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[Post Game Thread] The Denver Nuggets overcome another double-digit deficit to take a 3-0 series lead over the Los Angeles Lakers, 112-105. Aaron Gordon with a playoff career high 29 points & 15 rebounds, Jokic with a nonchalant in 24/15/9.



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|[](/DEN) **112 – 105** [](/LAL)|
|**Box Scores: [NBA](http://www.nba.com/game/DEN-vs-LAL-0042300153/box-score) – [Yahoo](https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/scoreboard/)**|

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|**GAME SUMMARY**|
|**Location:** Crypto.com Arena (18997), **Clock:** END Q4|
|**Officials:** Marc Davis, Mark Lindsay, and Josh Tiven|

|**Team**|**Q1**|**Q2**|**Q3**|**Q4**|**Total**|
|:—|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|Denver Nuggets|23|26|34|29|112|
|Los Angeles Lakers|33|20|22|30|105|

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|**TEAM STATS**|

|**Team**|**PTS**|**FG**|**FG%**|**3P**|**3P%**|**FT**|**FT%**|**OREB**|**TREB**|**AST**|**PF**|**STL**|**TO**|**BLK**|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|Denver Nuggets|112|44-90|48.9%|5-28|17.9%|19-22|86.4%|14|55|27|14|4|13|3|
|Los Angeles Lakers|105|44-90|48.9%|5-27|18.5%|12-17|70.6%|8|45|23|16|8|7|2|

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|**PLAYER STATS**|

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**[](/DEN) Denver Nuggets**|**MIN**|**PTS**|**FGM-A**|**3PM-A**|**FTM-A**|**ORB**|**DRB**|**REB**|**AST**|**STL**|**BLK**|**TO**|**PF**|**±**|
|Michael Porter Jr.^SF|35:02|20|8-16|2-6|2-2|1|9|10|3|0|0|2|3|2|
|Aaron Gordon^PF|41:14|29|12-18|0-1|5-6|5|10|15|3|1|0|2|0|3|
|Nikola Jokic^C|38:59|24|9-13|0-1|6-7|5|10|15|9|1|0|3|4|4|
|Kentavious Caldwell-Pope^SG|35:08|5|2-7|1-5|0-0|1|1|2|1|2|0|2|3|2|
|Jamal Murray^PG|40:35|22|8-21|1-6|5-6|1|4|5|9|0|1|4|0|7|
|Reggie Jackson|07:24|5|2-3|1-2|0-0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|
|Christian Braun|17:17|5|2-5|0-2|1-1|1|1|2|1|0|0|0|3|6|
|Peyton Watson|16:12|2|1-3|0-1|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|2|0|1|9|
|Justin Holiday|08:06|0|0-4|0-4|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|0|2|
|DeAndre Jordan|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Zeke Nnaji|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Jalen Pickett|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Julian Strawther|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Hunter Tyson|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Vlatko Cancar|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
**[](/LAL) Los Angeles Lakers**|**MIN**|**PTS**|**FGM-A**|**3PM-A**|**FTM-A**|**ORB**|**DRB**|**REB**|**AST**|**STL**|**BLK**|**TO**|**PF**|**±**|
|Rui Hachimura^SF|27:53|5|2-4|1-2|0-2|0|2|2|1|0|0|1|2|-12|
|LeBron James^PF|42:08|26|12-20|1-6|1-2|0|6|6|9|2|1|3|3|-8|
|Anthony Davis^C|42:37|33|14-23|0-0|5-7|5|10|15|3|1|0|2|5|-4|
|Austin Reaves^SG|40:49|22|8-17|2-5|4-4|2|3|5|3|4|0|0|3|-4|
|D’Angelo Russell^PG|24:19|0|0-7|0-6|0-0|0|3|3|2|1|1|1|0|-6|
|Gabe Vincent|20:13|4|2-4|0-1|0-0|0|4|4|0|0|0|0|2|0|
|Spencer Dinwiddie|21:49|8|3-8|0-3|2-2|0|2|2|3|0|0|0|0|3|
|Taurean Prince|20:10|7|3-7|1-4|0-0|1|0|1|2|0|0|0|1|-4|
|Max Christie|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Jaxson Hayes|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Maxwell Lewis|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Jarred Vanderbilt|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Jalen Hood-Schifino|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Cam Reddish|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
|Christian Wood|00:00|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|

