Denver Nuggets hopes to take a playoff position against Memphis Grizzlies in the last home matches of the normal season on Friday night after making a very needed win on the road.
Nuggets (48-32) ranks fourth at the crowded western conference on Friday night. The team’s head coach Michael Malone defeated Sacramento Kings 124-116 on Wednesday and ended a four-game patinage and announced that General Manager Calvin Booth would not extend his contract.
A win through Grizzlies will guarantee that Denver stays away from the game tournament and that the playoffs will remain on the road to have the advantage of home field in the first round.
A game separates Nuggets from seed 8, but if they win in Houston on Friday and later on Sunday, they can start playoffs at home.
Malone’s shooting with three games in the season, sent a concussion in the Denver locker room, and players missed the sixth flat match of Jamal Murray (Hamstring) on Wednesday.
After winning Kings, Nikola Jokic said, “I mean, when someone wants to wake someone or change the energy, that’s probably what they’re doing. “That’s why they certainly changed something and probably got their reaction.”
Jokic may be the third player to join Oscar Robertson and Russell Westbrook as a triple pair during the NBA history. Jokic, a center from Serbia, helps an average of 29.8 points, 12.8 rebounds and 10.2 a game, the numbers in the first third in the NBA in these categories.
Nuggets will benefit from playing a tired Memphis team. Grizzlies lost to 141-125 on Thursday night and fell from the sixth seed to the seventh in the west.
Memphis, Timberwolves and Golden State 47-33 records. Warriors have Tiebreaker on both teams, and Grizzlies is against Minnesota.
This makes a big game for Memphis on Friday night, because a loss can leave it to the eighth nest, which means hitting the road for the game playing game. A win would fold the season series against Nuggets and give Grizzlies the chance to finish the first quarter of the West.
Memphis is without Jaylen Wells, who is exposed to a broken wrist at the end of the season at Charlotte on Tuesday night. He had surgery on the wrist, but on Thursday morning he was at the team.
“It looks like good souls,” his teammate Vince Williams Jr. said. “Not everyone knows how you feel internal, but it’s good around us.”
Wells finished the season with an average of 10.4 points, while Ja Morant won 36 points to Minnesota, despite playing only 49 games in 49 games.
Jaren Jackson Jr. He came second with 22.2 points in the team and third in Desmond Bane 19.2.
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