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The Denver Nuggets are one of the best teams in the NBA at home and will resume a three-game residency Friday night versus the struggling Indiana Pacers at the Pepsi Center in Denver, CO. The Denver Nuggets posted their 3rd straight win as the host in Wednesday’s 119-90 blowout of the Oklahoma City Thunder in the opener of this homestand. Melo netted 30 points and Nene added 20 for the Nuggets, who pushed their home record to 26-5.The thunder is a playoff team right now and for us to go out there and do what we did tonight, it just boosts our confidence,” Anthony said of the big win.

The Nuggets are third in the Western Conference standings, just a half-game behind the Dallas Mavericks for the No. 2 spot.

Indiana will resume a four-game road trip Friday and has lost the first two legs of the trek. It suffered a 102-79 loss at Portland its last time out Wednesday in the Rose Garden, where Danny Granger was the only scoring threat for Indiana after netting 30 points in the club’s fifth loss in six games overall.

T.J. Ford posted nine points for the Pacers, who have lost four in a row on the road and are 7-25 away from Indianapolis this season.

“I think they are a heck of a defensive team,” Pacers head coach Jim O’Brien said of the Blazers. “I think they took us out of a lot of our plays. We had a difficult time getting the ball into the low post.”

The Pacers will also visit Phoenix on the current road swing.

Denver defeated Indiana, 111-93, back on November 3 at Conseco Fieldhouse behind a 24-point effort from Billups. The Nuggets have won nine of their last 11 matchups with the Pacers. Kurt Poway of Oddsboard.com covered that game with an easy winner. Please follow all of the documented picks at Expert NBA Picks blog site monitor.

Oddsmakers have Denver 0-10 and partly due to the road weary Pacers who are on a current snide. Don’t look for them to bounce back tonight as Denver and Carmelo will roll it up at home in Mile High.

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