Nuggets eye 10th straight win as depleted Grizzlies visit

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The surging Denver Nuggets are fighting for the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference -- and fighting their porous 3-point defense.

Denver (51-28), which has won nine in a row, goes for the first 10-game winning streak in the Nikola Jokic era when it hosts the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday night. On paper it looks like a mismatch in the Nuggets' favor, but Mond