In the minute, it sure felt like the Los Angeles Lakers pressed Nikola Jokic’s Denver Nuggets to their outright limitations throughout their first-round series in this past NBA playoffs.
Even in a five-game series, 2023 champ Denver looked as if it was running on fumes at times versus LeBron James and Anthony Davis. But when you win in 5 videogames — thanks to 2 buzzer-beaters by Jamal Murray — such criticisms are quickly neglected.
Not according to ex-Nuggets shooting guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope.
On the newest episode of The Draymond Green Show, Caldwell-Pope confessed that the Nuggets were out of gas by the time they had to face the Lakers. So much so that they had absolutelynothing left in the tank and were dipping into their reserves simply to beat a resurgent James and Davis.
Lakers fans, I’m so sorry (not truly) to have resumed this wound:
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope on why the Denver Nuggets hadahardtime in the playoffs:
“We had no gas. We felt like