The Portland Trail Blazers continue their three-game trip with two games at the Denver Nuggets on Monday and Wednesday. This is a precarious stretch for the Blazers, who lost Saturday at Minnesota.

Nikola Jokic scored 40 points, Christian Braun had 26 points, and the surging Denver Nuggets beat the Portland Trail Blazers ...

Denver faces the Portland Trail Blazers after Nikola Jokic scored 40 points in the Denver Nuggets' 146-117 victory against the Portland Trail Blazers.

The Denver Nuggets wrap up ... Cody Martin, Tre Mann, and Grant Williams, three key rotation players for Charlotte, will also miss Saturday's game. The Nuggets also have some significant absences.

Perhaps no other team in the NBA has such a distance between their best and second-best player than the Denver Nuggets ... Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has Jalen Williams, Jayson Tatum has Jaylen ...

The Denver Nuggets are capping off their five-game road trip Saturday night against ... Tidjane Salaun, and Grant Williams. LaMelo Ball is OUT with a left ankle sprain. Josh Okogie is OUT with ...