The Denver Nuggets have set a seven-game preseason schedule, including an Oct. 11 game outdoors against the Phoenix Suns at the 16,000-seat Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, Calif.

The Nuggets will play two games at the Pepsi Center: Oct. 10 against Minnesota, and Oct. 15 against Utah.

Nuggets forward Carmelo Anthony will return to Syracuse, N.Y., with his NBA team, facing Phoenix on Oct. 17.

Denver will also make trips to Bismarck, N.D. (Oct. 19, Minnesota) and Edmonton, Alberta (Oct. 21, Toronto).

* Nuggets assistant Jamahl Mosley has been named to participate in the NBA's Basketball Without Borders camp next month in South Africa.

* Free-agent forward Louis Amundson, a Monarch High School graduate, has signed a contract with the NBA's Suns.