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As far as Denver was concerned, the journey had been anything but easy.

Aside from a relatively comfortable first-round matchup against the Suns, every opponent they faced after that had been terrifyingly strong.

There were the Golden State Warriors, with Stephen Curry's absurd shooting threat and their superb team chemistry; the defending champion Oklahoma Thunder, led by the League's current number one player, Chen Xi, who scored with ease and was unstoppable when he caught fire; and the Brooklyn Nets, boasting one of the League's top unicorns and the perimeter's ultimate weapon, Kevin Durant.

Every one of those teams was built to contend for a championship.

To battle through all those teams, make it to the Finals, win the damn championship in a commanding 4–2 series, and lift the Larry O'Brien Trophy that countless players dreamed of winning—

For the entire Nuggets team, it was unquestionably a moment of enormous significance.

And after lifting the championship trophy, the Nuggets' star player, Nikola Jokic, had found some consolation in what he'd lost.

Though he'd lost the MVP race to Chen, he'd still ended up lifting the trophy representing the highest team honor in basketball, with Adam Silver beaming beside him.

The Bill Russell Trophy—the FMVP award.

In the Finals, Jokic averaged 27.8 points, 14.6 rebounds, 8.5 assists, 0.8 steals, and 0.6 blocks per game. There was no question he was the team's number one player.

The FMVP trophy was certainly well deserved.

It was definitely worth more than Brown's, Parker's, or Iguodala's, anyway~~

With that FMVP trophy in hand, Jokic had also indisputably become the greatest player in Nuggets history.

After all... like the Thunder before them, the Nuggets didn't have much to show for their past.

Aside from Jokic, the team's second-greatest player was Alex English from the 1980s, whose