The NBA announced Thursday that it broke its all-time regular-season attendance record for the second straight year.
The average NBA regular-season game had an attendance of 17,864 or 94 percent capacity in 2015-16. Can you guess which team brought up the rear? It’s the Denver Nuggets.
For the third straight season, the Nuggets’ attendance dipped from the previous year. In 2015-16, Denver was last in the league with just 577,898 fans coming to the Pepsi Center — an average of 14,095 per game. It was just 73.6 percent of capacity. Only Philadelphia and Minnesota had a lower percentage at 73.2.
Denver hasn’t had numbers that bad since the late ’90s when the team was still in McNichols Arena.