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7. Denver Nuggets
For all the chatter about how everyone wants to play them and how crazy it is
to see a No. 3 seed start the playoffs on the road, Denver isn't doing too
much complaining. Maybe that's because the Nuggets remember last season's
playoffs and the season before, when they had to open against powerhouses.
In Carmelo Anthony's rookie season, Denver was ousted in the first round by
the only Garnett-led Minnesota squad to ever win a playoff series. Last
spring, it was a physical opening-round matchup with the eventual champs from
San Antonio. Facing the Clippers now, even without the home-court advantage
and even after losing the teams' last three regular-season meetings, doesn't
sound so bad. Especially since George Karl's Nuggets, happen to have the best
player in the series in 'Melo, which always helps.
Being the road team in every round, furthermore, is better than being in the
San Antonio-Dallas bracket. So Denver has that in its favor, too.
As always seems to be the case with these guys, injuries are the biggest
worry, more than venues or the opposition. Earl Boykins is just coming back
after a month-long absence with a broken hand, Greg Buckner and Eduardo
Najera are dinged up as well and Karl believes he has to keep Kenyon Martin
in the 25-minute range for Martin to make any kind of contribution in his
ongoing (and labored) recovery from microfracture knee surgery. That
predictably upsets K-Mart, but no one wants it to be different more than
Karl, who really could use a full-strength front line (Nene's out as well,
remember) after labeling the Clips as the West's "best post-up team."
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