The Denver Nuggets travel to Arizona to face the Phoenix Suns at Talking Stick Resort Arena on Saturday.

The Nuggets (36-16) are coming off one of their best wins of the season, going into Salt Lake City and grabbing a comeback victory over the Utah Jazz. While that's obviously a tough environment to win in, it's the status of the Nuggets that made it so impressive. Not only did they ship off a few guys at the trade deadline, half of the roster was also seemingly injured. That left them with just seven players in the second half of a back-to-back set and winning like that in Utah is obviously impressive. Malik Beasley, Juancho Hernangomez and Jared Vanderbilt were the players shipped off while Jordan McRae and Noah Vonleh were the guys brought in. Those are all bench players but it needed to be noted. These guys come into a great situation too, with Denver winning 10 of their last 14 games in total, vying for the two-seed in the west.

The Suns (21-31) picked up a win over the Houston Rockets on Friday which actually snapped a five-game losing streak. That stretch tells you pretty much everything you need to know about this organization, mixing stellar performances with mostly poor play. That's unfortunately what this team has been doing for years now and it makes no sense why they're so far out of it despite having a core with Devin Booker, Deandre Ayton, Ricky Rubio and Kelly Oubre Jr. That's way too much talent for a team 10 games below .500 and it's about time that the players on the court start matching what management is doing up top.

This concludes the four-game season series between these teams, with Denver looking for the sweep. In fact, the Nuggets have won 14 of their last 16 games over the Suns in total.