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1986–87 Denver Nuggets season

NBA professional basketball team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ3705578 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1986–87 Denver Nuggets season was the Nuggets' 11th season in the NBA and 20th season as a franchise.

In the playoffs, the Nuggets were swept by the eventual NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers in three games in the First Round. They also dubiously dropped the season series to the lowly Los Angeles Clippers, who had one of the all-time NBA worst seasons finishing at 12–70.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1986–87 Denver Nuggets season” is nBA professional basketball team season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Denver, Nuggets and season, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Denver, Nuggets and season is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3705578. The first chronological checks are 1986.

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This entry incorporates text from “1986–87 Denver Nuggets season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.