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The Denver Nuggets are a professional basketball team based in Denver Colorado that plays in the National Basketball Association. The team was founded as the Denver Larks in 1967 as a charter franchise of the American Basketball Association (ABA) but changed its name to Rockets before the first season. It changed its name again to the Nuggets in anticipation of an ABA-NBA merger in 1974 and played for the final ABA Championship title in 1976 losing to the New York Nets.