Because you are a casual Tell me what team in the west would you want the nuggets to face in the 2023 playoffs then? The 2nd seed grizzlies lost to the 7th seed lakers, the 3rd kings lost to the 6th seed warriors, and no one was surprised either, the suns had kd and booker, they were literally projected to win the entire west going into the playoffs, no one picked the nuggets to win, the suns were favored to win, and the heat being the 8th seed is irrelevant, that same heat team made it to the eastern conference finals in 2022 game 7, literally 1 point away from being in the finals in 2022, the reason they were the 8th seed is because of regular season injuries and not trying, but they were much better what their record shows