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||**Q1**|**Q2**|**Q3**|**Q4**|**Final**||
|:—|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
**DEN**|**32**|**26**|**26**|**35**|**119**|[](/DEN)|
**LAL**|**20**|**35**|**27**|**26**|**108**|[](/LAL)|
**Team**|**FG**|**3PT**|**FT**|**OR**|**Reb**|**Ast**|**TO**|**Stl**|**Blk**|**PF**|**Pts**|
|:—|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|
[](/DEN)**DEN**|**44-88 (50.0)**|**17-41 (41.5)**|**14-19 (73.7)**|**5**|**39**|**30**|**5**|**7**|**1**|**19**|**119**|
[](/LAL)**LAL**|**38-84 (45.2)**|**10-32 (31.3)**|**22-29 (75.9)**|**11**|**45**|**27**|**12**|**3**|**2**|**18**|**108**|
**[](/DEN)DEN**|**Min**|**FG**|**3PT**|**FT**|**OR**|**Reb**|**Ast**|**TO**|**Stl**|**Blk**|**PF**|**Pts**|**+/-**|
|:—|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|
M. Porter Jr.^^SF|38:06|4-11 (36.4)|4-10 (40.0)|2-2 (100.0)|1|10|6|0|1|0|2|14|+9|
A. Gordon^^PF|32:12|2-5 (40.0)|0-1 (0.0)|3-4 (75.0)|1|3|4|1|0|1|0|7|+6|
N. Jokic^^C|38:15|9-19 (47.4)|2-5 (40.0)|4-7 (57.1)|1|6|8|2|1|0|4|24|+15|
K. Caldwell-Pope^^SG|34:14|6-10 (60.0)|4-7 (57.1)|1-2 (50.0)|0|3|0|1|2|0|2|17|-1|
J. Murray^^PG|41:36|15-29 (51.7)|5-11 (45.5)|2-2 (100.0)|0|7|6|1|2|0|2|37|+18|
B. Brown|28:48|6-11 (54.5)|1-5 (20.0)|2-2 (100.0)|2|5|5|0|1|0|5|15|+6|
C. Braun|3:22|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|1|0|0|0|0|1|0|-3|
J. Green|23:27|2-3 (66.7)|1-2 (50.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|4|1|0|0|0|3|5|+5|
**Totals**||**44-88 (50.0)**|**17-41 (41.5)**|**14-19 (73.7)**|**5**|**39**|**30**|**5**|**7**|**1**|**19**|**119**||
**DNP:** ***Thomas Bryant***, ***Vlatko Cancar***, ***Reggie Jackson***, ***DeAndre Jordan***, ***Zeke Nnaji***, ***Ish Smith***, ***Peyton Watson***
**Inactive:**
**[](/LAL)LAL**|**Min**|**FG**|**3PT**|**FT**|**OR**|**Reb**|**Ast**|**TO**|**Stl**|**Blk**|**PF**|**Pts**|**+/-**|
|:—|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|
J. Vanderbilt^^SF|13:34|1-4 (25.0)|0-1 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|1|0|0|0|0|1|2|-10|
L. James^^PF|42:56|8-19 (42.1)|3-9 (33.3)|4-7 (57.1)|0|7|12|2|0|0|2|23|-4|
A. Davis^^C|41:51|11-18 (61.1)|0-0 (0.0)|6-8 (75.0)|5|18|1|1|0|2|3|28|-12|
A. Reaves^^SG|39:39|7-10 (70.0)|3-5 (60.0)|6-6 (100.0)|2|7|5|4|1|0|2|23|-15|
D. Russell^^PG|20:01|1-8 (12.5)|1-6 (16.7)|0-0 (0.0)|0|3|4|3|0|0|0|3|-12|
D. Schroder|24:39|2-5 (40.0)|0-2 (0.0)|1-2 (50.0)|0|0|1|1|1|0|6|5|-6|
R. Hachimura|33:43|5-12 (41.7)|1-3 (33.3)|2-2 (100.0)|1|6|1|1|1|0|2|13|-3|
L. Walker IV|18:47|2-5 (40.0)|2-4 (50.0)|3-4 (75.0)|1|1|2|0|0|0|2|9|-3|
S. Harrison|0:57|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|+2|
M. Beasley|0:57|0-1 (0.0)|0-1 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|+2|
T. Brown Jr.|0:57|1-2 (50.0)|0-1 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|1|1|0|0|0|0|0|2|+2|
T. Thompson|0:57|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|+2|
M. Christie|0:57|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|1|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|+2|
**Totals**||**38-84 (45.2)**|**10-32 (31.3)**|**22-29 (75.9)**|**11**|**45**|**27**|**12**|**3**|**2**|**18**|**108**||
**DNP:** ***Wenyen Gabriel***
**Inactive:** ***Mo Bamba***
||**PITP**|**2^^nd PTS**|**FB PTS**|**BIG LD**|**BEN PTS**|**TOT TOV**|**TOV PTS**||
|:—|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
**DEN**|38|9|19|14|20|6|13|[](/DEN)|
**LAL**|52|18|15|2|29|12|8|[](/LAL)|
**Lead Changes: 10** | **Times Tied: 5** | **Gametime: 2:20** | **Attendance: 18997**
*Officials: Scott Foster, Bill Kennedy, Mark Lindsay*
by BigHoneyBot
31 Comments
How was Ball those of you that went?
This team reminds me of 2015 warriors when they won the title
Coach jokic
YA’LL GOT THIS
GET MY BOY REGGIE JACKSON A RING!!!
-Clippers fan
The real moral victory are the friends we made along the way 🫶🏾
Lakers fan here. Love watching your team play. Unfortunately it’s against my team. But I’ll be rooting for them once they knock us out. Best of luck!
