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The win moved the Blazers (41-18) a season-high 23-games over .500.After failing to make the playoffs last season, Portland sits in third place inthe Western Conference. Robin Lopez led the Blazers in scoring for the firsttime this season with 18 points, while Nicolas Batum had a career-high 16rebounds. "That was a solid win for us," said Blazers coach Terry Stotts. "Wedid a lot of good things. I felt like we were in control for the most part."Kenneth Faried, Randy Foye and Evan Fournier scored 16 points apiece, but Denver(25-33) lost its fifth straight. Faried, who also had 10 rebounds, took a hardfall with less than two minutes left and appeared to injure his right knee, butfinished out the game. Portland won all four meetings this season againstDenver, its first sweep of the series since the 1999 season, when the Blazerswon all three games against the Nuggets. Damian Lillards driving layup gavePortland a 100-87 lead with 4:09 left in the game and the Nuggets never reallychallenged. Lillard finished with 17 points. The Blazers had a bit of a restafter a 124-80 rout of Brooklyn on Wednesday night. The Nets played in Denverthe next night, routing the Nuggets 112-89. "The effort was there and it wassomething to build off of because everybody -- the whole city of Denver -- afterthat loss to Brooklyn had a sour taste in our mouth," Foye said. "We just wantedto get back out there and try to give the fanss something to cheerabout.dddddddddddd" The Nuggets have won just one of their last 11 games.Aldridge was greeted with a roar from the crowd at the Moda Center when he wasannounced as a starter. "It felt good," Aldridge said. "My timing was a littleoff but it felt good to be back out there playing with the guys." Second-yearcentre Meyers Leonard also returned after a five-game absence because of asprained right ankle. But the Blazers did not have forwards Thomas Robinson, whohas a left knee injury, and Joel Freeland, with a right knee sprain. The Nuggetswere hurting, too. Top scorer Ty Lawson missed his ninth straight game with aleft rib fracture. But guard Aaron Brooks, acquired before the trade deadlinefrom Houston, played despite a sore ankle, and Wilson Chandler returned aftermissing a game because of a right knee sprain. Denver closed within 52-47 latein the half after a pair of free throws from Faried, but Lopezs dunk andLillards layup helped push Portlands lead to 56-48 at the break. Lopez led allplayers with 12 points. Lillard, Batum and Leonard had consecutive dunks to givethe Blazers an early 22-12 lead. The Blazers stretched the lead to 73-60 in thethird quarter on Batums finger-roll layup. Nuggets coach Brian Shaw said heliked the effort after the loss to Brooklyn, but pointed to missed free throws.Denver was 23 of 35 from the line. "You lose the game by six points and you miss12 free throws, that can be the difference in the game," Shaw said. 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