Two championship contenders will be looking to start a new streak Thursday at Ball Arena.

Denver’s six-game win streak was snapped by Phoenix, 117-107 in overtime, Tuesday at Ball Arena. The Boston Celtics saw what would’ve been a 12th consecutive win slip away in a 105-104 loss to the Cavaliers in Cleveland.

Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla shut down the notion it might be a good thing for his team to head to Denver without a lengthy win streak hanging over their head.

“I don’t think those two things are correlated,” Mazzulla said.

While the Nuggets erased a 22-point deficit and led by three in the final minutes before Kevin Durant forced overtime and took over from there, Boston led Cleveland 93-71 with 9 minutes to go. Then, Dean Wade got almost as hot for the Cavaliers as Grayson Allen did for Phoenix. Wade made all seven shots he took in the fourth quarter, including five 3-pointers and a put-back dunk that put Cleveland up a point with 19 seconds left.

When a foul call that would’ve sent Jayson Tatum to the line was overturned to a no call with .7 seconds left, Boston’s streak ended.

“Tip your cap to D-Wade. He got hot,” Celtics wing Jaylen Brown said. “We wasn’t expecting a counter for that, but we still should’ve won this game.”

Both Boston, still with the league’s best record at 48-13, and Denver, which fell a game back of Minnesota for the best record in the Western Conference, felt like they didn’t do a good enough job of controlling the controlables on Tuesday.

For the Celtics, it was Cleveland’s 34-11 closing run. The Nuggets’ issues largely stemmed from a 37-9 Suns run that spanned the final 8 minutes of the second quarter and the first 90 seconds of the third.

“I don’t think we were disciplined enough. They came out a lot more aggressive in their movements,” Nuggets guard Jamal Murray said.

“It’s just frustrating, man. Frustrating. You put a lot of energy and effort to make up for that quarter, and you come out with a loss. It’s tough to go back home at night.”

The Nuggets lamented their missed shots. Michael Malone cited the team’s 20-for-39 mark on shots in the paint and guessed his team missed 15 “wide-open” looks from 3-point range.

“Obviously, if you can knock down a couple of those 3-point looks, that’s going to be a big, big difference-maker,” Malone said. “We had a lot of really good ones by good shooters.”

Murray shouldered a lot of the blame in his postgame press conference for Denver’s first loss since the All-Star break, saying he could’ve played a smarter game despite finishing with 28 points, nine assists and seven rebounds. He believes the team will feel better Wednesday, but the Nuggets will have to be ready to go Thursday.

Meanwhile, the Celtics are headed to Denver with extra motivation after the Nuggets became the first team to win at TD Garden this season by outscoring Boston 7-2 in the final 4:30 of a 102-100 win on Jan. 19.

“You can’t feel sorry for yourself,” Malone said. “We’ve got to watch the film, clean some things up, and we know we have a very good team coming in here on Thursday night. We’ll have to be ready to go.”

Nuggets coach Michael Malone confers with guard Jamal Murray during Tuesday’s game against the Suns in Denver.

The Associated Press