It has been pretty remarkable to watch what the Nuggets have been dealing with this season, and especially the past few weeks, but it finally caught up to them on Sunday. They survived both legs of a road back-to-back earlier in the week and got through another first leg on Saturday, but on Sunday, it was time to pay the piper.
Denver had their second straight back-to-back (they had two days off in between), this time at home, and this time it was too much. Aaron Gordon sat out to rest, joining the injured Nikola Jokic, Cam Johnson, Christian Braun, and Jonas Valanciunas.