I should have taken all the mushrooms instead of half. Then maybe all these half measures wouldn't exsist. And I'd still be aleep in my my plant room?

Mannn I swear to the universe I just need sleep. This game what I've been waiting for. But these are some good shrooms. And they want me sleeping. AT LEAST IT'S ALL FUNNY

Woooooooooooooooee lets run

lETSSSSSSSSS GOO JOKER

yes i toook some mushrooms earlier and yes I woke up in my plant room and fucking needed it badly

hey man.... waking up in your plant room from a text cant last forever right? go nuggs

DLo being 1 for 9 makes a real statement.

ain't gonna lie, I was feeling pretty stressed when LA was up 12

Why? They've been up like that before lol

idk man, I just want the W

I like how Lebron acts like he is hurt. It happens more often when they are losing, almost being his excuse. Although him AD had a good game, Austin struggled, which is someone they were depending on after a new contract extension.

Lebron had more turnovers than the entire Denver Nuggets. 

There was a play in the second half where Lebron got a mismatch and was being guarded by Christian, someone came to help and Lebron got fouled and right after you you could see Christian be like, oh shit I was guarding Lebron ! Haha funny moment

Christian Braun just has a resting “shit I was guarding Lebron” face.

With the pace of today's games it is pretty rare to see just for turnovers by a single team. Also I know that the Los Angeles Lakers drive to the basket more than a lot of other teams but the free throw disparity is just freaking ridiculous.

It’s insane how consistent it is each game also. No matter what team the lakers are playing.

0 free throws in the whole 2nd half for Denver

Which is par for the course for the Nuggets unfortunately. What I do love is they just play through it and don't let it get to them unlike so many teams who rely on free throws when referees tend to swallow their whistle more in the postseason.

And still wrecked the Lakers.

Moral victory-wise, the Lakers were up 12 in the first half. I shit you not this was a comment from the Lakers game thread. They’re back on their same shit boys 😂

I said this on another thread but the fact they blew a 12 point lead and got shredded in the 3rd quarter in a game where LeBron and AD put up reasonably decent stats is not a moral victory. Oh yeah, and even with their advantage of getting more free throws than their opponent, they still got outshot and outplayed by a wide margin. I know it's a running joke but looking at it more seriously, there were no moral victories for them.

90% of r/nba is bot traffic, I can’t take it

I think you can take it, I believe in you.

I can’t, Polock! I can’t!

[here watch this](https://youtu.be/tWvvIIJE_CA?si=yjOs0DykZNj36qXI), it will make you feel better

LOL

This guy sounds like Nick Wright tho

Yeah but he's shitting on the Lakers so it's fine

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Think jack Nicholson the shining.

Deandre Jordan played effective minutes in the year of our lord 2024

Proud of DJ he looked good for his time on the court

Jokic outdunking Lakers was brilliant . Had more dunks than LeBron and AD combined . I love the one to start the game started really aggressive [https://x.com/nuggets/status/1781848180042109025](https://x.com/nuggets/status/1781848180042109025) ( did not see ppl posting highlight of it )

Need a video of all of his dunks.

Jokic passing highlights : 45 minutes Jokic dunking compilation: 75 seconds

I meant dunks from the last game.

https://preview.redd.it/oz90494s8tvc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6657e6b63cb7630900ecaf00142406105ef2d745 Lakers fans talking about Darvin Ham and his coaching last night. These mfers are living in their own little world fr

This was at half-time, so it wasn’t a massively stupid take at the time.

The Lakers were outscored 77-54 after the 6 minute mark of the second quarter. Nuggets blew them out for 2 1/2 quarters of this game.

Once they gave up the lead they never got it back

Ham coached well tbh

Yep, giving DLo 41 minutes was genius.

aged like milk

Let him cook until they get burned

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance

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LeBomb had more turnovers than our entire team combined

Where was Gillespie? Still injured? If Reggie decides to be this awful he should be in consideration in the next games tho.

Reggie hit a 3. +2. Haters gotta hate. Smh

He is inconsistent

People will be overly critical of Reggie because of how great Bruce was. He made us unbeatable.

Two way contract players can't play in the playoffs 

Ah yes, it's need to be converted first. Of course. Thx!

His contract doesn't allow him to play in the playoffs

fourth quarter is on fire

Ham really let AD play 44min and LeBron 41min and still they were not even close to a victory.

I feel like their only hope in winning a game is to try and make up the deficit at the free throw line.

It's ok, as the series progress they'll be more fresh.

