Randy Wittman has made a couple changes in tonight’s starters against a Nuggets team that has thrived since acquiring Chauncey Billups from Detroit: Jason Collins gets the start at center after making his season debut with 13 minutes in Saturday’s home loss to Portland and Ryan Gomes goes in at small forward next to Al Jefferson at power forward, replacing Kevin Love, who had matchup problems against Kenyon Martin in two preseason games.

After Saturday’s 88-83 loss to the Blazers, Wittman referenced the film “Groundhog Day.”

Before Sunday’s game, he was asked if awoke that morning in Denver to Sonny and Cher’s “I Got You, Babe” and he was reminded that television weathercaster Phil Connors tried every which way to kill himself in that movie, including lugging a bed-and-breakfast toaster with him to the bathtub and rumbling down a  gravel road in a truck with the groundhog beside him (Don’t Drive Angry!) toward a cliff.

Asked if he was to that point yet, Wittman said, “No, definitely not. New day, new city, new game.”

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