True, the Lakers have mostly been a mess since winning the 2020 championship in that year’s NBA bubble, when they ousted the Nuggets from the Western Conference Finals along the way. (Very regrettably, it was recently announced that this year’s second overall draft pick Chet Holmgren will miss the entire season, or he would undoubtedly be OKC’s top draw.) But as enjoyable as those players may be to watch, at the end of the day, this one is all about the big homecoming for Murray and MPJ. Loaded with fun, young players, the Thunder have some real talent in guys like Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Josh Giddy. And though it may also be good for the purpose of winning that OKC isn’t top-flight competition, they should not be underestimated as easy pushovers. to regular season action on their home court at Ball Arena will have to wait until the team’s third game of the season, when Denver hosts the Oklahoma City Thunder in their home opener. In an unfortunate development for Nuggets fans (and arguably a bigtime blunder by the NBA schedule makers), the long-awaited return of Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr. October 22, 2022, vs Oklahoma City, 9:00 PM It’s Jamal Murray versus Steph Curry, and a chance for the Nuggets not only to get a small measure of revenge, but also to demonstrate that things might have gone differently had they been at full strength in the postseason. So for the first game on this list I’ve gone with Denver’s second game of the season, also away, but in a much more captivating matchup against the defending champion Golden State Warriors – who just so happened to eliminate Denver in the playoffs last April. While the Nuggets will open their regular season on the road against the Utah Jazz, the wind got taken out of the sails of what might have been a marquee game after Rudy Gobert got traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves, rendering Utah a rebuilding, or at least semi-rebuilding team. 18 Denver Nuggets Games To Circle On Their 2022-23 Season Schedule
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