As the 2025-26 NBA season crawls closer, the Nuggets have their roster, and now they have a schedule. To make sense of it and to predict Denver’s win total, we’ve broken it down into six arbitrary chunks of about 10 to 20 games each.
October 23 – Nov. 8: Honeymoon phase
Setting the tone for an altogether choppy and inconvenient six months of travel, the Nuggets will board a plane after each of their first five games. They open at Golden State, where the Warriors — as of this week — remain the only team yet to complete an offseason move.