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League commissioner George Mikan suggested moving the team to Denver. However, Trindle was unable to find a suitable arena in the Kansas City area. The current franchise traces its roots to 1967, when one of the American Basketball Association (ABA)'s charter franchises was awarded to a group in Kansas City, Missouri, headed by Southern California businessman James Trindle. This franchise's records and statistics remain separate from the modern-day Denver Nuggets.īyron Beck, a University of Denver alumnus, is shown wearing the ' Denver Rockets' uniform The Denver Nuggets played the 1949–50 season as one of the charter NBA teams before folding.

Following that season, the NBL merged with the Basketball Association of America (BAA), with the newly unified circuit named the National Basketball Association to reflect the merger. Prior to the 1948–49 National Basketball League (NBL) season, the original Denver Nuggets were founded. The Nuggets play their home games at Ball Arena, which they share with the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL) and the Colorado Mammoth of the National Lacrosse League (NLL).įranchise history 1967–1969: Franchise background and founding The Nuggets were the last of the four surviving former ABA teams to reach the NBA Finals, and the second former ABA team to win an NBA title (after the San Antonio Spurs). In 2023, the Nuggets, led by Nikola Jokić and Jamal Murray, reached their first NBA Finals and defeated the Miami Heat to capture the franchise's first NBA championship. The team joined the NBA in 1976 after the ABA–NBA merger and qualified for the NBA playoffs in nine consecutive seasons in the 1980s and ten consecutive seasons from 2004 to 2013. The team has had some periods of success, qualifying for the ABA Playoffs in every season of the ABA's existence, losing in the 1976 ABA Finals to the New York Nets. After the name change, the Nuggets played for the final ABA Championship title in 1976, losing to the New York Nets. The Rockets then changed their name again to the Nuggets in 1974. The team was founded as the Denver Larks in 1967 as a charter franchise of the American Basketball Association (ABA) but changed their name to the Rockets before the first season. The Nuggets compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference.

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The Denver Nuggets are an American professional basketball team based in Denver.

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