The Denver Nuggets were the Western Conference’s No. 1 seed almost from the jump this season. Their best player, two-time MVP Nikola Jokic, is probably the best basketball player in the world.
And yet, for whatever reason, it felt like the Nuggets and Jokic winning the Western Conference was a surprise. That this team of “equals” was almost an underdog to the seventh-seeded Los Angeles Lakers. According to ESPN analyst J.J. Redick, this is a coverage problem of the NBA’s top teams and stars, and the league is first to blame.
