The Nuggets biggest game of the season so far is here as the Nuggets face the rockets on Friday in Houston.

We'll break it down.

We'll give you the lay of the lamb.

We'll give you the big matchups.

Can Yokic take out Alpern Shangoon?

Plus, Peyton Watson's emergence and what it means for his future.

All that and more.

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to get started all right swiva tomorrow night is the biggest game of the season like I so far, because you never know when the next big game of the season is going to come. But it's Rockets Nuggets. The Thunder are up there and they're doing their thing and they're beating everybody by 20 and they're a beast and they're going to be hard to beat and we'll deal with them when we get to them. But this Rockets team, you know, everyone kind of thought like, ooh, are the Rockets going to be the second best team in the Western Conference when they got Kevin Durant? And then they lost Fred Van Bleet. And everyone was kind of like, no, it's probably Denver. It's probably going to be Denver. And now, like, it's a real battle. Like, this is going to be an absolutely huge game. It's huge for standings.

It's huge for cup play, which I don't like the nuggets I think want to make it,

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