On a five-game winning streak while pushing toward the top of the Western Conference, the Denver Nuggets will try to overcome one of their early-season challenges.

The Nuggets will face the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday night in Inglewood, Calif. The road has been unkind for the Nuggets, who are 6-0 in Denver and 2-2 away from home.

The game Wednesday will be the second of a three-game trip and part of a stretch of five of six games played away from Denver. The Nuggets earned a 122-108 victory at Sacramento on Tuesday and will face the Clippers 24 hours later.

"It's exactly that; it's just the road. It's the intensity of the crowd that is working against you as opposed to what it was this whole last week (at home)," Nuggets coach David Adelman said. "... The Clippers are the Clipper

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