Scott Van Pelt takes you through highlights of Game 5 of the 2023 NBA Finals where the Denver Nuggets beat the Miami Heat, 94-89, to capture the team’s first NBA championship. SVP then speaks with Stephen A. Smith before players and coaches from both teams react.
0:00 Game 5 Highlights
5:51 Stephen A. reacts
7:26 Erik Spoelstra
9:05 Michael Malone
11:10 Jimmy Butler & Kyle Lowry
13:57 KCP & Nikola Jokic
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40 Comments
If giannis comes back next season with a jumper, do we still say jokic is the best big? Assists or defense?
These guys mad Jokic won a title before their brother Embid✊🏿
ESPN keep doing ya thing with the vlogs for real let's go DENVER NUGGETS NBA Champions 🏆🎉💯💯💯👍👍👍
ESPN made a mistake. There have only been five non-US born players to win NBA finals MVP.
They probably meant its happened six times.
As a Phila Sixers fan, I rooted for Denver all along. They are a blue collar team. Nothing fancy, just hard work and hustle. Congrats. Joker is now in my all time Top 10 Centers. He's amazing, one of a kind.
In other news: KD joins nuggets
this Finals was just a mismatch. the Nuggets are too good. if Murray had been healthy the last 2 seasons, this team would've been competing for titles that whole time. Miami did well to get here but Jimmy was clearly not 100% and the role players really let themselves down in the Finals. but even if the Heat played as well as they did against the Bucks and Celtics, i still don't think they would've had enough to beat Denver.
This reminds me of the time Kendrick Perkins said Jokic didn't deserve the MVP because the voters were racist.
As a Sixers fan, Embiid needs to learn how to play better team ball and leadership from Joker. Stop trying to iso all the time and don't blame others for your failures
Bless the LORD for life, protection, His provisions, His saving grace, and for His tender mercies! There's nothing in this world or the heavens' above greater than He. Blessings to all 💜
What a remarkable season the Denver Nuggets had.
This team is stacked and will be ready to defend their title.
Only the strongest team survived the playoffs.
Congratulations to the nuggets
Tough luck heat but they need to trade for somebody
How will this affect Lebron's legacy, ESPN?
The officiating was atrociously bad. The Heat proved they have the best floppers in the league. They even flop better than the faker Lakers. Sorry if the truth hurts…
Stephen A. you are A p… of s……
I smell they’re cooking in the Butler 3 point shot foul
Celtics fan to Miami😂😂😂😂😂
White boy is gonna rule the NBA for years to come
Well deserved by my Denver nuggets🍾✊🏾
So proud of Miami!! Congratulations Denver. That team is just great. Starters and bench.
Јокић, Марфи, Портер…. Денвер фамилија 💪💪💪 Никола Србине 💪🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸💪
The heat deserved to lose. I have no sympathy for those five heat players with those last few seconds left because they weren’t even trying. They were only down by five. They could have legally stolen the ball and still had a legitimate chance but no they just walked like it was a preseason game so you know what those starting five can suck it then. Seriously. If you don’t care then don’t expect to be an nba finals champ then. The nuggets never did that and it payed off into being nba finals champs.
Also I’m happy the nuggets won because the ref tried to cheat the nuggets out all finals long by not making correct calls. That’s called cheating. An example is in this video when Nikola Jokic was illegally tackled and NIKOLA was the one called for the foul when HE WAS FOULED. HE WAS TACKLED. THATS ILLEGAL IN BASKETBALL. THIS AINT FOOTBALL! I’m so glad the sucky refs got what they got coming after cheating but still not getting their cheetful way just like the dirty refs on the movie the longest yard.
# maybe now you dirty refs learned your lesson on calling the game fair BECAUSE THATS INDEED A REFS JOB DUMBA$$e$!!!!!!!!
Boring finals
Great stuff
Denver getting Tipsy 😂 great work!
COME ON, TACO BELL! SPONSOR JOKIC ALREADY!
Nuggets beat the Heat and the Refs last night
Jokić👊🐐🇷🇸
DenverIĆ😂
The refs really tried to give this to Miami.
Jimmy just run out of gas from the Celtics Series.
If your 50 your not rushing another year. Holla if ya hear me peeps. Lol
Congrats to all the nuggets but let’s just give Josh Kroenke the credit he deserves. He has been running all four of the KSE Denver teams for around 7 years now. Since he took over the Nuggets won the championship, the Avs won the cup, the Mammoth made two finals and won one. Ok the Rapids haven’t turned the corner yet but give them time. As a Colorado sports fan, thanks to Josh Kroenke!
Good coaching and drafting wins championships. I can only think of the lakers in the last 10 years that have traded for major assets and won. I would have been happy whoever won the finals but The nuggets have built a great team.
Bam Adebayo just standing behind Jokic he couldve gotten up a layup if he was active
The music in the background throughout the highlights is legitimately awful and absolutely demolishes the viewing experience. Totally horrible.
Arsenal.
NO superteams take that lebron and kd
With Jokic 28 yrs old Murray 26 , Lebron almost 40 Steph and KD 34 Nuggets might be on the verge of a dynasty with their young core
The Heat loses the series 1-4. Final playoff record: 13 W-10 L (.565). Nuggets: 16-04 (.8).