1949–50 Denver Nuggets Season
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was the only season for the original Denver Nuggets franchise in the
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, as well as their second professional basketball season when you include their previous season that they played in the preceding National Basketball League. During their only season in the NBA, the original Nuggets franchise faced plenty of challenges due to the fact that
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s were not yet seen as a common way to travel to long distances at a time and that
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s were considered the way to travel from one destination to another at the time. Not only that, but some of the bigger markets like
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saw the city of
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as something more akin to the smaller cities of
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as awkward locations to play under due to how far away Denver was when compared to the rest of the league's locations at the time. This would eventually lead to the original Nuggets ending their only season in the NBA with an 11–51 record (including a 0–15 start to the season), as well as resort to them joining the
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(who previously withdrew from the NBA themselves two weeks before the Nuggets did),
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coming together to create what ultimately became the short-lived rivaling National Professional Basketball League as a failed effort to survive beyond the NBA, with the Nuggets first becoming the Denver Refiners and then the Evansville Agogans during that short-lived failure of a season.


Roster


Regular season

On October 29, the Nuggets lost to the
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in the first ever NBA game following the NBLBAA merger on August 3.''Why The NBA Celebrates The Wrong Birthday''
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Season standings


Record vs. opponents


Game log


References

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