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“You can take the D out of the Dover because this thing is over! The Denver Nuggets have won the 2023 NBA finals! The Denver Nuggets are at the top of the NBA world!” said Jason Cosmitsky Denver Nuggets radio announcer.

“The Denver Nuggets are going to become world champions!” Lou from Littleton former 850 KOA radio host said , when he joined Julie Browman on the Dave Logan podcast.  Julie’s reaction was what really? Really?

 If you remember in my blog from last summer about the Avalanche, then you would remember the question being asked: Who will be the next Colorado team to make it to the finals? This question has been answered this year in the Denver Nuggets winning the trophy.

Jeremy Levy back with you to write about the Nuggets run to the NBA finals. I’m going to take you back to the start of the 2023 Denver Nuggets play offs. Winning the championship has been something that the Nuggets haven’t done in their 47 year existence. They have been in the play offs before, but they never have won the trophy. . They first played the Minnesota Timber Wolves. They won that series in 4 games. Then they played the  Phoenix Suns. They lost a game against the Suns  at home.   Julie and Lou from Littleton substituting for Dave Logan on the Dave Logan podcast were hoping that this wouldn’t be the end of the Nuggets run.  Lou was right again. They won that series in 5 games. It was the gentleman’s sweep. My friend Kathy Blanchard who lives in Arizona was hoping that the Nuggets would win. She was excited for that series. She said that she didn’t want the Suns to win. 98.9 KMVP hosts were a little bit sad that the Suns didn’t win. The next series was against the Los Angeles Lakers. The Nuggets won that series in 4 games. Kathy Blanchard wrote to me after the fourth game “Bye By, Lakers!.” I was feeling very confident that the Nuggets were going to win the NBA trophy after that game. Then it was onto the Miami Heat.  My prediction was that the Nuggets were going to win the series against the Heat in 5 games. I was right with this prediction Julie Harrison my former music teacher at CSDB  e-mailed me a friends reaction to the series- Julie wasn’t a basketball fan, but she had a friend of hers that was. He thought the Nuggets really had a great team. Melissa Riveros who lives Near Miami Florida said that she was excited for the series. She said she was happy the Nuggets won.  

Bret Cain said at the start of the play offs that this is the Nuggets year. He thought the team really stuck together. On the last night that the Nuggets won, it was loud at the stadium. Dave Logan said that everyone was standing at the beginning of the 4, quarter, and they didn’t sit down until a half an hour after the game ended. Dave Logan got to go to some of the games. He hopes that people notice the wonderful talent that the Nuggets have in Nicola. My 2 favorite players are Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr.  Jamal and Nicola Jokic are the best duo’s in the game now. Dave Logan said that those 2 are really special players. Scott Hastings was really excited about the  Nuggets winning the trophy. I have been a listener of Scott’s since 2004. I know that he has been in Colorado for some special moments. He has been in Colorado for Super Bowls and a couple of Stanley cups, but this was his first time calling a Denver Nuggets championship. This must have been really special for him. You could hear the excitement in his voice when he was color commentating on the radio.  Bret Cain and Mark Moser went to the game together. As the seconds  counted down Mark Moser was blubbering like a fool. He was so happy for them. Vick Lombardi asked a great question. What does this mean for the fans? I liked that question and I will answer that at the end of this post.  Bret Cain got to go into the locker room after the   last game.  This was one of the best moments of his life. Bret Cain said it was a very loud locker room. They had music blaring and players were really happy. Altitude Sports radio 92.5 radio had coverage all of Monday night into Tuesday morning, and so did  104.3 KKFN radio.  The parade took place Thursday June 15, 2023.  KOA radio was broadcasting live bright and early on Thursday morning. They started at 5 o’clock. Marty Lenz and Brandon Kristzahl were in Civic Center Park.  Jeanna Gondek had the weekend off.  It would have been great to have her opinion being a transplant from Michigan.  Ross Kaminsky and Ryan Edwards were broadcasting from the parade route. My 2 favorite parts of listening on 850 KOA were two former staff members from KOA radio  came out of retirement for the big parade. These 2  people were John Morrisey and Jerry Bell. John used to be the KOA radio traffic reporter. He used to do many traffic reports from the KOA helicopter. For this parade he was broadcasting from the helicopter. Jerry Bell was broadcasting from different places around the parade route. It was good to hear John and Jerry’s voices again. I hope they are doing well in their retirements, and I am hoping they are doing well. They sounded the same as ever.  KOA radio was the only station covering the parade from the sky. The second best coverage was Altitude sports radio. They had all of the crew.  Altitude sports radio was   noisier and louder than 850 KOA radio’s coverage was.  Michael Malone was really proud of the team.  His speech at the end of the season was “We want More,! More,! I certainly agree with this. Many of the fans were really excited about the Nuggets winning the trophy.  Dave Logan said last week that he thinks there were more people at the parade than last year with the Avalanche parade last year There weren’t as many people as there were for the Bronco’s superbowl parade. When the Denver teams are doing well it really brings people together After the parade, Nate Kreckman and Andy Lindahl talked about the coverage. They talked about a story with a woman reporter asking a fan who is a kid what they thought about the championship Denver Nuggets? The child fan was kind of shy and didn’t answer the question. Nate, Andy, and I felt sorry for the reporter.   Brandon Kristzahl got to hold the trophy. He got to see Nicola in the truck close up. That was a big highlight for him.   Speaking of duo’s, I liked what Lois Melkonian put in her newsletter. She wrote that Jamal and Nicola had a couple of Triple Doubles in the game. She was encouraging saying that people can be their own triple Doubles, and to work hard for what you want. I am hoping through this blog and my podcast that I have shown you some of the people I have considered to be people who are Triple Doubles. Some examples are: Steve Kelley, April Zesbaugh, Steffan and April, Marty Lenz and April, Marty and Jeanna Gondek, Dave Logan, Scott Hastings, Dave, and Susie, Dave and Lois, and Mike Rice, Jack Corrigan, and Jerry Schemmel, and many others. I have learned from these people that hard work pays off. These people and many others I didn’t mention have brought the triple Double attitudes to their work every day This is where my hard work attitude comes from. . In my life, I appreciate these people. That’s what this season means to me. I appreciate all of you supporting me through out my life.

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