Does the team have issues? Sure. Can we match or even top last year's playoff run? I have no idea. An NBA title is the toughest of the four major pro sports to win imho, and there's no guarantees. It's entirely possible that last year's insanely entertaining playoff run will go down as the Nuggets' (this iteration, anyway) high water mark.

That said, I'm enjoying the hell out of this last season-and-a-half. As someone who suffered through the dark days of Skita, Tariq and Junior Harrington, watching these Nuggets push & shove their way into the NBA elite (and stay there!) is thrilling, and in some ways more satisfying to me than even the Broncos Super Bowl wins - blasphemy I know, but there it is.

Bottom line: frustrating and inconsistent as they can sometimes be, it really doesn't get much better than this. Enjoy this golden age folks, because you never know how long it'll last, or how long it will be until the next one....