We keep looking for reasons the Denver Nuggets can't win the West this season. After Denver extended its win streak to 13 in Oklahoma City on Tuesday, maybe it's time that we started looking for reasons the Nuggets can win their conference. Here's one: From top to bottom, the Nuggets are the most athletic team in the NBA.

Athleticism in a dictionary sense is a descriptive term that normally describes things like speed, quickness and jumping ability. Those physical qualities are measurable, too, and scouting websites have published and archived that kind of data for NBA prospects for several years. But that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about what I refer to as "applied athleticism." In a nutshell, I don't want to know a player's vertical leap. I want to know how well he translates his hops into measurable basketball production like rebounds and blocked shots.