Denver Nuggets not a Cinderella team, belong with Lakers and Cavaliers

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Michael Wilbon, writing in the Washington Post, says the Denver Nuggets are ‘every bit’ the equal of the Lakers and Cleveland Cavaliers.

‘The only thing Denver doesn’t have is pedigree,’ Wilbon writes. ‘The Lakers have Kobe, the Cavaliers have LeBron. The Nuggets try to convince anybody who’ll listen that they’re a team full of reclamation projects, and perhaps they are, which is what makes their appearance in the Western Conference finals, which begin Tuesday night in Los Angeles, such a great playoff contrast.’

He doesn’t go so far as it pick the Nuggets to beat the Lakers, but it definitely wouldn’t surprise him.

-- Randy Harvey