Nuggets at Bobcats
7 p.m., Time Warner Cable Arena
TV: SportSouth. Radio: WFNZ-AM 610
Projected Starters
| Bobcats | Nuggets | ||||
| Pos, Player | PPG | RPG | Pos, Player | PPG | RPG |
| G, K. Walker | 17.4 | 3.4 | G, T. Lawson | 16.0 | 2.7 |
| G, G. Henderson | 13.1 | 3.7 | G, A. Iguodala | 13.2 | 5.5 |
| F, M. Kidd-Gilchrist | 9.1 | 5.7 | F, D. Gallinari | 17.3 | 5.5 |
| F. B. Mullens | 13.0 | 8.0 | F. K. Faried | 12.2 | 9.8 |
| C, B. Biyombo | 4.4 | 7.2 | C, K. Koufos | 8.0 | 6.5 |
Matchup to Watch
Byron Mullens vs. Kenneth Faried: Mullens has discovered this season just what a good rebounder he can be. Faried is one of the NBA’s best, both in athletic ability and persistence retrieving the ball.
Observations
• Former Tar Heel Ty Lawson is one of the NBA’s quickest point guards. He’s scored 20 or more in 11 of his last 17 games.
• Bobcats coach Mike Dunlap coached on the Nuggets staff. Now one of Dunlap’s former players at Denver-based Metropolitan State, Patrick Mutombo, is on George Karl’s staff.
• The Nuggets have a very advantageous schedule the rest of the way; Saturday night will be their 31st of 41 road games.
Tap-ins
• This is the Bobcats’ last home game before embarking on a four-game West Coast trip.
• The Nuggets thumped the Bobcats in Denver just before Christmas, winning 110-88. That’s the game when Byron Mullens sprained his left ankle severely.
Did you know?
The Nuggets flew cross-country to play just two games – at Washington on Friday and at Charlotte on Saturday.
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