by ItsN0tTheB0at

49 Comments

  1. iCarpet

    My girlfriend asked me what I wanted from her tonight and I said “Nuggets vs Lakers”

    She smiled, cause she knew I wanted to be dominated

  2. ComfortableOven97

    DLo is Minnesotas revenge for LA stealing the Lakers.

  3. KarchunToo

    Watching the Nuggets face the Lakers the last 11 games is like watching slightly different plots, something spicy every now and then, but the ending stays the same

  4. Both_Funny4896

    Who’s ready for Lebron’s fake retirement announcement this Saturday? 🧹🧹🧹🧹

  6. MakeAShadow

    Just saw a bunch of Lakers fans fall to their knees at an In-N-Out.

  7. Sufficient_Motor_458

    The L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-Lakers are in basketball purgatory

    What’s the consecutive record for one team losing to another team? This has got to be up there

  8. abris33

    The play that perfectly described tonight was during the non-Jokic minutes in the 4th. AD gets the ball on the block and 4 Nuggets swarm to him, leaving all of the other Lakers wide open. Nobody else was a threat. AD is playing his best basketball since the bubble and his best teammate is a geriatric that gets tired easily and spends more energy arguing with the refs than defending

    It’s also fun to watch both sidelines. Malone is yelling at the team if they fuck up one defensive possession. He’s telling guys how to move defensively on most possessions. Ham is just doing nothing. When the Lakers fuck up on defense, LeBron and AD find someone else to blame. AD looked away and let Jokic blow right by him, then AD yelled at Prince after the play.

  9. 2holesinbutt666

    The Lakers now up a commanding 3-0 lead in the 1st half of the Series.

  10. AnConnor

    Someone really said “there’s no way these nuggets could sweep the lakers again” after the first quarter

  12. Mahatma_Gone_D

    Never seen team come out hot and ready for revenge every game just to be out of breath and as useful as garbage by 4Q.

    3-0 moral lead tho. GG LLLakers!

  14. AceMcStace

    Lakers have a lot of work ahead of them if they want to make this a more competitive sweep than last year

  15. Palifaith

    We are about to get swept by Denver in back to back post-seasons and I solely blame Wemby for robbing them of the 1 seed.

  16. jeric13xd

    Felt like we’ve all seen this movie 10 times before 🤣

    Nuggets just own the Lakers 🤷🏽‍♂️. Better team and better coached. They will out-execute your team to the ground.

  17. Angelic_Phoenix

    everybody say it with me now

    1
    🧹
    2
    🧹
    3
    🧹

  18. ProfessorBeast55

    “I’ve been dominating the season all year, so for me to have a game off when everyone is watching, of course it’s going to be magnified. You see what I did the second game, and I’m looking forward to doing it the third game.”

  19. ajmcgill

    I want anyone visiting this thread in the future that didn’t watch the game to know – it *absolutely* wasn’t this close

  20. suzukigun4life

    33 points in the first quarter.

    60 points over the next 2.75 quarters, until going on a run in garbage time to make the margin look respectable.

    Ladies and gents, your 2023-24 Los Angeles Lakers, in a borderline do-or-die game at home.

  21. abscando

    Let’s be honest this game was over when the Lakers beat the Pelicans

  22. reddev87

    This Denver team is just incredible man, what can you even do when Gordon is putting up 29?

  24. iChoke

    Did AD forget his afternoon nap? Jokic reading this mfer like a book w/ these cuts LMFAO.

