The Houston Rockets (26-12) travel to play the Denver Nuggets (24-15) on Wednesday at Ball Arena, the first game this season between the two teams. The Rockets won the season series 3-1 in 2023-24, with Alperen Şengün averaging 20.

Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic and forward Aaron Gordon are not playing in the team's home game against the Houston Rockets on Wednesday night.Jokic injured his elbow during warmups and was ruled out before the start of the game while Gordon is out due to right calf injury management.

The Nuggets got some bad news prior to Wednesday's game against the Rockets. Not only was Aaron Gordon ruled out with right calf injury management an hour before Denver hosted Houston in a battle ...

HOUSTON — This was the third meeting of ... Morant compared the predicament to when Nikola Jokic and Aaron Gordon of the Denver Nuggets put teams in the same situation. "Playing two, it's ...

Green stayed hot and helped Huston push the lead to 55-37 with 3:23 left in the second. After the Nuggets tried to cut into the deficit, Green made four free throws, fed Sengun for a jumper and scored the last six points of the half to give the Rockets a 69-46 lead at intermission.

Gordon, who is tied for fourth on the team with 13.4 points per game, has played in just 19 of Denver's 40 games including Wednesday's contest. Jokic leads the team in scoring (30.6), rebounding ...

Lost in the excitement of the New York Jets hiring a new head coach Wednesday is the reality that fans have gone through this song and dance before. They aren't necessarily wrong to feel this way, either. New York has hired all but one head coach from a defensive background since the Johnson family bought the team in 2000.

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Buoyed by their hard-fought victory against the Dallas Mavericks, the Timberwolves will head into Saturday's clash with renewed confidence as they look to secure their first home win since January 7. However, we predict Jokic will lead Denver to another victory as they continue to climb the conference standings.

Aaron Gordon, the Nuggets' typical starting power forward, has come off the bench in five consecutive appearances since returning from his second calf strain of the season. Denver has won all five games since,

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