Tonight’s second leg of the weekly TNT doubleheader takes place in the Mile High City, as the Denver Nuggets are tasked tonight to defend home court in a short week against the visiting Utah Jazz, live on TNT at 10:30 p.m. ET.
The last time these two Western rivals faced off, recently-appointed All-Star reserve Donovan Mitchell dropped 46 on the Nuggets’ heads in a make-or-break time for the Nuggets to keep their top-3 spot in the West. Denver felt like they may have lost more than that one contest, for the better team right now surely looks like the 32-15 Jazz and though bost squads possess the same record, the eye test supposes that the Jazz are one of the more arduous foes the Nuggets will have to face this year if they’re to meet again in the postseason.
Utah has won 19 of their past 23 games during the span of the past two months, and they’re getting healthy and more accustomed to playing with one another as the games go by even more. Though they’ve dropped two straight, this Jazz team is hard to play against, and it isn’t just because of Mitchell’s scoring rampages and Rudy Gobert’s block parties he loves to put on at usual occurrence.
But this Denver team though? They’re no shy folk from showing up to compete against teams that would appear better than them on paper. Also, keep in mind, Utah is playing on the second night of a back to back since they are reeling from a loss to the Spurs in San Antonio’s AT&T Center and a redeye flight to a land that’s 5,280 feet above sea level. That Denver air is nothing to easily adjust to, so it’ll be interesting to see if the Nuggets take advantage of a fatigued Jazz team early with the compilation of pieces like Nikola Jokic (who just got announced as another All-Star reserve) and Michael Porter Jr., a rookie who’s taken the league by storm at the tender age of 19.
Tonight’s second TNT game should be a dandy to watch, so don’t miss it.
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