DENVER — The King is dead. Long live the Joker.
On a spring night in Colorado when human triple-double machine Nikola Jokic was large and in charge, while a muffed dunk reminded LeBron James what a drag it can be to grow old, the young guns from Denver outlasted the Slowtime Lakers, 108-103, and seized control of the Western Conference finals.
And maybe, just maybe, the gritty little Nuggets flipped the narrative.
