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Denver Nuggets The Denver Nuggets are an American professional basketball team based in Denver, Colorado . The Nuggets compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member club of the league's Western Conference Northwest Division . The team was founded as the Denver Larks in 1967 as a charter franchise of the American Basketball Association (ABA), but changed its name to Rockets before the first season. [9] It changed its name again to the Nuggets in 1974. [10] After the name change, the Nuggets played for the final ABA Championship title in 1976, losing to the New York Nets . The team has had some periods of success, qualifying for the ABA Playoffs for all seasons from 1967 to the 1976 ABA playoffs where it lost in the finals. [11] The team joined the NBA in 1976 after the ABA–NBA merger and qualified for the NBA pl...