You can't win them all, and for the Boston Celtics, that dictum became reality against the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday (Jan. 7) night at TD Garden as the Nuggets, down a number of key players, still mustered the poise to outwork the Celtics on their own home court to secure the win.

The Denver Nuggets are optimistic Nikola Jokic could return from his knee injury by the All-Star break, offering hope amid critical stretch.

Denver Gazette beat writer Vinny Benedetto takes you around the NBA and inside the Nuggets locker room: NBA Insider That wasn’t a road trip. That was an odyssey. The Nuggets left for their epic journey,

The Denver Nuggets were down a Most Valuable Player-caliber candidate in Nikola Jokic, and the Boston Celtics without their own in Jayson Tatum. But if you ask Nuggets head coach David Adelman, neither of these two absences proved critical in Denver stealing a win off Boston on their own home court despite playing with a number of key players on the sidelines for both ball clubs.

NEW YORK — When the Denver Nuggets lost Nikola Jokić to a hyperextended knee on Dec. 29, they felt the collective loss of this year’s NBA MVP frontrunner and arguably the best basketball player in the world. But the Nuggets aren’t running from the challenge of what’s behind them this season and what’s still to come — they are embracing it.

Bruce Brown scores 19 points, including the winning bucket in overtime, to lead the Denver Nuggets to a 125-124 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday night.

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

Denver has suffered a rash of injuries, including to Nikola Jokić. Luckily, Murray is playing at an All-Star level after a summer of rest.

We expect a Celtics win, but Denver has played well even banged up as they are now, and Boston will be down more than Jayson Tatum for this game.

The Atlanta Hawks embark on a four-game Western Conference road trip a different team than the one that began 2026.