For a stretch of 11 games spanning the end of the 2017 calendar year and January 19, the Denver Nuggets were entrenched in what was widely considered the team’s easiest stretch of the season. Several of the games came against teams with a worse record than Denver and seven of the games were at home, where the Nuggets have held a considerable advantage all year.
In theory, a budding playoff team would have ran the table during this stretch and taken advantage of the somewhat soft schedule. But this is the Denver Nuggets, and nothing seems to come easy for this franchise.