The defending NBA champs, Boston Celtics, will face off against the Western Conference juggernauts Oklahoma City Thunder in a must-watch clash of titans. Tipping off at TD Garden in Boston on March 12,

It will feel like a playoff atmosphere as the Western Conference-leading Oklahoma City Thunder host the Denver Nuggets, in a rare home back-to-back.

For live updates and highlights from the Thunder's game against the Nuggets, regularly check back to this post: Final: Nuggets 140, Thunder 127. The Nuggets showed out. 140 points

Many billed these back-to-back matchups between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Denver Nuggets as big decisive factors into who takes the definitive lead in this year's NBA MVP race between Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokic.

Telling reporters afterward that he's "playing the best basketball of my life," Denver star Nikola Jokic had 35 points, 18 rebounds and eight assists, as his Nuggets defeated the Western Conference-leading Oklahoma City Thunder 140-127 on Monday night.