Five Key Questions In The Denver Nuggets Vs. Los Angeles Lakers Playoff Rematch





In a reunion of last year’s Western Conference Finals teams, the second-seed Denver Nuggets led by Nikola Jokic will face LeBron James’ seventh-seeded Los Angeles Lakers in the first round of the NBA playoffs, as Denver begins the quest to defend their 2023 championship, the franchise’s first ever.

Denver drew the Lakers after Los Angeles, who initially finished eighth in the West, defeated the seventh-place New Orleans Pelicans in the play-in tournament to secure the seventh playoff seed. This will be the third time in five years the two teams will have matched up in the postseason, and while due in part to that fact they are deeply familiar with each other, some significant differences make this, as Nuggets head coach Michael Malone called it after a recent practice, “a different series.”

Guys are coming off a 57-win season, and we understand what we have in front of us,” Malone said. “And I think the biggest challenge is, everybody keeps talking about how we’ve beaten them eight games in a row, and as I told our guys today, that doesn’t mean anything.”

Denver drew the Lakers after Los Angeles, who initially finished eighth in the West, defeated the seventh-place New Orleans Pelicans in the play-in tournament to secure the seventh playoff seed. This will be the third time in five years the two teams will have matched up in the postseason,

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