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The Denver Nuggets go for their season-high fifth straight win and their 17th in 21 games with Chauncey Billups in the lineup tonight when they visit the Houston Rockets, who could be without Ron Artest for the fourth time in five games.

Artest has missed three of the team's last four games with a sore right ankle and is listed as day-to-day.

After opening the season 1-3 without Billups, Denver is 16-4 (12-7-1 ATS) since the point guard’s debut with the team. The Nuggets are averaging 109.9 points and shooting 49.9 percent from the field while winning nine of their last 11 games.

The Rockets should benefit at home, where they've won four straight to improve to 7-3.

The Nuggets averaged 85.0 points and shot 38.6 percent from the field to lose both of last season's visits to Houston, where they're 3-10 since the beginning of the 2001-02 season.

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