Chicago (USA) (EFE).- The Denver Nuggets celebrated this Thursday the first NBA title in its 47-year history with a parade aboard fire trucks through the streets of Denver (Colorado, USA). .), before more than 500,000 people at the party.
With Serbian Nikola Jokic, MVP of the Finals won over the Miami Heat (4-1), and Jamal Murray in front, the Nuggets left the Ball Arena area and paraded through downtown Denver displaying the Larry O’Brien trophy of NBA champions.
The Colorado franchise used dozens of fire trucks to welcome not only the champion squad, but all the members of the coaching staff, workers and family members.
Jokic and Murray were aboard a white truck customized with the number 15, the dorsal of the Serbian center, and they showed the public the MVP trophy of the Finals.
The Serbian, the first ever to lead the NBA playoffs by points, rebounds and assists, in addition to signing ten triple doubles, got on the truck accompanied by his young daughter.
The entire Nuggets squad turned to the street
In other trucks were key elements of the glorious path of the Nuggets such as Aaron Gordon or Kentavious Caldwell Pope, who celebrated in style with their fans.
In particular, Caldwell Pope was one of the most active and even drank two cans of beer thrown at him by a fan from the street.
“It’s amazing,” Gordon acknowledged in a brief conversation with a fellow aboard the truck.
Caldwell Pope conquered his second NBA champion ring, after the one in 2020 with the Los Angeles Lakers, but he lived his first parade because with the Los Angeles team the celebrations were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
A curious image was left by Christian Braun, who won the NBA as a rookie and who got on the fire truck wearing a WWE wrestling champion belt.