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Next for Hawks -- Denver Nuggets

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Dec 23, 2009

• When: 9 p.m. Wednesday

• TV; radio: FSSO; 790-AM

• Denver guard Carmelo Anthony has had five 40-point games this season.

• Nuggets guard Chauncey Billups (left abductor strain) has missed the past two games and is questionable.

• Denver is 12-1 at home, winning its last five at the Pepsi Center. The Nuggets average 114.6 points on their home floor, almost 14 points better than their road average.

• In their first of two meetings on Nov. 7, the Hawks routed the Nuggets 125-100 at Philips Arena. Seven Hawks scored in double figures.

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