I’m not a schedule maker, and I know it’s not an easy task to fit in 82 games for 30 teams over six months when factoring in travel and arena availability and so on and so forth. But I find it hard to believe the league can’t find a way to avoid scheduling road back-to-backs where the second night the traveling team has to visit Denver.
Alas, they have not, and so the Toronto Raptors — fresh off their 117-112 win over the Phoenix Suns — will travel one time zone backwards and into the “mile high” altitude to take on the Denver Nuggets.