Preview: Heat at Nuggets

When/Where: 9 p.m., Pepsi Center, Denver

TV: Fox Sports Sun; 790-AM, 106.3-FM, 710-AM (Spanish), 1140-AM (Spanish), 760-AM (Spanish)

Scouting report: This is the second game of the two-game season series. … The Nuggets won the first meeting, 103-99, Jan. 8 at AmericanAirlines Arena, behind 29 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists from center Nikola Jokic. The Heat lost despite committing only six turnovers, with no Heat player scoring more than Dion Waiters’ 15 points. … The Nuggets are seeking to sweep the two-game series for the first time since 2008-09 (Denver won the series 1-0 when the teams met only once, in Denver, during the lockout-shortened 2011-12 season). … The Heat had won two in a row at the Pepsi Center before last season’s 95-94 loss. … The game is the fourth stop on a five-game trip for the Heat, concluding the Heat’s eighth back-to-back set of the season, with a 4-3 record on the second nights of such pairings. … The game comes after a two-day break for the Nuggets, who are returning from a four game trip. … Denver enters on a three-game losing streak, after winning their previous six, coming off Friday’s 117-100 loss in Philadelphia, when Jokic had 27 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists. … Goran Dragic (knee) and Derrick Jones Jr. (knee) are out for the Heat, with Yante Maten on G League assignment. … For the Nuggets, Paul Millsap (ankle) is questionable, with Isaiah Thomas (hip), Michael Porter Jr. (back) and Gary Harris (adductor) out.