Utah Jazz vs. Denver Nuggets Game Thread

Man, both of these houses are in slight disrepair right now, huh? The Denver Nuggets are rebuilding again after the Carmelo Anthony trade with the New York Knicks. The Utah Jazz are on rebuild remix version unknown right now, solidly looking much worse than they did when they first made the Deron Williams trade to the New Jersey Brooklyn Nets. It seems like ages ago when Melo and Andrei Kirilenko were among the best small forwards in the division. Now? It's Kevin Durant and anyone's guess. The Jazz and Nuggets have tangled quite a bit over the year. They've met in the playoffs a few times. They split the season series last year. And they play four times this year, Utah has the 1-0 lead right now. The Jazz are 105-75 overall in the regular season, and a very tidy 70-20 in Utah. I would LOVE for the Utah Jazz to win again. You know, because the Jazz have lost four in a row and from what I'm reading on social media -- fans aren't really cool with that.

Starters:

• PG: Jameer Nelson vs. Raul Neto
  
• SG: Gary Harris vs. Rodney Hood
• SF: Danilo Gallinari vs. Gordon Hayward
• PF: Kenneth Faried vs. Trey Lyles
  
• C: Joffrey Lauvergne vs. Derrick Favors
  

Key Bench:

• Randy Foye vs. Trey Burke
• Will Barton vs. Alec Burks
• Kostas Papanikolaou vs. Joe Ingles
• Darrell Arthur vs. Trevor Booker
• Nikola Jokic vs. Jeff Withey

Injuries / Absences:

• Dante Exum (UTA Starting PG) -- Out
• Emmanuel Mudiay (DEN Starting PG) -- Out
• Rudy Gobert (UTA Starting C) -- Out
• Jusuf Nurkic (DEN Bench C) -- Out

GO JAZZ GO!