Dallas Mavericks 112, Denver Nuggets 92
Denver Nuggets 132, Portland Trail Blazers 120
Denver Nuggets 127, New York Knicks 114
Power Rankings
Current: 19
Last week: 20
How much satisfaction did it give the Nuggets to drub the visiting Knicks in a game Carmelo Anthony had declared a must-win for the New Yorkers? How much satisfaction did it give Kenneth Faried to lead the way for Denver with 25 points just days removed from a surprising DNP-CD in Washington and a mere eight-minute stint in Dallas? Those are the easy questions in the Rocky Mountains, where what they really want to know is whether Mike Malone has finally found something after moving both Wilson Chandler and Nikola Jokic into the starting lineup.