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Denver Nuggets<\/a> (48-28, fourth in the Western Conference) vs. Utah Jazz<\/a> (21-55, 14th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Salt Lake City; Wednesday, 9 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Utah aims to end its four-game home losing streak with a win over Denver.<\/p>\n

The Jazz are 1-13 in division play. Utah allows the most points in the Western Conference, giving up 125.4 points and is allowing opponents to shoot 49.2%.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets are 8-5 against the rest of their division. Denver is fifth in the league with 28.8 assists per game led by Nikola Jokic<\/a> averaging 10.8.<\/p>\n

The Jazz are shooting 46.6% from the field this season, 0.3 percentage points lower than the 46.9% the Nuggets allow to opponents. The Nuggets average 14.1 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.2 fewer made shots on average than the 15.3 per game the Jazz give up.<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the fourth time this season. The Nuggets won the last matchup 135-129 on March 28. Jokic scored 33 points to help lead the Nuggets to the win.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Kyle Filipowski<\/a> is shooting 49.5% and averaging 11.1 points for the Jazz. Ace Bailey<\/a> is averaging 3.1 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jokic is averaging 27.9 points, 12.9 rebounds and 10.8 assists for the Nuggets. Jamal Murray<\/a> is averaging 3.1 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Jazz: 1-9, averaging 116.8 points, 41.2 rebounds, 29.4 assists, 10.3 steals and 4.8 blocks per game while shooting 47.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 127.6 points per game.<\/p>\n

Nuggets: 8-2, averaging 127.0 points, 45.2 rebounds, 32.8 assists, 6.2 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 50.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.6 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Jazz: Lauri Markkanen<\/a>: out (hip), Isaiah Collier: out (hamstring), Keyonte George: out (leg), Walker Kessler: out for season (shoulder), Jusuf Nurkic: out for season (nose), Elijah Harkless: out (hamstring), Jaren Jackson<\/a> Jr.: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n

Nuggets: Zeke Nnaji: day to day (hip), Spencer Jones<\/a>: day to day (hamstring), Aaron Gordon: day to day (calf), Cameron Johnson<\/a>: day to day (back).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denver Nuggets (48-28, fourth in the Western Conference) vs. Utah Jazz (21-55, 14th in the Western Conference) Salt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[224,7,2726,301,187,3943,78812,762,496,1251,976,1407,6,253,302,26517,427],"class_list":["post-689495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denver-nuggets","tag-ace-bailey","tag-basketball","tag-cameron-johnson","tag-denver","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-denvernuggets","tag-event_preview","tag-jamal-murray","tag-jaren-jackson-jr","tag-kyle-filipowski","tag-lauri-markkanen","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-nikola-jokic","tag-nuggets","tag-spencer-jones","tag-utah-jazz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116322641726361909","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689495","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=689495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}