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The Nuggets went on a four-game alley cruise in October, a six-game cruise in December and a seven-game cruise in March. Meanwhile, the longest alley cruise for the Timberwolves and Thunder, who play in the aforementioned assay as Denver? Three games.Denver was aswell one of abandoned two teams to yield a seven-game trip, the added accepting the Knicks, and the abandoned aggregation to yield two trips of at atomic six amateur this season NBA Live Mobile Coins."To me, that is mind-blowing," Malone says. "Again, the NBA can't accumulate everybody happy, and I'm constant a lot of adapted things go into it, but if you acquire as abounding boxy amateur as we've had and agenda active amateur ..."