No joke -- Nuggets might just be that good

Published May 4, 2009 at 5:00 a.m.

Much has been made around these parts about the Mavericks peaking at the right time.

The Nuggets are playing their best basketball right now, too. And the peaks in the Rocky Mountains are much higher than the ones in Dallas.

Denver finished the regular season by winning 14 of its final 17 games, including a mail-in loss in the nothing-to-gain finale. Eleven of those wins were by double figures.

Denver has started the playoffs by winning five of six games -- and all the victories are by double figures, including a 58-point thrashing of the Hornets in New Orleans.

The Nuggets' stars got to laugh it up during garbage time Sunday despite Carmelo Anthony getting in early foul trouble and Chauncey Billups failing to put his stamp on the game.

In other words, the Nuggets won comfortably without big games from its two best players. That's scary.

"We don't a send message to Dallas," Nene said, per the Denver Post. "We send a message to us. If we play like that -- simple, humble, hard, share the ball, play defense -- this is going to be the result."

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