They went 4-1…blew out a mediocre Hawks team, beat the 76ers without Embiid, a bad Magic team and a very good win over the Clippers. They lost to the Warriors the game Murray got hurt.

Still there is clearly not enough information on that team to determine if they should have been title favorites. I also don’t recall Lowe ever saying they were favorites. Just that he wished we could have seen what they could have done.

Lowe also thought the suns would beat the Wolves, so clearly he can be wrong.

All I know is the suns blew them out every game that year. You smoked the suns on the way to a title 2 years later, I don’t know why playing a hypothetical if Murray was healthy game is so important to you. You won’t ever get me to change my mind. The suns were better that year, the nuggets have been much better since. Good luck vs Minny.