They came from different eras and encompassed various styles, a mixture of young players and veterans. Two have since moved on, and three others remain, trying to carry forward what they began together.



For 42 minutes during the 2016-17 season, the five players who constitute The Athletic’s Denver Nuggets all-decade team shared the court together. They played with cohesion offensively, putting up 116.5 points per 100 possessions.



They played uptempo, shared the basketball and shot the hell out of it, registering a 47.8 percent clip from 3-point range.



The players who made this list did so for reasons that go far beyond those minutes they shared on the floor together. They have all impacted the franchise over different periods and in myriad ways. But in some ways, those 42 minutes, even as they came during a 40-win season that fell short of the playoffs, represented a golden, albeit brief era in Nuggets basketball.



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