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Faried impressed with London crowd: 'We don't have fans like that'

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With the Denver Nuggets in London to play the Indiana Pacers as part of the NBA's Global Games series, Kenneth Faried finally got to feel what it's like to have a crowd cheer you on.

The Nuggets took care of the Pacers easily with a wire-to-wire 140-112 win, bringing them within 1.5 games of Portland for the eighth spot in the Western Conference. Faried - who had an efficient 15 points and nine rebounds in 16 minutes off the bench - got to enjoy the game a little more than usual because one, his team got the win, and two, he had an actual crowd cheering him and his teammates on.

After, Faried praised the London crowd for their support, while simultaneously throwing shade at the Nuggets' hometown crowd.

"For us, at home, we don't have fans like that, like that's just packing the arena every night like the Golden State Warriors, or like a Memphis, or some of the top teams in the league, San Antonio," Faried said during Altitude TV's postgame coverage. "But when we do get fans like that, that's the results we put out because we feed off them."

Faried has a point.

Denver currently sits dead last in the NBA in attendance at roughly 13,700 people per game. However, throwing your fan base under the bus may not be the best way to go about it for the Nuggets forward.

Faried, who has played with Denver the entirety of his six-year career, credits the crowd in London for bringing energy to the Nuggets, and giving them a taste of something they weren't used to.

"I think everybody just came in, we saw the crowd, like I said we don't play in front of crowds like that all the time so we wanted to show out," Faried continued. "We are a good team and we do deserve to have people come to our games, at home."

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