The red-hot Denver Nuggets are back at Ball Arena on Saturday night for a Western Conference showdown with LeBron James, Luka Doncic and the Los Angeles Lakers.

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The Baltimore Orioles and Pittsburgh Pirates take the field Saturday afternoon in Sarasota for the 2025 MLB spring training opener for both sides.

In the Nuggets, the Lakers are facing a team that has been their personal slab of Kryptonite over the last couple of years. They have lost 13 of their last 14 games against Nikola Jokić and crew, and that includes their five-game defeat in the first round of last year's playoffs and their four-game sweep at the hands of the Nuggets in 2023.