Tonight at 10:30 p.m. the Oklahoma City Thunder (27-8) will tip off at the Pepsi Center in Denver where the Nuggets (17-17) will try to re-establish the fear factor their thin air used to inspire in opponents. Watch the game on TNT or live stream it here. Oklahoma City fans can listen to the game on WWLS 98.1, while Nuggets fans may do the same on 93.7 Mile High Sports.
Oklahoma City has won the first two meetings between these two divisional rivals this year, with the Thunder trying to rebound from a loss to the lowly Utah Jazz despite a season-high point total from Kevin Durant.
"(I want to see) toughness and even more toughness and some fight," Durant said after putting up 48 points in a loss. "We just have to stay together. We lost a basketball game on the road. It's not the end of the world. ... We just have to regroup and be better next game."
To be fair to OKC, Russell Westbrook is out until the All-Star break, and they played without Serge Ibaka as well, arguably the NBA's best rim protector. "We were missing one of the best presences at the rim, if not the best, in the league," said point guard Reggie Jackson. "He cleans up a lot of our mistakes."
Denver is starting to click now, and may be primed to get their first W against the Thunder.
"Coach (Brian Shaw) let us hoop. He just let us get out and play," forward Kenneth Faried said. "He figured out that this altitude is a killer for teams and the personnel that we have is people who will get out and run, play great defense and it's fun when we do that instead of just calling plays all the time. It has really helped and it got the burden off our back of wondering what he wants."
During their current three-game winning streak the Nuggets are averaging 125.7 points per game on 53 percent shooting.
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