Men039s Shorts Mitchell and Ness Authentic Denver Nuggets HWC 200607 Shorts

The Denver Nuggets celebrated 40 years of basketball in Denver by wearing these ABA Denver Rockets uniforms periodically throughout the 2006-07 season. The Rockets played in the NBA from 1969-74. In 1974, anticipating their move to the NBA in 1976, the team held a contest to choose a new name, since the Rockets already existed in Houston. Nuggets was the winner, chosen in honor of the first basketball team in Denver. From 1948-50 the "original" Denver Nuggets played in both the BAA and NBL, before folding in 1950.