The Denver Nuggets won the first championship in franchise history after defeating the Miami Heat 94-89 in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Monday night.
Star centre Nikola Jokić was his usual dominant self with 28 points and 16 rebounds, helping the Nuggets close out the season victoriously in front of nearly 20,000 screaming home fans in Denver.
The top seed in the Western Conference, Denver got over the hump by using home court to its advantage throughout the playoffs, accumulating a 10-1 record at Ball Arena, with the lone blemish being a Game 2 loss to the Eastern Conference’s No. 8 seed Miami.
The Nuggets were powered throughout the playoffs by the
