The Six People You Might Meet at the Denver Nuggets' Victory Parade
Whether you want to or not. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY PETER MOORE
Welcome back to my gig at The Colorado Sun, where I make fun of all things mountain-west. The big news out here is the Denver Nuggets, who won the NBA championship while being led by a giant Serbian bear, and his fleet Canadian sidekick. Hooray for the home team of foreign nationals! The championship parade is tomorrow—a phenomenon I couldn’t let slide by without comment.
YOU BETTER LEAVE FOR THE PARADE RIGHT NOW. It might already be too late in fact. Downtown Denver is going to be so crowded, it’ll be as if actual gold nuggets had been strewn on the streets.
The Denver Nuggets have richly earned their victory parade, stomping team critics (146-0) and the rest of the NBA (16-4) on the way to the franchise’s first championship after 47 fantastic but ultimately futile years. But after a brutal game five victory in Ball Arena—ouch! yay!—that losing stuff is over. We won!
So, at around 10am on Thursday, June 15, the Nuggets will roll out of Union Station, proceed along 17th Street, hang a right on Broadway, and around noon, stop for speeches in Civic Center Park. And they’re doing it all for you, Nuggets fans.
Let me introduce you to a few of your fellow parade-goers, so you won’t be shocked when they step on your toes, invade your personal space, shout spittle into your face, and otherwise join you in communing with greatness.
The guy in full Nuggets regalia who still lives with his mom
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The long-time Nuggets fan who will engage you in remembrances of Alex English.
Your girlfriend, who has other things on her mind.
Dozens of Jokic superfans in face paint, each of whom thought it was their original idea to dress up this way.
A vendor who will sell you ugly crap you’ll never wear again.
Me, and two-hundred thousand other new Coloradans, who suddenly feel like we truly belong here for the first time.
Odd, and strangely beautiful, how a team led by a Serbian and Canadian can make us one, for as long as the championship glow lasts. Thanks Nikola. Thanks Jamal. Thanks Nuggets.
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Loved this - although when I have nightmares about The Joker x a gazillion apparating from my bedroom walls in the middle of the night tonight I will hold YOU entirely responsible, Peter! 🤡
I know NOTHING about sports (and I'm ashamed to say I've lived in America for decades) but I'm lovin' this sports commentary. Ha!!!!!