Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke stands on the brink of success with the Denver Nuggets after a stunning Western Conference finals win in the National Basketball Association.
Kroenke and his son, Arsenal co-chairman Josh, watched the Nuggets beat the Los Angeles Lakers 113-111 in LA to sweep the series 4-0 and claim a first Western Conference championship and with it a debut appearance in the NBA finals. The Lakers, part-owned by Chelsea co-owner Todd Boehly, were no match for an inspired Nuggets side led by Nikola Jokic, who put up 30 points and claimed 14 rebounds and 14 assists to register his fifth triple-double in the past six games.
Kroenke will now watch his side go head-to-head with either the Miami Heat or Boston Celtics, with the former 3-0 up in the series and expected to book their place in the NBA finals overnight. Key to the Nuggets' run to the finals has been the form of star player Jokic, who now has the record for the most triple-doubles ever in a play-off run having notched his eighth against the Lakers.
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Jokic and the Nuggets outfought a Lakers team with all-time great LeBron James and Anthony Davis in its squad and with Jamal Murray and Aaron Gordon also on form, they managed to overturn a fifteen-point deficit and secure the win. "We don't give up," Jokic said, ahead of an NBA finals series that stands to put the Nuggets on the map and give the team a massive financial boost.
"I've been saying this the last five years, when we were bad, we were good, we don't give up - that's what happened today. "They jumped on us in the first half, they were aggressive, they were scoring easy.
"But in the second half, we turned the page and everybody was stepping up."
Jokic is now delivering on the whopping $264m 'supermax' contract he signed with the Nuggets last year, a five-year extension to his current terms that locks him in to the team until 2028. As for Kroenke, he is enjoying success with his teams having seen the Colorado Avalanche win ice hockey's Stanley Cup last season.
Arsenal's title challenge petered out this campaign but they are back in the Champions League after a six-year absence from Europe's premier club competition.
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