Denver Nuggets Locker Room Celebration After Nikola Jokic Makes Triple-Double vs. Boston Celtics!

Denver Nuggets Locker Room Celebration After Nikola Jokic Makes Triple-Double vs. Boston Celtics!

Fell congratulations on the win that’s how you bounce back from a tough loss on Tuesday night by beating a very good team that team is an elite three-point shooting team two games now against them they were 11 of 38 tonight for 28% which is a phenomenal number halftime we

Talked about rebounding only two offensive rebounds the entirety of the second half uh and then we had 19 fast break since the allstar break we’re averaging 20 in transition man that’s great that’s how we need to play and we had 66 in the paint a lot of great

Numbers uh the first one goes to First Team all all right and the second one all right this guy this guy in the first half at zero rebounds at halftime he drank some juice he got something in system came out of four rebounds that two blocks and play great [Applause] defense

Joker another triple double har Gordon I don’t know TJ you been around a long time you seen many dunks like that in the game on a putback down down here a what wait room 19 for Jamal eight assist six boards and I think the bench unit man everybody Reggie CB Payton Zeke

Justin you guys are great tonight man that’s what we need everybody’s got to max out their minutes and opportunities stay hungry all right don’t be satisfied stay hungry family on three 1 2 3

Nikola Jokic’s triple-double helps Nuggets to season sweep of Celtics with 115-109 win

DENVER — — Sometimes, Nikola Jokic’s triple-double is as meaningful as it is magical.
That was certainly the case Thursday night when Jokic recorded his 20th triple-double of the season and the Denver Nuggets withstood a furious fourth-quarter surge by Boston to beat the Celtics 115-109.

That gave the reigning NBA champs a sweep of their season series with the Eastern Conference leaders.
Jokic had 32 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists, several of them on alley-oops to Aaron Gordon, who had 16 points on seven dunks and a running hook.

Jamal Murray added 19 points and eight assists as the Nuggets improved to 7-1 since the All-Star break.
It was Jokic’s 30th career 30-point triple-double.

“He’s just an incredible basketball player,” Celtics center Kristaps Porzingis said. “Some things I learned from him today, actually. He’s just so smart, so crafty, so many things you don’t see that he does on the floor that helps that team win. It’s incredible. Whenever you overhelp just a little bit, he’ll find Gordon, he’ll find all these guys. It speaks to how valuable he is for them.”

Asked what exactly he had learned, Porzingis said, “a couple of tricks he does, I’ll leave it at that.”
Maybe some of that sorcery Porzingis was referencing had to do with the Jokic-Gordon alley-oop game that’s becoming as big a part of Denver’s crunch-time arsenal as the Jokic-Murray pick-and-roll.

Gordon’s best dunk came off a missed layup by Jokic with two minutes remaining. Gordon corralled the rebound with his right hand and windmilled it through the basket for a 109-103 lead.
“It was a bad miss,” Jokic said, “but a great dunk.”

The two teamed up for a game-sealing alley-oop with 20 seconds left after Jayson Tatum’s 3-pointer for the lead with 40 seconds remaining rimmed out.

Jaylen Brown scored a season-high 41 points and had 14 rebounds for the Celtics, who hadn’t lost consecutive games since early November. But Brown was just 7 of 14 from the foul line.

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