The NBA has released each team’s game schedule, meaning not only are we finally closer to the 2017-2018 season starting, but we can also get a better outlook of the upcoming season and use it to (foolishly?) analyze and predict how we think our favorite team will perform.
For the Denver Nuggets, this season represents a critical point in the current era of the franchise. The team has missed the postseason for four years running now, and after coming so close last year to miss the playoffs yet again would be a disaster. However, outside of Western Conference shoe-ins Golden State, San Antonio and Houston, on paper there are at least eight legitimate teams (Oklahoma City, Minnesota, Los Angeles Clippers, Denver, Utah, Memphis, New Orleans, Portland) contending for the five remaining spots.