I would have loved to see them play the Warriors, even though I don't think the Warriors necessarily were, you know, in all time great team or anything this year. The Lakers became a legitimately really good team over the last 30 games of the season once they remade their roster. There wasn't a lot of underselling the threat of the Lakers until the Lakers were rendered no longer a threat by the Denver Nuggets in a sweep. And then the heat like, what are they supposed to do? Apologize for the fact that the heat beat the Celtics and the Bucks and in the Knicks and the play like, what could they do it?
Zach and ESPN's Kevin Pelton break down Denver's Game 4 win in Miami, how they survived Nikola Jokic's foul trouble, what comes next in Game 5, and Denver's postseason run so far.
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