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This has come down with all the key Nuggets now playing after several listed as iffy. It's also the end of a three-game trip and a bit of an unusual start time for them. Denver is just 12-11 away. The Nugs average 116.5 ppg overall but 112.9 on the road, and their defense goes from 112.9 points allowed per game to 116.4. I expect Joel Embiid to go nuts after not making the starting lineup of the East All-Stars. Even Nikola Jokic said that was basically BS. Not sure who you take off among the East big guys, though; maybe Kevin Durant simply as he has missed so many games and isn't particularly close to a return. I don't LOVE this play, but I'm going to watch it so want to care and really only taking the home side. The crowd should be quite entertaining -- i.e. already hammered ahead of Sunday's NFC title game.