My List: All Time Team, Denver Nuggets

The countdown on the My List special moves on to team #14, the Denver Nuggets. Here are the best players (in my opinion) from the thin air. Starters: PG: Lafayette Lever: "Fat" was the player assigned to make Denver''s frenetic offense go in the 1980s. Acquired from Portland in 1984, Lever helped direct the Nuggets to the conference finals in his first season there. Lever's best stats years came in the late 80s, where he would have three seasons (1987-89) of near triple-double averages. For a 6 foot 3 guard, he could rebound well (two seasons he averaged 9.3 RPG), and he was a two time All-Star (1988, 1990). For his career, he averaged 13.9 PPG, 6 RPG and 6.2 APG. SG: David Thompson: The original Skywalker was like a shooting star; he burst onto the scene with a flurry, then almost as quickly, he was gone. Thompson was... [read full story]