Nikola Jokić is a 3-time winner of the Kia NBA MVP.

Which two teams will reach the NBA Finals? We'll have complete coverage of the playoffs all the way until the champion is crowned. (The 2025 Finals tip off June 5 on ABC and the ESPN App.) The league's conference semifinals wrapped on Sunday with the Oklahoma City Thunder outlasting the Denver Nuggets in this round's only Game 7.

It's a do-or-die Game 7 for the Denver Nuggets and Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday afternoon with a spot in the 2025 Western Conference finals on the line. The top-seeded Thunder are facing elimination for the first time in these playoffs after dropping Game 6 in Denver on Thursday night.

The Denver Nuggets are only two seasons removed from claiming the NBA title, but it feels a lot longer ago, doesn't it?

Zach Buckley of Bleacher Report identified the players he believed should be at the top of the list for the Nuggets this offseason. Two of those players offered to address the obvious need for depth. The other one was a franchise-altering pursuit.

To no one's surprise, Nuggets fans were not happy to see their guy lose out on adding some hardware. Jokic accomplished several historic feats in 2024-25, including being the first player to finish top three in points, rebounds, and assists per game.

The Athletic has live coverage of Timberwolves vs. Thunder Game 1 from the 2025 NBA Western Conference Finals. A hard-fought series ended in a laugher of a finale on Sunday, as the Oklahoma City Thunder blasted the shorthanded Denver Nuggets 125-93 in Game 7 to advance to the Western Conference finals.

Discover three key trades the Denver Nuggets should make to build a championship roster around Nikola Jokic for 2026.

Nikola Jokić's former head coach apparently believes Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is the 2024-25 NBA MVP. "Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, he showed why he's MVP," Michael Malone said Tuesday during an appearance on ESPN's postgame coverage when discussing the Oklahoma City Thunder's 114-88 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals.

Team sources tell me that Nuggets forward Aaron Gordon is expected to warm up with about an hour left before tip-off and make his decision from there. It seems improbable, if not impossible, that he could compete in a high-level playoff game with such a serious injury,

Josh Kroenke saw the writing on the wall toward the end of the Nuggets season, which is why he decided to fire Michael Malone.