Aaron Gordon has already declared Denver the 2026 NBA champion
Only two teams posed a major threat to the Oklahoma City Thunder during the 2024-25 campaign. Denver Nuggets and the Indiana Pacers. The latter was ravaged by injuries. This leaves the Nuggetsamong many aspiring championship contenders, as perhaps the team most likely to dethrone the Thunder — especially when they carry themselves with so much confidence.
In fact, in an appearance on The Old Man and The Three podcast, the Nuggets are thriving Aaron Gordon has ultimate belief in his team that they will be the last one standing in June in the playoffs reminiscent of their path to winning the NBA championship in 2023.
“At the end of the day, I believe, we’re going to be the ones to win. We’re going to be the last team to win. Everybody else is going to have an L at the end of the season. Except us. We’re going to be the ones to win at the end of the season,” Gordon said.
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There is nothing in what Gordon said that should ruffle anyone’s feathers. This is the mindset that anyone who wants to win a title has to bring every night, and to be fair to him, the Nuggets have so much talent, especially with Nikola Jokić is in the leadthat making such a proclamation is far from the most incredible thing in the world.
The Nuggets are looking to use their newfound depth to win it all
Any team built around Jokic would have to throw on purpose to not be in the championship conversation. But the Nuggets have gone out and built a much deeper team around arguably the best active player in the NBA, and they certainly look like a team that could be a big problem for the Thunder, especially when they did it with a much shallower roster last season.
Of course, whether the Nuggets manage to win the title is not entirely up to them. At the end of the day, a lot of matchup and injury luck depends on which team takes home the Larry O’Brien trophy at the end of the season.
2025-12-03 01:44:00
