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Kiszla: Call these Nuggets the Denver Whatevs, who can’t-be-bothered with consistent championship effort

They are the Denver Whatevs, the most bored and can’t-be-bothered 7-3 team in the NBA.

“I don’t know if our guys are coming into home games just expecting, ‘Hey, we’re going to win, just because we’re at home and our fans are going to carry us.’ I’m not sure what it is,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone said Tuesday, after a head-scratching stinker in the Pepsi Center.

Hey, bad nights happen during the grind of a long season. But how does a Denver team that fancies itself a championship contender roll over and get embarrassed 125-121 by Atlanta?