Despite mounting injuries, long road trips and quality opponents, the Denver Nuggets have continued to be successful. However, they faced a very tough challenge with the Toronto Raptors, aka the team with the best record in the NBA, in their arena. Toronto was also facing a rash of injuries though which worked in the Nuggets favor. They were without star point guard Kyle Lowry, promising young forward Pascal Siakam and Fred VanVleet, a sixth man of the year candidate last season. Nonetheless the Nuggets and Raptors each had their star players in Nikola Jokic and Kawhi Leonard respectively and they led to an entertaining back and forth affair that went down to the very final moments.
Recap: Denver Nuggets outlast Toronto Raptors in a defensive battle, win 95-86.
