Short-handed Jazz outlast Nuggets

Photo by Alex Goodlett/Getty ImagesThe Utah Jazz and the Denver Nuggets battled for fourth place in the West on Wednesday night. Both teams have had major struggles with having a healthy roster this season and both teams came in to this game depleted and missing their biggest stars. Utah did have all-star Mike Conley available tonight to steady the ship so to speak, but Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert can’t get healthy soon enough so we can get this team back in sync. The Jazz did come out a rare clutch win tonight in the first of a six game home stand and they played well compared to how they have looked in the last month.

Even though the Nuggets were without MVP Nikola Jokic, they still…