The talk regarding strategically resting players now hits the Mile High City.

Facing the Golden State Warriors and Sacramento Kings on consecutive nights, rumblings about the Denver Nuggets potentially giving its key starters a night off surfaced. The more logical choice, if rest is to happen, would then be against the league-leading Warriors.

But coach Mike Malone doesn’t see things that way.

“Somebody floated the idea that we play [Sacramento] in a back-to-back so maybe we should rest a few guys. That kinda goes against my DNA.”

“Just to be resigned to the fact that the percentages say that we only have a seven percent chance of winning and we are tied with [Sacramento] so maybe we should rest guys for [Sacramento]. I don’t subscribe to that. I think that is a bad message to send to our guys.”

Malone is known as a no-nonsense type of coach and that explains his old school approach to the team’s upcoming schedule. Denver could really use the experience of playing against an elite opponent such as Golden State, something its young players such as Emmanuel Mudiay and Nikola Jokic may get valuable lessons from.

The last time these two teams met, which was in early November of last year, the Nuggets were handily defeated by the Warriors, 101-125.