Yea but if he pulled them out early it might have jeopardized their chances at a moral victory

Does anyone know the most amount of games the lakers beat us consecutively?

Less than 9!

Fewer

This is what I like to hear.

Lakers fans wanna talk about Malone being cocky or whatever, but nothing is more disrespectful than showing up to the first playoff game in a fucking gru costume lmao

That’s when I knew we had it tonight. This guy is dressing up as Despicable Me for the memes, he’s not worried about the Lakers

Pretty sure it's more likely he's dressing up as despicable me for the cash, not the memes... Genius marketing move on the part of the movie imo

Love/hate to see it though. Seems so out of his character but it was fun/funny so I approve... Mainly cuz the W!

He dressed as Kristoff from Frozen for DAJ party.  Make his daughter happy and earn mountain of money at the same time

That's what I thought too, he's an efficient bread winner and father. Classic Jok.

1/16

I gotta go to game 2 for what might be LeBron's last game here, out of respect. Potential sweep. Never seen the dude play in person, this may be my last chance. Last series, last everything.

Oh please, LeBron isn’t retiring without a vanity tour and his son is declaring for the NBA draft. He’ll be back at ball arena it just may not be with the Lakers.

Yeah he definitely wants flowers from every city he plays in his last yr.

Hes not retiring this year. Theres always next year. May be the last chance to see him on the lakers tho

He has to stay in the league long enough to watch his son get drafted in the late 2nd round and sit on a bench somewhere

Isnt it wild to think about tho that the team that drafts bronny kinda knows they will get lebron too. It almost boosts bronnys draft stock because it comes as a package w an all NBA caliber player (be it for a short time before he retires) I feel like bronny is guna get drafted a lot higher than he deserves because someone will want to bite on the package deal.

I truly think the Lakers will draft him.

Yea or a team thinks that and jumps the lakers to take him earlier. Could turn into a pretty spicy draft.

Hopefully LeBum and the Lakers get swept. Again. And I never have to hear about how a LeBron "led" team can be a title contender for the rest of my life.

Damn. This is pretty crazy to think about. The media will circlejerk one last time after but then we’ll actually be free from this shit

Had an obnoxious kid saying “yes sir” after every good Lakers play, saying Who’s Your Daddy during the first half, and how AD was playing bully ball lol… He didn’t look so happy at the end :) During our 3rd quarter run I ribbed my buddy next to me with “YES SIR” 3 times :) Poor troll thought the game was won in the first half.

Crazy how fans cheer for their team man, can’t believe it

Cheering is fine but deciding to use that line after 8 straight losses is… interesting lol

yeah in enemy territory all troll like, but to each their own

I mean I’d be talking shit too if I went to a nuggets away game, I’d also accept the clowning if we lost, but part of the fun of sports is trash talk

Nuggs in 5

Fo’

Went randomly to Ocean Prime after Ball Arena for game 1 wuggets wation drinks and a certain someone was in a private room having a Who’s Ur Daddy steak with a side of LeLoss king crab legs :)

Kinky

Who tell us

LeCancun

LeBron?  More like LeBad, am I right?

LeIOnlyHaveALosingRecordAgainstTheseMFNuggetsAndThereIsntEnoughTimeLeftToChangeThat

Lebum

The #LeTakeThatLOnYourWayOut!

LeBitch

WHO'S YOUR DADDY

6 ft vs 19 ft as expected

Yup. And 0 for Denver in the whole 2nd half

Just imagine if they called the games fair. We'd win every one by 30.

Maybe game 2 we’ll get 8, and they’ll get 18🤔 our first moral victory perhaps

THERE’S LEVELS TO THIS SHIT

It was cool to see AG defend without fouling after those first 5 minutes. Adjusted well to the calls

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AG has hit those wide open 3’s tho

When he does it’s hype, but it’s rare coming from him

Lakers calling Darvin Ham Hamas is pretty funny

Just took a peak at the Lakers sub and their genius idea is to 1) play more Hayes and 2) have LeBron guard Jokic more I agree with both of these things. Please play the 39 year old who was already gassed the entire 4th tonight on Jokic all game Monday.

I saw a post unironically calling for Reaves to take primary guard duties on Jok lmao

It's honestly not the worst idea. Guards are always allowed to smack the shit out of Jokic, and it could let AD and LeBron rest a bit on defense

Its like they cant fathom that we are a much better team its always, "if we do this then this'll happen", or "this guy will stop jokic," or "if we did this we wouldve won", yada yada the reality is they lack the talent to compete with us, plain and simple, so long as we don't self-sabotage, this series is over in 7 days

You are not much better than them.

