The firing of their head coach and general manager right before the start of these NBA playoffs comes to mind most. I've seen them at their highest highs, such as when they went a dominant 16-4 through the entire 2023 postseason en route to the first championship in franchise history.

Aaron Gordon was sitting in the Denver Nuggets ' locker room with ice wrapped around his knees, watching the Golden State Warriors play the Houston Rockets, when something flashed across the screen: It was his face, with ABC announcing that Gordon had just made the first buzzer-beating dunk in playoff history.

Nuggets forward Aaron Gordon positioned himself to be the villain in the eyes of the Clippers’ home crowd Saturday night.