That’s one for Doug.

Doug Moe, who feared and loathed flying, would have loved the Nuggets’ Friday night flight of fantasy.

After a flight from Los Angeles to Portland for the second of back-to-back games, the Nuggets broke the franchise record for most points in a road game with a Moe-style 157-103 victory over the Trailblazers. They eclipsed the mark established by the team on Tax Day in George Orwell’s 1984 by scoring 154 in San Antonio, but losing to the Spurs by three.

Moe was Denver’s head coach and ahead of basketball’s time then.

Somewhere way above a mile high sky Doug smiled Saturday and said: “The Big Stiffs won.”

Colorado’s most colorful, creative and competitive coach and character – the Edison of the “passing game offense’’ – passed on Tuesday after a lengthy illness.

Just imagine these current Nuggets with Doug Moe — who coached the team for 10 seasons and was an assistant twice in Denver for seven other seasons. The Moe Nuggets of 1981-82 averaged 126.5 points, an NBA record that still stands now.

NBA teams are playing offense in the 2020s much as Moe’s teams were exploding for the 1980s. The Nuggets and the Pistons combined for the most points in a game (370), with Detroit finally prevailing in overtime 186-184 in Denver, Dec. 13, 1983.

I sat at the (press) table next to Moe that night and asked him at one juncture: “Ever seen anything like this before?” He replied: “On the playground in Brooklyn when we played 10 hours every day.’’

I first saw Moe play in the ABA in 1970 when his knees were damaged beyond repair.

We met again in 1974 when Moe arrived in Colorado as Larry Brown’s best friend and assistant coach. On Nov. 27 the three of us – Larry, Woody and Moe, the Three Stiffs, as Doug called us – were sitting at a hotel bar in San Antonio drinking our Thanksgiving Eve dinner when Larry said: “The only good thing about San Antonio is the guacamole.’’ Doug said: “You’re going to get us in trouble. Paige will put that in the newspaper.’’

I did, and they did. The Spurs would get their revenge with a “10-Cent Beer Night’’ when the Nuggets returned, and fans pelted Brown and Moe with avocados and guacamole dip. Oddly enough, Moe, and later Brown, would become Spurs head coaches.

Moe was the reluctant head coach, though. When offered the San Antonio job he declined until persuaded by his wife “Big Jane’’ and Brown.

As rival Pat Riley once declared, Moe became “one of the greatest coaches in the league’’. Doug beat the geniuses and made the playoffs in nine Nuggets seasons and reached the Western Conference Finals with the clever motion-passing offense. As a close companion for years, I would ask Doug at breakfast (as he studied menus, not scouting reports) about his offensive schemes. “We actually play good defense, but nobody except me knows it.” After a 40-point loss in Los Angeles I was reticent about interviewing Doug, who was described as speaking two languages – English and Obscenity. He said to me: “This is (bleeping) great. When we play tomorrow night in (bleeping) Philadelphia, we’ll win by 25 (bleeping) points.’’ The Nuggets did.

After holding a press conference to announce his own firing in Denver, Doug completed his head coaching career with a short stint of 75 games with the 76ers. They should have given him one more.

As we played golf later, I told Doug he should return to coaching until earning at least 750 victories. “When I’m dead, the (bleep) I care?’’

On a trip to New York for a Nuggets game with the Knicks, I asked Doug about his childhood home in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. “We lived on the fourth floor of an apartment building just across the street from left field at Ebbets Field. We’d sneak in for a ton of games, but I’d rather play basketball.’’

Doug spent his retirement years in a home on a golf club course. “I gave up golf. All I did was groove a bad swing,’’ he told me. I last called to talk about the Nuggets and his health. “Call me back. I’m watching Family Feud.’’

A documentary about the ABA history, “Soul Power,’’ co-produced and promoted by Moe’s pal and former Nuggets coach George Karl, was recently released on the Prime Network. It should be an honor to and a testament of the life of Doug Moe, who had a red, white and blue ball playing and coaching.

And the Nuggets appropriately scored 157.