Julian Strawther scored a season-high 20 points and the short-handed Denver Nuggets built a 23-point lead before hanging on to beat the slumping Milwaukee Bucks 102-100.

The Denver Nuggets will be severely shorthanded against the Milwaukee Bucks.

Giannis Antetokounmpo sat the final 34 seconds as the Nuggets held off a fourth quarter rally to beat the Bucks, 102-100, on Jan. 23.

Denver enters Friday’s game with a 30-15 record after defeating the Washington Wizards on the road on Thursday night. In Thursday’s victory over the Wizards, Peyton Watson led the way for the Nuggets as he recorded 35 points, eight rebounds and three assists while Jamal Murray added 24 points, four rebounds and five assists of his own.

Giannis Antetokounmpo thinks he will be out for an extended period after hurting his right calf again, following the Bucks loss to the Nuggets on Friday night.

The Denver Nuggets went into Friday's game with only ten available players, and things managed to get even worse when Aaron Gordon exited the contest with an in

The NBA has postponed Sunday's Denver Nuggets at Memphis Grizzlies game due to weather conditions, as large swaths of the United States face inclement winter weather. The high in Memphis on Sunday was 18 degrees Faranheit. This weekend's winter storm has shifted the schedules of NBA games and college sports across the country.

The Denver Nuggets stay on the road Friday night with a trip to Milwaukee to face Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Bucks. The game is scheduled to start at 9:30 p.m. ET (8:30 p.m. CT) with streaming exclusively on Amazon Prime.

The Denver Nuggets visit the Milwaukee Bucks Friday night for a 9:30 p.m. ET tip from Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.