Jazz -8 over Nuggets (5)
Just getting the early season Nuggets fade going starting tonight who I expect to regress significantly this season. Even without D-Williams and Harpring this Jazz team owns the Nuggets and are far too deep for them. Nuggets will be severely shorthanded for this encounter having already lost Melo through suspension, Sonny Weems, Chucky Atkins and Steven Hunter all carrying injuries and AI having a less than ideal preseason missing 4 of 7 games due to a sore left knee and sprained right ankle.
Jazz own the Nuggets as their recent series history suggests winning 3 of 4 meetings last season and 9 of the last 12.