Editing Denver Nuggets (section)

====2006–2008: The Anthony and Iverson duo====
[[File:Iverson from behind.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.8|Allen Iverson helped Denver to their first 50-win season since 1988.]]
On December 19, 2006, the Nuggets traded [[Joe Smith (basketball)|Joe Smith]], [[Andre Miller]] and two first-round draft picks of the [[2007 NBA draft]] to the [[Philadelphia 76ers]] for [[Ivan McFarlin]] and superstar [[Allen Iverson]] (McFarlin was waived immediately following the trade's approval). The moves gave the Nuggets the top two scorers in the league at the time in Anthony and Iverson, who were both scoring over 30 points per game at the time of the trade. On January 11, 2007, [[Earl Boykins]], [[Julius Hodge]] and cash considerations were traded to the [[Milwaukee Bucks]], in exchange for point guard [[Steve Blake]]. With Iverson, many considered the Nuggets as one of the elite in the West. However, chemistry was an issue, as the Nuggets finished the season with the sixth seed, giving them a first-round matchup against the [[San Antonio Spurs]]. In the [[2007 NBA playoffs|playoffs]], the Nuggets took Game 1 and home-court advantage away from the Spurs. However, as had occurred in the 2005 playoffs, the Spurs bounced back to sweep the next four, as the Nuggets were eliminated in the first round in five games for the fourth straight year.

On March 16, [[2007–08 NBA season|2008]], the Nuggets scored 168 points in a 168–116 home win over [[Seattle SuperSonics]].<ref name="nuggets168points">{{cite web |author=Pepsi Center, Denver |url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=280316007 |title=ESPN – Seattle vs. Denver – Recap – March 16, 2008 |publisher=[[ESPN]] |date=March 16, 2008 |access-date=May 18, 2012 |archive-date=May 23, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523010935/http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=280316007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was the third-most points scored for a regulation game in NBA history (The Nuggets and the Pistons hold the spot for most combined points scored in a game which was over 360 points total.)<ref name="nuggets168points" />

They finished the [[2007–08 NBA season]] with exactly 50 wins as well as finishing the first half of that season 25–16 (50–32 overall record, tied for the third-best all-time Nuggets record since the team officially joined the NBA in 1976), following a 120–111 home victory over the [[Memphis Grizzlies]] in the last game of the season.<ref name="nuggets50wins0708">{{cite web |author=Pepsi Center, Denver |url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=280416007 |title=ESPN – Memphis vs. Denver – Recap – April 16, 2008 |publisher=[[ESPN]] |date=April 16, 2008 |access-date=May 18, 2012 |archive-date=May 12, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512062658/http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=280416007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was the first time since the [[1987–88 NBA season]] that the Nuggets finished with at least 50 wins in a season.<ref name="nuggets50wins0708" /> Denver ended up as the eighth seed in the Western Conference of the [[2008 NBA playoffs]], and their 50 wins marked the highest win total for an eighth seed in NBA history.<ref name="nuggets50wins0708" /> It also meant that for the first time in NBA history, all eight playoff seeds in a Conference had at least 50 wins. The Nuggets faced the top-seeded [[Los Angeles Lakers]] (57–25) in the first round. The seven games separating the Nuggets and the Lakers overall records is the closest margin between an eighth seed and a top seed since the NBA went to a 16-team playoff format in [[1983–84 NBA season|1983–84]].<ref name="nuggets50wins0708" /> However, the Lakers swept them in four games, marking the second time in NBA history that a 50-win team was swept in a [[Best-of-seven playoff|best-of-seven playoff series]] in the first round. It was Denver's fifth straight first-round loss.<ref>{{cite news|title=Nuggets Put Up a Fight, but Lakers Get Sweep|url=http://www.nba.com/playoffs2008/series/series_w1s1.html|publisher=NBA Media Ventures, LLC|website=NBA.com|date=April 29, 2008|access-date=June 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080624070435/http://www.nba.com/playoffs2008/series/series_w1s1.html|archive-date=June 24, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=NBA – 2004 Playoffs Memphis Grizzlies vs. San Antonio Spurs – Yahoo! Sports|url=https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/playoffs/memsas?season=2003|work=Yahoo! Sports|date=April 20, 2011|access-date=May 18, 2012|archive-date=October 24, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024155743/http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/playoffs/memsas?season=2003|url-status=live}}</ref>