Los Angeles Lakers vs. Denver Nuggets

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The last Friday before the league disappears for a week has a particular restlessness to it. Everybody in the building knows the break is coming, the players are visibly aware of it, and whatever happens here has to last everybody nine days. Denver is the worst possible opponent to meet in that state - a genuinely elite side whose best player does things with a pass that only make sense from a seat where you can see the whole floor at once, which is the single strongest argument for going in person rather than watching. The half past seven tip is late enough to eat downtown first properly rather than hurriedly. Come to the one before the gap. The building always has more in it when there is nothing scheduled behind the fixture. Worth checking the injury news on the morning of a pre-break game, too - rested stars are far more common in the forty-eight hours before a league shutdown than at any other point in the calendar.