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Nuggets' Kenneth Faried: Starting Saturday

Faried will start at power forward in Saturday's matchup with the Pistons, Harrison Wind of BSN Denver reports.

Analysis:

With the oversized frontcourt of Nikola Jokic and Jusuf Nurkic floundering in recent games, coach Michael Malone will move Jokic to the bench to afford Faried his first start of the season. Malone tends to spread the frontcourt minutes around wildly from contest to contest depending on matchups and game flow, so it's not guaranteed that Faried will receive a substantial boost in the 23.6 minutes per game he's averaged thus far in 2016-17. He's also far from a lock to stick around in the starting lineup beyond Saturday's game.

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