PHOTOS: Fans celebrate Denver Nuggets first-ever NBA title
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The Nuggets defeated the Miami Heat on Monday, June 12, to secure the 2023 NBA championship title for the first time in team history.
The Nuggets defeated the Miami Heat on Monday, June 12, to secure the 2023 NBA championship title for the first time in team history.
Thousands of fans gathered in Civic Center Park Thursday, June 15 to celebrate the Nuggets' championship win.
A young Carmelo Anthony fan watches curiously as a basketball enthusiast thrusts a Nuggets sign into the face of a man shouting religious rhetoric.
A fan celebrates the Nuggets' championship win by smoking in downtown Denver on Thursday, June 15.
Fans line the sidewalks as the parade makes its way from Union Station to Civic Center Park in downtown Denver.
A mounted patrol makes their way down the street during Thursday's parade.
The Skyline Drumline marches through the streets of downtown Denver on Thursday, June 15.
Fans pose for selfies in Civic Center.
A fan holds a sign reading, "Let Joker go home!" Nuggets forward Nikola Jokic, nicknamed "Joker" by fans, has been at the center of media attention lately for making comments suggesting he'd rather go home to Serbia than celebrate the championship win.
The Denver Nuggets Dancers ride a fire truck in Thursday's well-attended parade.
An estimated 750,000 people attended Thursday's pre-rally and parade in downtown Denver.
A Nuggets fan poses with a man who used the gathering to preach Christian messaging.
An estimated 750,000 people attended Thursday's pre-rally and parade in downtown Denver to celebrate the Nuggets' first-ever NBA Championship.
A fan holds a sign reading, "Once a Jayhawk, always a Jayhawk." Nuggets guard Christian Braun, who played for the Kansas Jayhawks 2019-2022, is one of just five players to win an NCAA title and NBA Championship in back-to-back years.
An estimated 750,000 people attended Thursday's pre-rally and parade downtown to celebrate the Nuggets' first-ever NBA Championship win.
An estimated 750,000 people attended the pre-rally and parade downtown to celebrate the Nuggets' first-ever NBA Championship win.
Chloe Anderson is a freelance photojournalist based in Boulder. Born and raised in the Midwest, Chloe graduated from the University of Kansas in December with degrees in film and media production, journalism and photography. Her work has appeared in Climbing Magazine, Colorado Newsline, Sharp End Publishing, Kansas Reflector, the Lawrence Times and other publications.
