DENVER -- There’s much at stake in the late-season, home-and-home series between the Trail Blazers and Nuggets, which starts Friday night at the Pepsi Center in Denver (tipoff scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on NBC Sports Northwest and ESPN.
With the Nuggets leading the Trail Blazers by two games with four games to play for the two-seed and the top spot in the Northwest Division (though the Nuggets own the tiebreaker) and the Blazers leading the Jazz by the same margin for the four-seed (the Jazz own that tiebreaker as well), the next two games will likely have serious ramifications in the Western Conference playoff table.