For the second straight season, Nikola Jokić's eternally resilient Denver Nuggets took a Western Conference heavyweight to seven games in the second round. And for the second straight season, Jokić's Nuggets ultimately fell short for the same reason.

Nikola Jokić remains one of the game's most dominant forces, but the lack of depth on the Nuggets roster remains an issue and appears at this point to be an untenable situation w