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(SportsNetwork.com) - The Utah Jazz look to put an end to their five-game losing streak when the Denver Nuggets visit Salt Lake City Monday night. The Jazz opened a four-game homestand with Saturdays 112-96 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers and Blake Griffin led the charge with 28 points. Chris Paul posted 17 points and 10 assists for Los Angeles, which shot 56.3 percent. Jazz leading scorer Gordon Hayward (19.2 ppg) posted a game-best 30 points on 11-of-18 shooting. He has scored 30-plus points in two of his last four games, averaging 22.8 points in that stretch. Hayward has scored 30 or more points four times this season and averaged 20.2 ppg in November. Derrick Favors had 19 points and seven rebounds against the Clippers, and Trevor Booker netted 15 off the bench for Utah, which has lost three in a row as the host and is 3-5 at EnergySolutions Arena. We did a good job of fighting back, said Booker, whose 15 points were a season high to go with nine rebounds. We made a (few) errors, (some) miscommunication and they capitalized on it. Utah hasnt scored 100 or more points in the last seven games and will also entertain Toronto and Orlando in its state capital. The Nuggets split a home-and-home series with the Phoenix Suns and took the second game, 122-97, Friday night. They scored 33 points in each of the first three quarters (99-70) and shot 46.6 percent from the field. Arron Afflalo led the way with 22 points, Timofey Mozgov had 13 and four players finished with 11 points (Wilson Chandler, Kenneth Faried, Ty Lawson, Danilo Gallinari). Lawson added 10 assists and J.J. Hickson provided 10 points and grabbed 11 rebounds. Denver has been playing well of late with six wins in the last seven tries. It means a lot for the mental toughness of this team, Gallinari said. We are very focused. You dont want to lose back-to-back games against the (same) team. The Nuggets are fourth in the NBA with 105.5 points per game, but sit 26th in opponents scoring at 105.5. They are 6-0 this season when holding opponents under 100 points and 7-0 when outshooting them. After visiting the Jazz, Denver, which is 3-5 on the road, will return to the Rocky Mountains to host Portland on Tuesday. Nuggets center JaVale McGee has missed the last three games with a leg injury and is probable Monday. Denver and Utah split four meetings a season ago. The Nuggets are only 6-14 in the previous 20 games between the Northwest foes in Salt Lake City. Chief Bender Jersey . - Diego Fagundez scored his team-leading 13th goal of the season in the 76th minute to lift the Revolution to a 3-2 victory over the Columbus Crew on Saturday night that kept New Englands playoff hopes alive. Eloy Jimenez Jersey . 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With the lame-duck and weakest link MLS franchise on the block, hopes are high that an ambitious, deep-pocketed owner can come in, rebrand the club and then eventually move it to downtown Los Angeles. While the match-up has produced three four-goal games at BC Place, the games at Stub Hub Center have generally fallen under the file labelled "drudgery." Saturday night was a perfect example. Neither team wanted to lose and both were desperate to win...just not desperate enough. There were moments, particularly in the second half after the Goats introduced Mauro Rosales and Leandro Barrera on the wings, when the game threatened to open up, but it never really did. Clear-cut chances were non-existent. If the Whitecaps do miss the playoffs this season, they wont have to look any further than the three games against Chivas where they collected a paltry two points. For many supporters a six-game unbeaten streak with three-straight clean sheets and a league-lowest four losses from 23 games would be viewed as an achievement by a young side, but thats not how Whitecaps fans viewed their teams fourth 0-0 draw of the season, which was only slightly less disappointing than the scoreless effort at home with Montreal following the World Cup break. The was plenty of social media backlash over squad selection, which I think is a bit unfair. Gershon Koffie was ruled out as early as last Thursday, while playing Pedro Morales would have been a risk given his tight hamstring. Darren Mattocks deserved the chance to extend his goal-scoring exploits, but he, along with Omar Salgado, never showed the guile and conviction when they got in the front third.ddddddddddddnbsp; Sebastian Fernandez and substitutes Erik Hurtado and Kekuta Manneh seemed to struggle with the same issue. Once the ball was at their feet, they always looked of two minds. Hurtado was also caught offside once too often for anyones liking. One obvious bright spot was Russell Tieberts performance. He huffed and he puffed but he also sprayed the ball around and at least forced Chivas to work laterally. But against a team without its two starting centre-backs and a cloud of uncertainty hanging over it...and no support whatsoever, it was another draw that felt more like a loss for Vancouver. Players and coaches shrug off the notion that the Whitecaps are incapable of winning at the Stub Hub Center in Carson, but through 12 games in Southern California, the Whitecaps have amassed a meagre seven points out of 36, all of which have come came against Chivas. Vancouver has never taken even a point off of the Galaxy, their next opponents, in six tries there. What Vancouver wasted by not finding that one critical goal was a chance to close some ground on the teams above them, while distancing themselves from the those in the rear-view mirror. The out-of-town scoreboard was relatively kind over the weekend with Seattle, Colorado and the Galaxy all losing, while Portland managed a only single point at New England. If Chivas USA was in fact the Whitecaps nemesis team, then at least they can take comfort in not having to play them again under that moniker, but Vancouver did little to dispel the belief that they rise to bigger occasions and fall to the lesser ones. Well see if that theme comes to pass this Saturday against the Landon Donovan, Robbie Keane and company. ' ' '