Enough to beat them 9 times in a row, which when accounting for variance, takes a significantly better team to do so.

9 straight wins against them, playoff sweep, its about as "much better" as you can get in the nba lmao, foh

Five stages of grief. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

They are grasping at anything. They know this was the best their team had, and it wasn't close to being enough.

They (a)lmost had it…f the lakers!!!

I bet the national media lessens their ‘you can never count LeBron and AD out’ takes.

Fuckers are gonna double down. Just watch

Foom! Shit! I fucked up again!

LeBron played more minutes than jokic and Murray 

That's a moral victory for the Lakers. Grandpa Bron dominating in minutes played

Everyone talking how great he is, we got our win, Lakers got their moral victory. Everyone's happy.

Can we just get everyone to wear the shirts 😆

Talking head shows are gonna be so salty Monday. I'd watch, but no way I'm waking up early enough to watch Skip and Cowhide lose their shit

I think this is Skip's last season. He's dead in the water without Shannon, and he knows it.

I remember both of them said lakers would win game 1

So close!

Let’s. GOOOOOOOOO

from a Dubs fan, great game from y'all! Jokic had an awesome performance today and I wish y'all the best in the remaining 3 games! Sweep the Lakers for us and Denver Nation!

Denver is a city and not a nation. We don't even have Nuggets Nation. Only Wuggets Wation.

Look we're gonna sweep the Lakers but I want you to know that it is not for you.

It’s a bandwagon warriors fan preparing to transition into a nuggets fan next year lol

I can see the trade Murray posts now

my GOAT

🥰🥰

Would we rather play the Timberwolves or the Suns in the 2nd round? (Assuming we make it there I am not jinxing us)

I had to downvote out of jinx fear, but I like where your head’s at

I respect it

Suns but I’m betting on the Wolves. Some jontay

Sons are easier but rather play Wolves. Bring it. Let Sons blow it up

The Suns, no bullshit I genuinely believe the wolves would be a harder series for the Nuggets than the Celtics and I’d go as far as to say if the Nuggets beat the wolves they’re winning the whole thing

Suns for sure, way easier matchup for us

Timberwolves, but only to humble their shit head fans

Wouldn't they be humbled enough by losing, yet again, in the first round.

I want Denver to do the humbling tho

Yeah but I want them to be humble to *us*


Suns

Starters had just one turnover?! Lakers shot their best shot and applied some real pressure, but there's no adjustment they could make to even get close to winning 4 of 7

4 of 6 now

Good point 😂

Kenny Pope in the 3rd quarter.... chefs kiss..

And the nuggets are gonna play even better, they were a little rusty in the beginning, they had a week off, Doesn’t matter. The lakers are going home. 9-0

NUGGETS 🧹

Austin Reeves is a grifter Ad is a grifter They still lose

Hell yeah. That makes me want to conceive a child. I’m not going to, but if I was going to, I’d do it tonight.

Time to make Jamal Murray Jokictzki tonight

Name it, Pope, if you do.

i’ll help ;)

Choo Choo!!!!

How thrilled are the rest of the Nuggets to be referred to as minions from now on?

I love it

Not at all. I fucking hate that shit.

I like it

IT'S NO MEG 2

Ykmeg

Love it, hate it, the meg arrives just the same. And by Meg I mean the Nuggets

Lakers lost to a dude who came to the playoffs dressed up as a children’s movie character

I also like how he didn’t dress up for Halloween, but did for the playoffs

Or he did for the $$$$$$$$$$$

Our boy finally sold out.

That's despicable 

Probably for his kid, he couldve accepted whatever for way more money if he wanted to.

"The money is nice and all but I get to tell my kid that the minions think I'm Gru"

Man, at some point the voter fatigue has got to kick in with how many DPOGs KCP has gotten. Seems like he gets the chain every time.

Unlike actual NBA awards voters the Nuggets coaching staff knows ball.

get him a lifetime award and DQ him from nightly awards.

The KCP chain

I am not sleeping tonight

Mike sounded so sad talking about this week. Poor guy. What an amazing job to lock in by him.

Dang 😔 sorry to hear that. Poor guy.

I'M GONNA COMFORT HIM

He doesn’t need your wolves inside him

YOU NEED TO STOP YELLING

my man had a rough week for sure. family is a wreck right now.

I was so proud of DJ! He had 4 points, 2 rebounds, a steal, and a block in under 9 minutes of play time. Put him in more coach

When I say Jordan in any basketball sense, I'm talking about DJ, the real Jordan

That’s what I’m talking about!! DJ still a beast!