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The Denver Nuggets are an American professional basketball team based in Denver. The Nuggets compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference. The team was originally founded as the Denver Larks in 1967 (with ABA co-founder Dennis Murphy at one point thinking of expanding that team name to the Denver Lark Buntings instead of just the Larks as a charter franchise of the American Basketball Association (ABA) but changed their name to the Rockets before the first season due to a swift ownership change from the owners of Ringsby Rocket Truck Lines.