium.

And you realize you're somehow on this bulletin board for the Denver Nuggets?

I went to bed shortly after the game because I didn't have to write about the game.

And I was very tired.

And I woke up at like five

because my kid made a noise or something.

I was like, oh, let me just check what time it is.

And I looked at my phone

and it was like 34 text messages

and like a million Twitter notifications.

And I was like, huh, did LeBron say something, like, weird about the Nuggets?

Did Kauai, like, open up and, like, say something crazy?

I'm like, oh, no, no, that's not it at all.

Jamal Murray called me out.

And I don't even know why.

That day, I had written an article before Game 7 about the toughness and resiliency of the Denver Nuggets.

So many NBA fans and analysts are guilty of the same sin, underestimating the Denver Nuggets.

Today, as the Nuggets head into the Western Conference finals against the Lakers,

ESPN senior NBA writer Zach Lowe explores how Denver's dynamic duo got it done,

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