Schedule and 2008-09 Results
Regular Season Records: Denver 54-28, New Orleans 49-33
Game 1 on Sunday, 19 April: New Orleans loses at Denver, 113-pts-84
Game 2 on Wednesday, 22 April: New Orleans loses at Denver, 108-pts-93
Game 3 on Saturday, 25 April: Denver loses at New Orleans, 95-pts-93
Game 4 on Monday, 27 April: Denver wins at New Orleans, 121-pts-63
Game 5 on Wednesday, 29 April: New Orleans loses at Denver, 107-pts-86

SERIES NOTES:

Post-series assessment: Ending a nine-series losing streak in best-of-7 NBA competition, the Denver Nuggets defeated the New Orleans Hornets 4-games-1 in MLB/NBA/NHL best-of-7 playoff series 1076. Denver thereby improves its best-of-7 NBA playoff series record to 3-12 overall and 1-5 in the Preliminary round. New Orleans sees its best-of-7 NBA playoff series record fall to 1-4 overall and 1-3 in the Preliminary round. The win order for the victorious Denver Nuggets was WWLWW in series 1076: Series 1076 thus becomes the 13th NBA Preliminary-round series, the 48th NBA series (all rounds), and the 95th MLB/NBA/NHL series (all rounds) to follow this win order to completion. The sum of the five individual-game victory margins in series 1076 is 125 points - a new high for a best-of-7 format NBA playoff series lasting five games; the previous such high was 105 points, set in series 171 by the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1965 NBA Finals (Boston won 4-games-1), and tied in series 454 by the Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets in the 1985 NBA Semifinals (the Lakers won 4-games-1). A core component of those 125 points: The best-of-7 NBA game-record 58-point victory margin by Denver over New Orleans in Game 4.