Without Zeke Nnaji, the Nuggets might have finished their marathon road trip two games worse.

Denver finished3-4 on a road trip that seemed doomed after a loss to Brooklyn on Sunday.

These are the stories nine Nuggets bench players and their coach will tell decades from now about a peculiar basketball game in Philadelphia.

“I thought we used him the right way,” Adelman said of MPJ. “I’m sure he would disagree with me completely, which is OK. But yeah, we won a lot of games doing it that way.”

Jalen Pickett led the Nuggets with 29 points on a 7-for-11 shooting night beyond the arc.

‘At a young age,’ Miami Heat and Team USA coach Erik Spoelstra said, ‘we all just felt David would be the best of all of us.’