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Utah Jazz v Denver Nuggets
NBA Regular Season
Saturday 8 May 2021
Vivint Smart Home Arena, Salt Lake City, Utah
Tip-off at 04:00 CAT
The Utah Jazz will target an emphatic win over the Denver Nuggets when the teams meet in an
NBA Regular Season game at the Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah on the morning of Saturday 8 May 2021. Tip-off is at 04:00 CAT.
The Jazz had mixed results over this past weekend, losing out to fellow high-flyers the Phoenix Suns, before showing great grit and determination to come from behind and defeat the Toronto Raptors.
"This one feels good because it was a fight," Rudy Gobert said. "Nothing was given to us. We had to go get it over 48 minutes."
Jazz coach Quin Snyder added, "We were switching things when we needed to. We were helping each other. We were physical."
Yet Utah will be worried that after being at or near the top of the Western Conference for so long, they could be running out of steam at just the wrong time.
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The Nuggets, meanwhile, have been one of the Western Conference’s ‘best of the rest’ behind the Suns and the Jazz, and will be looking to test themselves against one of the season’s standard-setters with the Playoffs just around the corner.
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“We are winning games. The offense hasn't been pretty, but it has been a top-five defense as of late," Nuggets coach Michael Malone said after an impressive 110-104 win over the Los Angeles Clippers this past weekend.
"[Nikola] Jokic showed once again on the road against a good team why he is the front-runner for MVP. He puts the team on his back. That is what big players do."
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In head-to-head stats, the Jazz and the Nuggets have met in 200 Regular Season games since 1976-77, with Utah claiming 116 wins compared to 84 for Denver. The teams last met in the Regular Season in January 2021, with the Nuggets claiming a 128-117 win thanks to 47 points from Nikola Jokic.
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Utah Jazz v Denver Nuggets – Head-to-head
Regular Season games played: 200
Jazz wins: 116
Nuggets wins: 84
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