Eureka! This Dusty Ol’ Cowtown of Denver, Colorado, has the best betting odds of becoming the first city ever to win both the NBA and NHL championships in the same year since the NBA and I were born.
It is a foregone conclusion that the Nuggetlanche duo will play in the two league’s postseasons for a combined 50 times. The Nuggets have reached the playoffs 28 previous years since rejoining the National Basketball Association in 1976. And the Avalanche have advanced to the National Hockey League playoffs for 20 seasons since moving from Quebec City in 1995.
Each is a current No. 3 seed – the Nugs in the Western Conference and the Avs, despite being edged by the booming Blues on Saturday afternoon in a bad brain burp at Ball 2-1 — still are a wild card in the Central Division of the Western Conference.
The Avalanche won their …
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