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Line 41: \| 4_pattern_s = --> }} The '''Denver Nuggets''' are an American professional basketball team based in [[Denver~~]], and the owners of the [[Los Angeles Lakers~~]]. The Nuggets compete in the [[National Basketball Association]] (NBA) as a member of the [[Northwest Division (NBA)\|Northwest Division]] of the [[Western Conference (NBA)\|Western Conference]]. The team was founded as the '''Denver Larks''' in 1967 as a charter franchise of the [[American Basketball Association]] (ABA) but changed their name to the '''Rockets''' before the first season.<ref>{{cite news\|title=December to Remember\|url=http://www.nba.com/nuggets/december-to-remember\|publisher=NBA Media Ventures, LLC\|website=Nuggets.com\|date=December 3, 2014\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141204042700/http://www.nba.com/nuggets/december-to-remember\|archive-date=December 4, 2014\|access-date=June 21, 2016\|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Rockets then changed their name again to the Nuggets in 1974.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Behind The Name – Nuggets\|url=https://www.nba.com/nuggets/features/behind_the_name.html\|publisher=NBA Media Ventures, LLC\|website=Nuggets.com\|date=August 31, 2006\|access-date=June 2, 2023\|url-status=live\|archive-date=May 10, 2023\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510090859/https://www.nba.com/nuggets/features/behind_the_name.html}}</ref> After the name change, the Nuggets played for the final [[List of ABA champions\|ABA Championship]] title in 1976, losing to the [[Brooklyn Nets\|New York Nets]]. The team has had some periods of success, qualifying for the ABA playoffs in every season of the ABA's existence (except 1971 and 1974), losing in the [[1976 ABA playoffs\|1976 ABA Finals]] to the [[Brooklyn Nets\|New York Nets]].<ref name="basketball-reference">{{cite web \|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/DEN/ \|title=Denver Nuggets Franchise Index \|publisher=Basketball Reference \|access-date=March 8, 2018 \|archive-date=February 24, 2011 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110224201552/http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/DEN/ \|url-status=live }}</ref> The team joined the NBA in 1976 after the [[American Basketball Association–National Basketball Association merger\|ABA–NBA merger]] and qualified for the [[NBA playoffs]] in nine consecutive seasons in the 1980s and ten consecutive seasons from 2004 to 2013.<ref name="basketball-reference"/> In 2023, the Nuggets, led by [[Nikola Jokić]] and [[Jamal Murray]], reached their first [[NBA Finals]] and defeated the [[Miami Heat]] to capture the franchise's first NBA championship. The Nuggets were the last of the four surviving former ABA teams to reach the NBA Finals, and the second former ABA team to win an NBA title (after the [[San Antonio Spurs]]).<ref name="basketball-reference"/><ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.espn.com/nba/playoffs/2009/matchup/_/teams/nuggets-lakers \|title=2009 NBA Playoffs – Conference finals – Nuggets vs. Lakers – ESPN \|website=ESPN \|access-date=December 12, 2019 \|quote=The Nuggets are the only active former ABA franchise never to win a title in the ABA or NBA. \|archive-date=December 12, 2019 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212231928/http://www.espn.com/nba/playoffs/2009/matchup/_/teams/nuggets-lakers \|url-status=live }}</ref> The Nuggets play their home games at [[Ball Arena]],<ref name="BallArena"/> which they share with the [[Colorado Avalanche]] of the [[National Hockey League]] (NHL) and the [[Colorado Mammoth]] of the [[National Lacrosse League]] (NLL).

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