Peyton Watson has developed elite chemistry with Nikola Jokic and become Denver's top defender, but his breakout season may have officially priced him out of the Nuggets' future.

Reed Sheppard had 28 points off the bench, complementing another big game from Kevin Durant as the Rockets ended a two-game losing streak in Denver.

Denver coach David Adelman was ejected Saturday for the first time in his NBA coaching career. Adelman, who took over from Michael Malone with three games left in last year's regular season and got the full-time job after leading Denver into the second round of the NBA playoffs,

The Nuggets sit as the No. 2 team in the Western Conference, the Avalanche have the best record in the NHL, and the Broncos have the best record in the NFL.

Houston can come away with a win here, but they will need to bring their A game and hope for a little luck from the basketball gods given the way things have been unfolding.

The last time the Houston Rockets were in Denver, they left angry and defeated. Five days later they have a chance to rewrite the ending when they return to face the Nuggets on Saturday afternoon.

In a sign of how quickly fortunes can flip in the parity-filled NFL, Denver (12-2) now boasts one of the league's best defenses, a quarterback it believes in and an 11-game winning streak.

So, the Flyers called up right wing Denver Barkey from the Lehigh Valley Phantoms to make his NHL debut. Barkey, 20, was selected by the Flyers in the third round (95th overall) of the 2023 NHL Entry Draft. The Newmarket, Ontario native was a member of the former two-time Memorial Cup champion London Knights.

Denver's Mile High Drone Show, the popular holiday-season show that lights up the city's skies with drones, its Christkindlmarket, and the Mile High Tree have been canceled for Wednesday due to dangerously high winds.

Colorado Department of Transportation officials have closed highways in west metro Denver amid weather forecasts of severe wind gusts and critical fire conditions.