31 games are a whole lot of games. Yet with the regular season approaching the final quarter pole, the playoffs are on the horizon. For the Denver Nuggets, who sit one game up for the eighth seed in the West, they’ll have to take care of business on the road from here on out to secure their first playoff bid in three years.
That notion might not mean getting a win against the Hawks in Atlanta where Dwight Howard, Paul Millsap, and Co. are just 15-11 this season. But starting a three-game trip, which takes Denver from Atlanta to New York and then to Cleveland, before returning home for a date with the Warriors, means the Nuggets must take care of business when the opportunities away from Pepsi Center present themselves.