Nuggets Tie NBA Record For Biggest Margin of Victory at 58
In Games 1 and 2 of the Denver Nuggets-New Orleans Hornets Playoff Series, the Nuggets showed just how dominant they can be on both ends of the floor when they are really rolling. Although Game 3 was a tight one, with the Hornets coming out on top, no one would have expected what was to come in Game 4.
The Nuggets tonight put the hurt on Chris Paul and the New Orleans Hornets. Russell Peters said it best with “Somebody gonna get a hurt reaaaaaaal baaaad”, and tonight that somebody was the New Orleans Hornets. The Denver Nuggets tied an all-time NBA record for the largest margin of victory in a playoff game at 58 points. The final score was 121-63 in favor of the Nuggets. The record they tied has been standing since 1956 without anyone coming all that close.
And to top it off, the Nuggets pulled off the feat on the road, playing the game in New Orleans. At one point during this game the announcers started cheering “Defense, Defense” for the Nuggets in hopes that they would be part of a record setting performance. Video replay of the closing moments where Rick Kamla discusses the lowest franchise output for New Orleans, and the matching of the all-time margin of victory record below:
Thoughts on the game? Series? Is it over for the Hornets?
Whoa. This is some video game sh*t.
didn’t get to see the game .. but checking the sports ticker.. i was like damn ! that score cant be real .. thats what you call a beat down !
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I knew Chauncy had made the team just the opposite of what his counterpart Iverson did for the Detroit, but nobody saw this coming, probably not even the Nuggets. This says something about how a team enters the playoffs. It seems like the trade was a message that Billups is fully in receipt of. He’s sending a message that he now has something again to prove, just like he had when he came to Detroit in the past. There’s no substitute for experience in the playoffs and if you contrast his play with Rodney Stuckey, who probably will be more than adequate for the Pistons or whoever he plays with throughout his career, he’s just not there yet and with the Cavalier sweep of Detroit, Sunday we will allow the jury to stay in session on that one. All I can add to this opinion, is, their next opponent better not be half stepping and maybe they need to take this team serious, although we usually end up with the higher ranked team winning the championship. But the 58 point margin says that all bets are off, you think this was a fluke?. Carmelo has something to prove and as does JR Smith and of course we already have alluded to Chauncey’s mission that he appears to be on. After all Mr. Big Shot is back home after winning a championship and playing with about 5 other teams. No, I don’t think the trade was a mistake on Dumars’ part, because now we’re seeing the Billups of 2004, what we here in Michigan saw of that player was missing the last couple of years and he needed a wake up call, only thing is now he’s waking up the rooster, he’s that good.
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How the hell, could u do something like dat! Dats amazing.
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So ….. when is coach Karl getting fired?
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When you have Peja “never show up in the playoffs” Stojakovic, 0 for 5 for 3 point shots, just like in Sacramento!
Growing up in Colorado, I never thought the Nuggets would ever be good in my lifetime. Guess i was proven wrong