{"id":709973,"date":"2026-04-14T00:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/709973\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T00:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:15:24","slug":"did-the-nuggets-regular-season-finish-change-their-championship-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/709973\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the Nuggets Regular Season Finish CHANGE Their Championship Chances?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What Does the Nuggets\u2019 Regular Season Finish Mean for Their Championship Hopes? The Denver Nuggets secured the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference with their win vs. the San Antonio Spurs Sunday evening. There was some controversy heading into the matchup as the Nuggets opted to rest a majority of their starters despite the No. 3 seed being on the line. Denver will now prepare to take on the Minnesota Timberwolves in the first round of the NBA Playoffs, with the Spurs likely lined up as the next opponent should the Nuggets win their opening series. Nikola Joki\u0107 did play Sunday, meaning he is eligible for season-long awards, including MVP. Denver enters the NBA Playoffs winners of 12 straight games, how does that change their playoff outlook?. Plus, the fellas provide some updates in the world of Rockies baseball and Avalanche hockey. <\/p>\n<p>On today\u2019s Shapiro and Piro: <br \/>-Nuggets clinch the No. 3 seed<br \/>-Regular season wrap<br \/>-Nuggets will face Timberwolves in 1st round <br \/>-David Adelman speaks on playoff seeding<br \/>-Early thoughts for Nuggets-Wolves<br \/>-Jared Bednar update <br \/>-DU win National Championship  <\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss the latest updates on Denver\u2019s top teams from Shapiro and Piro \u2014 hit that subscribe button and turn on notifications to stay on top of all the action!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What Does the Nuggets\u2019 Regular Season Finish Mean for Their Championship Hopes? The Denver Nuggets secured the No.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[7,301,187,3943,6,302],"class_list":{"0":"post-709973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-denver-nuggets","11":"tag-denvernuggets","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nuggets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116400182279406733","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}