The first #PelicansGameday of our three-game road trip begins tonight ⛰️
— New Orleans Pelicans (@PelicansNBA) April 28, 2021
🏀 at Denver
🕗 8 p.m. CT
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Tonight we're on the road as we take on the 40-21 Denver Nuggets.
3rd in offense and 14th in defense this year, the Nuggets are 18-6 since the All-Star break and have won 6 of their last 7. Jokic has continued being the clear and evident MVP despite the loss of Jamal Murray, and Michael Porter Jr has been absolute flames, shooting 54.4% from 3 on about 8 attempts per game over the last 2 weeks.
There are a bunch of questions about how we're going to handle this game. Who gets the end-bench minutes? It's a back to back, do we see any minutes limits? How do we try to approach Jokic? All of these and more will be interesting narratives to follow in a game that I don't think many people expect us to have much of a chance to win. That said, we do sometimes play up to competition so it will be intriguing to see which version of the Pels shows up tonight.
Let's see what happens.