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The National Basketball Association Denver Nuggets professional basketball team has called the Mile High City home since 1967, when they played in the old American Basketball Association. At the time, they were known as the Denver Rockets, though they would take on the “Nuggets” nickname in 1974, two years prior to their joining the NBA, which absorbed several of the defunct ABA’s best teams. Over the years, the team has been a strong presence in the league, making the playoffs numerous times and making it to the Western Conference Finals on several occasions. They play in the league’s Northwest Division. Plenty of Denver Nuggets tickets have been sold over the years.
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About The Denver Nuggets
Starting life in the old ABA, the then-Denver Rockets were a perennially strong team, making the last ABA finals in 1975-1976 season before the league folded and the team joined the NBA. They would bring with them as players the likes of Dan Issel, Marvin Webster and David “Skywalker” Thompson, who was a veritable at-will scoring machine. Denver Nuggets tickets (the team changed its name from “Rockets” in anticipation of joining the NBA, which already had a team in Houston going by that name) would be strong sellers due to the team’s making the playoffs its first two years in the league.
During the 1980s, Denver Nuggets tickets would continue to sell strongly, with one of the reasons being the high-scoring nature of the teams, led first by the incomparable Thompson and then by other high-quality basketball players like Alex English (another scoring machine) and Kiki Vandeweghe. In fact, the team was so prolific in scoring; the Nuggets would combine with the Detroit Pistons in a mid-December, 1983 game to score 370 points in a triple-overtime tilt which the Pistons finally won. The score was 186-184, a record that stands to this day. 1988 was a good year, too, as they won a franchise-record 54 games.
In the 90s, the team carried on – and even improved – its run-and-gun style of play, with ballers like Chris Jackson (later named Mahmoud Abdul Rauf) and Michael Adams throwing the ball up to basket at a frenzied pace, under the direction of coach Paul Westhead. Denver Nuggets tickets were hot items in the Mile High City even though wins could be a sometimes-iffy thing, at times. The team made a number of postseason appearances over the course of the decade, though a championship would continue to elude them.
Team fortunes – and the sale of Denver Nuggets tickets – would improve with the selection of superstar player Carmelo (‘Melo) Anthony in the 2003 draft. The very young Anthony would energize the team, and it would go on that 2003-2004 season to provide a lot of excitement and a playoff appearance on the backs of players like Marcus Camby and Jon Barry, along with Anthony. This marked a turnaround from the year prior, when the team had struggled mightily to win at least 20 games.
The Nuggets have made the playoffs every year since that season and have continued to work at going deeper into the postseason than has been the norm. In 2008-2009, they succeeded in doing just that, giving the eventual NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers a run for their money before falling in 6 games. Carmelo Anthony was on fire that postseason, draining 30 points in 5 consecutive playoffs games, something that’d never been done by an NBA-affiliated Denver player before. The hottest items in the Mile High City that year were a pair of Denver Nuggets tickets.
If past performance means anything, there are going to be a lot of bets put down on the chances of the Nuggets going even farther and higher than they did in 2009. All-World player Carmelo Anthony is joined by former NBA champion guard Chauncey Billups and Kenyon Martin, and expectations of massive sales of Denver Nuggets tickets due to a possible championship are very high.