  25. thedisasterofpassion

    BREAKING NEWS: President Biden unveils new plan to balance the federal budget, “Just bet it all on Denver when the Lakers are up 10 in the first half.”

  26. nguyenjitsu

    1 assist away for a good game, is Jokic WASHED?

  27. Goalnado

    You can chant “Fire Darvin” as much as you want, but there isn’t a coach in the world who is changing these results.

    Nuggets still look like they could go up another gear if they wanted, just on a totally different level.

  28. OverusedRedditJoke

    Don’t think I’ve ever seen a team literally incapable of beating a specific team. 11 straight losses. It just doesn’t matter who plays well, how many they are up by, it is just inevitable. The Lakers cannot beat this team

  31. bigtice

    Lakers picked the worst day to forget how to shoot threes.

    And Porter Jr. made sure that nail went into their coffin.

  32. yooston

    >But it was just a lot of like, the talking, and ‘the Lakers’ daddy,’ there was just so much of that going on it was like ‘all right, we get it, y’all won.’ But me and Bron had some conversations like ‘we can’t wait.’

  33. alex_song

    “WE WANT ALL THE SMOKE, AND WE AINT DUCKIN NO FADES!” -Pockets Ham

  34. OptimusGrime707

    Nuggets did the equivalent of letting my nephew finish a lap in Mario Kart before I pick up the controller and destroy him

    Also, I wish the Kings had Aaron Gordon

  35. Mig1997

    Man, Lebron getting the Lebronto treatment. I prayed for this and it happened.

  36. Captaincoolbeans

    AG was a beast today, but MPJ has been locked tf in the last three games and has been our second best player throughout the series. Big shoutout to him especially with all the outside distractions going on, wouldn’t be 3-0 without him.

  37. ImTrang

    that 4th quarter was some of the saddest basketball I’ve ever seen

  39. ShaolinShadowBoxing

    Reaves garbage time Jordan performance was legendary

  40. CockroachForeign6419

    So this is how Raptors fans felt during the LeBronto era… damn

  41. ColtCallahan

    >A win is a win, but if I’m Denver, I treat this like a loss. Lakers really figured something out putting Hachimura on Jokic. That’s one of those somewhat small adjustments that can win a series.

    They are 0-10 since this tweet.

  42. Parkur8

    Lakers and Nuggets shot NEARLY identical including hitting the same number of 2s and 3s

  43. BruceBrownMVP

    This is just bullying at this point lmao.

    Gordon is a fucking monster, MPJ came up huge at the right time.

    And right as you have a flicker of doubt about Denver winning it all when Reggie goes down hurt Watson and Braun click in like nothing happened.

  44. UnexpectedSoggyBread

    Malone is like a 6th player on the court especially when Nugs are playing defense in front of their own bench.

    He’s screaming at his players, knees bent, hands out in a defensive stance, mirroring his players. Just orchestrating the team and being almost like a glue player.

    Contrast that with how absent-minded and disengaged Ham acts on the sideline.

  45. sportsthatguy

    Must feel amazing for Denver fans after all these years of coming up short or being seen as second tier. This is their window and they are a special group.

  46. TheNaskgul

    I’m so fucking confused by this series. We turn the ball over so much, shoot like shit, take idiotic fouls and LA just keeps shitting the bed instead of taking advantage. Jokic had like 7 near-assists bricked by the shooter in the last 5 min and the gap closed by like 5 points. I’m not necessarily complaining but it goes against everything I know about basketball

  47. Better_Albatross_946

    DLO was on a HEATER tonight. 24 minutes ⏰⏰⏰0-7 from the field 🔥🔥🔥🔥0-6 from DOWNTOWN🔥🔥🔥🔥0 POINTS0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣

  48. Shaqfor3

    D-Lo with 0 pts

    Even Pepe Le Pew scored 2 points in Space Jam.

  49. Jameszhang73

    Lakers: “Don’t let us get 1…”

    Nuggets: “Okay, we won’t”

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