Nuggets focused on sweeping Lakers - 'Have to end it' in Game 4 - ESPN

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — On the doorstep of reaching their first ever NBA Finals, the Denver Nuggets say they must do something on Monday that has never been done before.

No team has been able to sweep LeBron James in a playoff series before the NBA Finals and the Nuggets themselves have never completed a sweep in franchise history.

James has been swept only twice before with both times coming in the NBA Finals with the Cleveland Cavaliers to the San Antonio Spurs in 2007 and the Golden State Warriors in 2018.

«I mean, s--- that's LeBron man,» Nuggets veteran forward Jeff Green said on Sunday after the Nuggets met and watched film at their team hotel. «He's done some amazing things throughout these last 20 years. For me, we have to end it.

»It's like you can't continue to give him life. The more life you give him, the more confidence he gains and the more confidence he instills in his teammates. So for me, [on Monday] it has to end."

Guard Bruce Brown echoed the same sentiment, saying the Nuggets must be focused on slamming the door shut on the Lakers.

«We want to give them no hope,» Brown said. «No confidence.»

The Lakers went through practice on Sunday hoping it is not the final time they practice as a team this season. They're motivated to avoid being swept.

«It's a very real thing,» Lakers coach Darvin Ham said of the Lakers being fueled to avoid a 4-0 finish to their season. «It's a very real thing. It's a prideful group, again, highly competitive that cares and that wants to go and put on a good show for our fans as well.

»Our fans, Lakers nation, they support the hell out of us and we got to do our part. We got to go out there and show up and show out."

Teams that have fallen behind 0-3 in a series are 0-149