{"id":565030,"date":"2026-01-27T23:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/565030\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T23:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:27:17","slug":"preview-denver-nuggets-face-detroit-pistons-back-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/565030\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: Denver Nuggets face Detroit Pistons back at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a three-game road trip that turned out only to be two thanks to a massive winter storm, The Denver Nuggets are now back in the warm confines of Ball Arena with the Detroit Pistons in town. The Pistons are the surprise team of the year and are proving last year\u2019s return to the playoffs was no fluke. Bevvied by a young, blossoming core of Cade Cunningham, Jalen Duren &amp; Ausar Thompson, the Pistons find themselves as the top seeded team in the East and winners of fine of their last six games. The Nuggets will need their \u201cA\u201d game tonight.<\/p>\n<p>The Basics<\/p>\n<p>Who: Denver Nuggets (31-15) vs Detroit Pistons (33-11)<\/p>\n<p>When: 7PM MST<\/p>\n<p>Where: The Can. Denver, CO.<\/p>\n<p>How to watch\/listen: Altitude TV and Altitude Radio 92.5FM.<\/p>\n<p>Rival Blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitbadboys.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Bad Boys<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Matchup<\/p>\n<p>PositionNuggetsPistonsAdvantagePGJamal MurrayCade CunninghamEvenSGJalen PickettDuncan RobinsonPistonsSFPeyton WatsonAusar ThompsonNuggetsPFSpencer JonesTobias HarrisEvenCJonas ValanciunasJalen DurenPistonsBenchBruce Brown, Zeke Nnaji, Tim Hardaway Jr., Julian StrawtherIsaiah Stewart, Ronald Holland II, Daniss Jenkins, Jaden Ivey, Javonte GreenEven<\/p>\n<p>Injury report: Jamal Murray \u2013 probable (hamstring\/hip), Peyton Watson \u2013 probable (ankle), Jonas Valanciunas \u2013 probable (calf), Aaron Gordon \u2013 out (hamstring), Christian Braun \u2013 out (ankle), Cameron Johnson \u2013 out (knee), Tamar Bates \u2013 out (foot); Caris LeVert \u2013 out (illness), Isaac Jones \u2013 out (G-LEgue), Wendell Moore Jr. \u2013 out (G-League), Tolu Smith \u2013 out (G-League)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a three-game road trip that turned out only to be two thanks to a massive winter storm,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3781],"tags":[877,7,909,561,301,187,3943,188,912,762,6,253,302,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-565030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-aaron-gordon","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-cade-cunningham","11":"tag-christian-braun","12":"tag-denver","13":"tag-denver-nuggets","14":"tag-denvernuggets","15":"tag-detroit-pistons","16":"tag-jalen-duren","17":"tag-jamal-murray","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-nikola-jokic","20":"tag-nuggets","21":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115969657850375847","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}