Nuggets get customized WWE championship belt for NBA Finals win

The Nuggets are going to need more space in their trophy case.

After winning the NBA championship Monday and taking home the Larry O’Brien trophy for the first time in franchise history, the team was also honored with another gift. World Wrestling Entertainment chief content officer Paul Levesque — better known as retired wrestler Triple H — on Tuesday announced on Twitter that the team is getting a WWE championship with custom-made Nuggets side plates.

It’s been a long-running tradition for the WWE to send title belts to the major U.S. pro sports champions. The Broncos received one in 2016 after winning Super Bowl 50.

The mockup belt is a replica of the WWE championship currently held by Roman Reigns. Reigns is also the Universal champion and was recently presented with the unified WWE Universal title belt.

This isn’t the first time the Nuggets and the WWE have ventured in the same realm. “Raw,” the pro-wrestling promotion’s Monday night show, was scheduled at the Pepsi Center on May 25, 2009. However, behind Chauncey Billups and Carmelo Anthony, the Nuggets advanced to the Western Conference Finals against the Lakers and Denver was scheduled to host Game 4 on that date.

The WWE moved the show to the vacant Staples Center, but chairman and CEO Vince McMahon didn’t just leave it there. He appeared on camera that night and ridiculed a fake Stan Kroenke — the Nuggets’ owner — in a skit. Then in the main event, a five-on-five elimination tag team match pit a team of “good guys” in Lakers gear (MVP, John Cena, Batista, Jerry Lawler and Mr. Kennedy) against the heel team wearing Nuggets attire (Randy Orton, Big Show, Ted DiBiase, Cody Rhodes and The Miz). The Cena-led “Lakers” won the match.

All was not lost for the Nuggets, who beat the Lakers that night, 120-109. Los Angeles, however, would go on to win the series, 4-2.

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