what was the world like the last time Denver won the NBA title?

miami heat It is denver nuggets will be on court for Game 3 of the NBA Finals this Wednesday (7), at the Kaseya Center, in Miami, starting at 9:30 pm (Brasília time). After the Heat’s victory in Denver, the series is tied at 1 to 1 and it remains to be seen who will win, now, on the other side of the country, on the east coast. But what was the world like the last time the Denver Nuggets won the NBA title? You didn’t read it wrong. O sportbuzz explains you.

The Denver Nuggets entered the NBA in 1976 and the 2023 season became the team’s first in a major basketball league championship in the world. That is, the franchise that has been led by the two-time MVP Nikola Jokic has not yet won a championship title.

The Nuggets were founded in 1967 as denver larksan American Basketball Association (ABA) franchise, but changed its name to denver rockets even before acting in its first season. In 1974, another change. were from Rockets for Nuggets, staying in the city. And since then, the team still hasn’t had a significant achievement. What has changed from this year.

John Lennon was alive

The Beatles broke up in 1969, but John Lennon’s murder only happened in 1980. The main rock band that is listened to by generations had barely stopped performing and its main name was still doing some sporadic work.

The wedding of the year

Prince Charles (now king) and Lady Di were married in 1981. The wedding of the year took place after 5 seasons for the Denver Nuggets in the NBA. The influential couple could hardly imagine the future that awaited them and that, above all, the king would assume the main position of the throne only at the age of 74.

No internet like nowadays

As much as Arpanet, the first version of the Internet, was created in 1969, it was completely different from what we have today. This functioned only for transmitting military data. Being Tim Berners-Lee the real founder of the Internet that we have today – or its first version – only in 1989. And the Apple computer itself, that initial version already known worldwide, was created only in 1984. That is, almost a decade after the Nuggets entry into the NBA.

The best ever?

In 1976, the year the Nuggets entered the NBA, the man who would change the history of the game was just 13 years old. Little Michael Jordan still did not imagine that he would become the greatest player in the history of the league and that he would mark the Chicago Bulls forever. The debut of the number 23 shirt only happened in 1984, against the Washington Wizards, 8 years after Denver’s insertion in the league.

The best of the franchise

In 1976, when the Denver Nuggets entered the league, little did they imagine that one of the greatest in franchise history would come from Serbia and not the United States. This, almost 23 years after inclusion. Nikola Jokic, now the main name of the Nuggets in the finals, is 28 years old and was born in 1995, long after the franchise joined the NBA.

The future was not far

In the Nuggets’ entry year in the world’s top basketball league, things we see today were completely unreal for the time. Such as a cell phone connected to the internet that allows us to speak via audio and video with anyone in the world, electric cars, artificial intelligence performing various activities, VAR in football, interactive television, among many other things.

Basically, the world was completely different when the Denver Nuggets entered the NBA in 1976. Now, Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray and company are on a mission to not only make the franchise reach the league finals, but also win the championship. first title in history.

Today, at 9:30 pm (Brasília time), Game 3 between Heat and Nuggets will be broadcast live on ESPN and Star+ streaming. And, who knows, after this series Athletistic can’t update this article for you.