Besides the Los Angeles Lakers and the San Antonio Spurs there has been no better team in the West this season than the reborn Denver Nuggets. Chauncey Billups has brought new life to his hometown team and more importantly a good defense.

The Phoenix Suns on the other hand are and the verge of a serious rebuilding period. Steve Nash is still a great point guard, Jason Richardson was a great addition and Shaq seems to be playing like the Lakers Shaq, well kind of, but they are definitely not the dominant team they used to be only a couple of seasons ago.

With that being said I think the sports books giving the Suns -3.5 points in this game is ridiculous, the Nuggets are a much better team and are on a nice win streak. The key here is that the Nuggets have a pretty good defense and the Suns D is damn near non existent.

Taking the Nuggets over the Suns is a no brainer. Take advantage of the sports book putting faith in the Suns offense instead of the Denver D.