The Denver Nuggets welcome the Sacramento Kings to Colorado at Ball Arena on Wednesday.

The Kings haven't been in the postseason since the 2005-06 season but things appear to be changing. While they might not get there this year, Sacramento is finally doing a good job of building a young core to achieve that goal. Draft picks like De'Aaron Fox and Marvin Bagley have serious upside while the additions of Hassan Whiteside, Buddy Hield and Richaun Holmes over recent years fill out that core. That does bring up an interesting dilemma though and that's how they're going to divvy up the minutes between Holmes and Whiteside. Both of these guys can be dominant presences in the frontcourt and one has to believe that they'll play more than just 24 minutes a game. If they can figure that out and sure up their frontcourt while getting 20-plus points from Fox and Hield, this is a team to look out for.

The Nuggets always fly under the radar but they're always playing big games at the end of the season. That was certainly the case last year, when they beat the Los Angeles Clippers in the Western Conference Semifinals, marking one of the most surprising upsets over the last decade. What people don't realize about that upset is the fact that Denver has finished top-3 in the west in back-to-back seasons. That's even better when you consider the fact that Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr are the three-best players on this team and all three are just coming into their own. All of those guys are very young and it's scary to think that they'll only get better from here on out. What does worry fans is the fact that they didn't do much in the offseason and that's never good with so many other teams improving around them.

Denver won two of the three meetings with Sacramento last season and are victorious in 10 of their last 12 games against the Kings.