On the bottom of a cardboard sheet outlining Monday’s practice plan for the Nuggets, the numbers were written in bold red letters, underlined and punctuated with a pair of exclamation points.
“7-3 in the last 10 games!!”
It wasn’t just coach Michael Malone’s impressive penmanship that made the message clear. The Nuggets, with two more games left before the all-star break, are playing perhaps the best basketball of their season. Put together a couple more stretches like the one they produced over the last couple weeks and Denver will likely find itself in the playoffs for the first time since 2013.