After the Los Angeles Lakers fell meekly to the Denver Nuggets on Sunday, 129-118, it’s easy to forget there was a time when the Purple and Gold always seemed to beat the Nuggets.
In April of 1987, the Lakers were streaking toward the playoffs, looking to win their fourth NBA championship of the decade, when they faced a Nuggets team led by a 1980s scoring machine named Alex English.
English got his, as he usually did, leading all scorers with 29 points.
