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Fate is strong! Miracle seeds were planted 5 years ago, with the most tiebreakers in the league, and they rely on them to support the situation when the top stream was eliminated

12:23pm, 15 May 2025【Basketball】

The Nuggets' life is so hard that it reminds me of that man... In the third game of the

series, Jokic made 0 of 10 three-pointers and made 8 mistakes, but the Nuggets won so well.

Gordon saved the team for the third time this year's playoffs, hitting a three-pointer in the last 27 seconds of the final quarter to drag the game into overtime.

Murray scored a team-high 27 points, scored only 2 points in overtime, but sent 2 assists and 2 steals.

Potter Jr. also finally recovered, making 5 of 6 three-pointers. This means that the "dragged" teacher will be eliminated, and the Nuggets will make 16 of 30 three-pointers - every game in the playoffs is very important, and it is recommended to urgently quit the fat man who can only make a fuss.

It is hard to imagine that when the Nuggets fired both the head coach and the general manager a month ago, the outside world believed that they had strategically given up on this season.

There are some unpopular or even evil data that can prove how strong the Nuggets' life is.

NBA statistics: Since the 21st century, only four teams have won the next game after losing 40 points in the playoffs.

This data means that the 40-point difference does not reflect the strength gap between the two teams. The first three times that did this were the 2009 Rockets, the 2017 Celtics, and the 2018 Rockets.

Interestingly, the Rockets played in tiebreak both series. And this Nuggets is the team that "likes" the tiebreaker most, the so-called Jokic "about G7".

Nuggets returned to the playoffs in 2019 and have played six tiebreaks this year, with the most leagues in the same period.

They won four of these six tiebreakers.

In these four tiebreak wins, one end and one end were the first and last G7 won the Spurs in the first round of 2019 and the first round of this season G7 won the Clippers. The remaining two games will happen in 2020.

That year, the Nuggets played against the Jazz in the first round and the Clippers in the second round. They won three consecutive games in a row with a big score of 1-3 behind in two consecutive rounds and made a comeback.

From 2015 to 2016, the NBA had three 1-3 reversals in two seasons: the Rockets in the second round of 2015, the Warriors in the 2016 Western Conference Finals, and the Cavaliers in the 2016 Finals.

So much so that the NBA in those two years gave people the illusion: a 1-3 reversal doesn’t seem to be a strange thing?

But in fact, NBA history has only seen 1-3 reversals 13 times. There are only three teams that have completed this feat twice: the Celtics, the Rockets, and the Nuggets. The difference is that the Celtics and the Rockets have been separated by decades between the two 1-3 reversals, which means that the two generations have completed 1-3 reversals one after another.

The Nuggets reversed 1-3 twice, only half a month later, and the same group of people did this twice. What's even more rare is that the core trio of that team still plays together.

This is the first time in NBA history and the only time that a team has been able to advance 1-3 in two consecutive rounds.

Of course, the park game is an important factor: it eliminates the running between home and away games, and gives the Nuggets more possibilities to create miracles.

But from the experiences in the next five years, it is not difficult to see that it was those two 1-3 reversals that cultivated the temperament of this team.

Nuggets lead 2-1, but it cannot be said how much they have to win. After all, the team opposite them just scored the fourth best regular season record in NBA history.

Just like losing 40 points in the last game doesn't mean anything, G3 won one more game after playing, and it doesn't mean too many problems.

But such Nuggets have indeed made this year's playoffs much more exciting, especially after the traffic teams have left the game...