(SportsNetwork. Shaquem Griffin Jersey .com) - The Denver Nuggets try to push their winning streak to a season-high six straight games when they close out a home-and-home set against the Dallas Mavericks Friday at American Airlines Center. The Nuggets made it five in a row with Wednesdays 114-107 defeat of the Mavericks at the Pepsi Center, as Ty Lawson led the way with 29 points on 10- of-18 shooting and handed out 12 assists. Kenneth Faried posted 22 points and 14 rebounds in the win. Denver shot 50 percent from the field and took advantage of a Dallas team playing without Dirk Nowitzki, Rajon Rondo and Tyson Chandler. Our defense wasnt very good tonight, starting from the beginning of the game, Nuggets coach Brian Shaw said. Thats one thing I was worried about, with three of their starters out, our guys would relax a little bit. Wilson Chandler had a double-double of 15 points and 10 boards, while J.J. Hickson and Arron Afflalo scored 13 and 12 points, respectively. The Nuggets are allowing 103.7 ppg and have allowed 100 or more points in nine of the past 11 games. Denver is only 6-12 on the road and has lost two in a row as the guest. It will host the Minnesota Timberwolves Saturday. Dallas is second in the NBA in scoring at 108.8 ppg and fourth with a 47.2 field goal percentage. The Mavericks went 1-2 on their road trip and should have Nowitzki, Chandler and Rondo back in the lineup Friday. J.J. Barea scored 17 points off the bench to lead Dallas and Richard Jefferson netted 16 points. Chandler Parsons and Devin Harris posted 13 points apiece in the loss, Dallas third in the last four tries following a six-game win streak. All things considered we did a lot of good things tonight. But we had too many lapses and mistakes, Mavs coach Rick Carlisle said. The Mavs trailed by as many as 19 points and were outrebounded, 51-39. They had a 62-29 advantage in bench points. 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Yonder Alonso and Yasmani Grandal homered, and Chase Headley drove in three runs, as the Padres beat the Chicago Cubs 11-1 on Friday night.PRETORIA, South Africa - The chief prosecutor in the Oscar Pistorius trial urged the judge on Friday to send the Olympic athlete to prison for at least 10 years, calling it the minimum acceptable term and noting the horrific nature of the shooting death of Reeva Steenkamp.Judge Thokozile Masipa is expected to announce Pistorius sentence on Tuesday. She adjourned court Friday after chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel and chief defence lawyer Barry Roux presented their final arguments for sentencing, summing up the testimony in the weeklong hearing.Masipa found Pistorius guilty last month of culpable homicide for negligently killing Steenkamp, but acquitted him of murder. Culpable homicide is comparable to manslaughter and Masipa has a wide range of options on Pistorius sentence. She could issue a suspended jail sentence and a fine, order the 27-year-old Paralympic champion to go under house arrest, or send him to prison for up to 15 years.Nel said to Judge Masipa: The minimum term that society will be happy with is 10 years in prison.It was the first time prosecutors have said what sentence they are seeking for the double-amputee runner for shooting his girlfriend.The deceased died in a small cubicle behind a closed door, Nel said. Three bullets ripped through her body.Later, Nel said this is a serious matter. The negligence borders on intent.Pistorius chief defence lawyer Roux said the world-famous athlete did not act with any deviousness when he killed Steenkamp, and acted while feeling extremely vulnerable and anxious. Pistorius testified he mistook Steenkamp for a dangerous intruder in his home and claimed the shooting was a tragic accident.The accusedss actions were to some extent dominated by vulnerability and anxiety, Roux said to the red-robed judge who will decide Pistorius fate. L.J. Collier Jersey. When you come to sentence ... you have to look at the actions with his frame of mind.Roux said there was also no conscious unlawfulness from Pistorius. He described Pistorius suffering, both emotional and financial, since the Feb. 14, 2013 shooting.Hes lost everything, Roux said of Pistorius, once an inspirational figure who became the first amputee to run at the Olympics in 2012. He was an icon in the eyes of South Africans.Pistorius at one point cried as he sat, his head bowed, on a wooden bench behind his lawyer.Hes not only broke, but hes broken. There is nothing left of this man, Roux said. He said that Pistorius hasnt even the money to pay for legal expenses. He has nothing left.Pistorius lawyers have argued for a three-year sentence of occasional house arrest and community service and no jail time, saying Pistorius has suffered emotionally and financially already, and would be under duress in prison because of his disability as a double amputee.Nel called a house arrest sentence shockingly disproportionate to what Pistorius did in the pre-dawn hours of Valentines Day last year when he shot four times with his 9 mm pistol through a toilet cubicle door in his home, hitting Steenkamp in the head, arm and hip.Nel said Pistorius should never be allowed to own a firearm again after he was also convicted on another charge of unlawfully firing a gun in a public place in a restaurant incident in early 2013, weeks before Steenkamps killing.___Imray reported from Stellenbosch, South Africa. ' ' '