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Stat of the Week: How Michael Porter Jr. unlocks the Nuggets as contenders

On around March 12th, the Denver Nuggets season appeared lost in more ways than one.

Denver participated in a fateful March 11th contest against the Dallas Mavericks, losing 113-97 in a game that both underscored the world’s larger issues as well as those of the Nuggets. A pandemic was quickly spreading throughout the United States, and it finally impacted the sports world that night. Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell tested positive for coronavirus, and the NBA season was postponed during the second quarter of Nuggets-Mavericks. During that game, Denver’s players looked less engaged than normal, and who could blame them?