At times during the regular season, few thought an up-and-down, notoriously thin Denver Nuggets team would have a chance to go to the Western Conference finals.
Yet, here they are. For all the hand-wringing over basketball's gradual evolution into a soccer-style weak-link sport, the team with the NBA's consensus best player and almost no bench to speak of is on the verge of a seismic upset of the Oklahoma City Thunder.