Guys, I am worried, Lakers discovered something again. They discovered that Jamal is a bad man
Yes! Please bring the broom to the next game. Get rid of the fakers.
I don’t know what to say. Not a good game of joker and still an amazing win. Next game will be different but I believe in the Nuggets in 4 or being it home and win it in 5 I don’t care but we got this. Now I’m hoping the east is taking it to game 7 while we can relax a little vit
Does anyone have that clip of Bruce Brown trash talking? My airplay died at that exact moment smh
Bring out Lebroom
Hell yeah! Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
If nuggets win it all who gets FMVP, Murray or Jokic
Michael Malone has ONCE AGAIN outcoached his counterpart
The adjustment of MPJ at the 4 is a great counter to the Rui/roaming AD strat, and he saved it for right when we needed a big quarter.
Ham didn’t have the time to adjust without disrupting the Lakers rhythm, and suddenly LA are on the brink.
Never seen a fan base talk so much shit after losing a game.
The maturity in Joker & Jamal’s game was astounding. Murray with his defensive/rebounding effort when the shot wasnt falling in the third, while Joker stayed engaged and pulled through his struggles, unlike what we’ve seen from him early in his career
Y’all the best. Congrats, and fuck the FT grifters.
Jokic turned up the heat in the 4th 🔥
This ESPN post-game coverage feels like a funeral.
As a lakers fan just came to say your team is truly elite, hope yall win the long deserved chip this year.
GUYS GUYS MO BAMBA IS COMING BACK FOR GAME 4 DO NOT CELEBRATE ANYTHING YET
You guys are the better team. You have everything going well. I am rooting for you all to win this year. No team has an answer for you. I thought Phoenix was your hardest challenge.
Sweep the fucking leg
Is 6 a career high in assists for MPJ?
The Lakers got hit with a reality check. This isn’t the hurt Grizzlies, or the awful road Warriors. This is a legit team. They are getting exposed to what they are when they go up against a great team. The Laker fans begged the refs to rig, they did and you still lost. Bums
Hey guys, you know what I think Lakers should do in game 4? Put Hatchimura on Jokic, and that will stop the nuggets….. HAHAHAHAHA oh the comments after the game one….
Pelican fan here, need y’all to end those bum ass Lakers Monday.
* I thought officiating wasn’t that bad in the first half, some home cooking you’d expect for a Lakers home game, but overall pretty ok. And then they called the quick stupid 4th on Jok that they refused to overturn, and 1 (one) team foul on Lakers in the 3rd quarter. Jamal shot 0 FTs during the competitive part of this game. Lakers had 18 more FTs during the competitive part of this game (16 in the last game). Fuck the NBA. We’re lucky to have seen some 3s drop late in the game both in this and the last game, because refs were doing their best.
* Mal and Jok kinda swapped roles since the last game – Jok was carrying solo super hard in G2 for the first 3 quarters, and disappeared in 4th when Jamal took over, Jamal was carrying solo super hard in G3 for the first 2 quarters, and disappeared, and Jok disappeared for the first 3 quarters, and took over in the 4th. Jamal was unconscious, bro, what a poised first half, he just took his time walking up to the spot he wanted, and drained them like Lakers weren’t even there. I thought Schroder played him really hard, and refs obviously didn’t give him a single whistle all game long, definitely something to pay attention to going into G4. Sidenote – hope lads don’t celebrate in LA just yet, the job’s not done.
* KCP had super timely 3s
* Mike was pretty much exclusively hitting **completely wide-open** 3s lol everything else was a bad brick. Good job by him to make himself useful with boards and assists. Jok yelled at him super early in the game, haven’t seen that in a hot minute.
* Jok looked tired from the jump. Ls made a point of shutting him down hard, looked like there was always one defender sticking super hard to him, and 2 others within 5 feet, with eyes locked onto him. They also made a point of attacking him on the other end, which went pretty well for them. Looked like himself in the Q4, and took us over the hump. Idk if he missed as many bunnies in his career as he did tonight. Hopefully we make this a very short series, so he can get some rest.
* I think CB may have lost his minutes in this series. He keeps playing 0 offense, and he keeps playing great defense (relative to matchups), but refs are pretty much automatically calling a foul on him regardless of what he does, so he’s kinda unplayable for us rn. I think the Heat (please, god) matchup is essentially the best imaginable for him, just hope he doesn’t lose a spot permanently because Ls are p much the worst imaginable matchup for him.
* Thank god for D’Angelo Russell. Every aspect of his game and LeBron 3s are pretty much singlehandedly losing Lakers every game. I know Lakers are a garbage team, but this mf gotta have some extensive blackmail files on the right people, I have 0 idea why they keep starting and playing him. I can’t say I’m entirely sure whom else could Jamon play instead of him, but it’s virtually impossible to have a worse option. I’ve always been a DLo hater, but this is ridiculously bad.
* Both AD and Bron keep dying by the start of Q4. I may be talking out of my ass, but it looked to me like Denver looked supremely confident in Q4, you could see shots falling, no tension, everyone looked hungry, and dominated both ends of the court. Idk if 3 games worth of sample size is enough to get to a massive conclusion, but I’m not sure I can see that changing in the next game, and especially if it goes back to Denver.
Please, god, just let them stay healthy. Been saying since the Summer, just fucking stay healthy, and we’re going all the way.
Wolves taking a game from us and not the lakers would absolutely be the funniest shit in nuggets history
Still hilarious to me how braindead the people are who are mourning about a „boring final“ lmao. A team which lost 3 games in a row will be „more entertaining“? Its so stupid.
Bro. The fucking timber dog. They are gonna be the team that gave us the most fight out of every team in the west. LMFAO