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||**Q1**|**Q2**|**Q3**|**Q4**|**Final**||
|:—|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
**LAL**|**25**|**29**|**38**|**34**|**126**|[](/LAL)|
**DEN**|**37**|**35**|**34**|**26**|**132**|[](/DEN)|
**Team**|**FG**|**3PT**|**FT**|**OR**|**Reb**|**Ast**|**TO**|**Stl**|**Blk**|**PF**|**Pts**|
|:—|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|
[](/LAL)**LAL**|**46-84 (54.8)**|**11-24 (45.8)**|**23-26 (88.5)**|**5**|**30**|**30**|**7**|**6**|**4**|**21**|**126**|
[](/DEN)**DEN**|**50-91 (54.9)**|**15-32 (46.9)**|**17-22 (77.3)**|**15**|**47**|**29**|**11**|**5**|**7**|**21**|**132**|
**[](/DEN)DEN**|**Min**|**FG**|**3PT**|**FT**|**OR**|**Reb**|**Ast**|**TO**|**Stl**|**Blk**|**PF**|**Pts**|**+/-**|
|:—|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|
M. Porter Jr.^^SF|34:33|6-12 (50.0)|3-6 (50.0)|0-0 (0.0)|3|10|2|1|0|2|2|15|+20|
A. Gordon^^PF|35:59|4-9 (44.4)|0-3 (0.0)|4-8 (50.0)|3|3|3|2|0|0|1|12|+11|
N. Jokic^^C|42:26|12-17 (70.6)|3-3 (100.0)|7-8 (87.5)|6|21|14|5|0|2|4|34|+11|
K. Caldwell-Pope^^SG|35:59|9-17 (52.9)|3-8 (37.5)|0-0 (0.0)|1|2|3|1|2|1|5|21|+16|
J. Murray^^PG|37:03|12-20 (60.0)|4-8 (50.0)|3-3 (100.0)|1|5|5|1|3|1|5|31|+3|
B. Brown|24:11|6-11 (54.5)|1-1 (100.0)|3-3 (100.0)|0|4|2|0|0|0|2|16|-5|
C. Braun|12:13|0-2 (0.0)|0-2 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|1|0|0|0|1|1|0|-16|
J. Green|17:35|1-3 (33.3)|1-1 (100.0)|0-0 (0.0)|1|1|0|1|0|0|1|3|-10|
**Totals**||**50-91 (54.9)**|**15-32 (46.9)**|**17-22 (77.3)**|**15**|**47**|**29**|**11**|**5**|**7**|**21**|**132**||
**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**|**+/-**|
|:—|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|
A. Reaves^^SF|42:08|7-14 (50.0)|5-9 (55.6)|4-4 (100.0)|1|2|8|0|0|0|5|23|-3|
L. James^^PF|39:52|9-16 (56.3)|0-4 (0.0)|8-11 (72.7)|3|12|9|3|0|1|1|26|-6|
A. Davis^^C|41:50|14-23 (60.9)|1-1 (100.0)|11-11 (100.0)|1|10|3|0|3|2|3|40|-8|
D. Russell^^SG|26:08|4-11 (36.4)|0-3 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|0|3|1|0|0|1|8|-25|
D. Schroder^^PG|32:02|2-3 (66.7)|2-2 (100.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|3|5|2|0|0|3|6|-6|
L. Walker IV|19:37|2-6 (33.3)|2-4 (50.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|2|0|0|2|0|1|6|+3|
R. Hachimura|28:09|8-11 (72.7)|1-1 (100.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|0|1|0|0|1|4|17|+10|
J. Vanderbilt|10:12|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|1|1|1|1|0|3|0|+5|
**Totals**||**46-84 (54.8)**|**11-24 (45.8)**|**23-26 (88.5)**|**5**|**30**|**30**|**7**|**6**|**4**|**21**|**126**||
**DNP:** ***Malik Beasley***, ***Troy Brown Jr.***, ***Max Christie***, ***Wenyen Gabriel***, ***Shaquille Harrison***, ***Tristan Thompson***
**Inactive:** ***Mo Bamba***
||**PITP**|**2^^nd PTS**|**FB PTS**|**BIG LD**|**BEN PTS**|**TOT TOV**|**TOV PTS**||
|:—|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
**LAL**|48|13|13|2|23|7|14|[](/LAL)|
**DEN**|50|18|19|21|19|11|5|[](/DEN)|
**Lead Changes: 1** | **Times Tied: 1** | **Gametime: 2:35** | **Attendance: 19633**
*Officials: Pat Fraher, Zach Zarba, Eric Lewis, Ben Taylor*
by BigHoneyBot
31 Comments
W!!
7 MORE WINS IN 13 GAMES FOR THE RING!
Great win… but we got some sh*t to clean up.
Get ready for lots and lots of “lakers should feel great after game 1” takes
Ugly ass win, but I’ll take it
Worth not sleeping all night for this one, gona be a crazy ass series
Idemoooo
Great start, bad finish. Hopefully they get a complete great game Thursday.
Ham made adjustments- Malone didn’t- he won’t for next game either. Happy we won but I’m gonna lose my mind next game.
Silver lining to that rough second half: AD and LeBron having to empty the clip with 40 minutes each. And they have to do it again in Game 2 on short rest
Good W but Malone needs to make some adjustments. Green and Braun’s minutes were not great. Wondering if there are any others he could plug in for a better fit.
Did the Lakers not get 3 challenges?? I see 3 challenges in the play by play.
crazy how this game wasn’t close until the refs started calling everything, it didn’t really seem biased but they took control of the game for sure
Lebron going to to the locker room instead of shaking hands is the most Lebron James thing ever
Jokic, he gets us
I really don’t wanna watch Mal defending Lebron again. Thank god Bron settled for a dumb 3 near the end there
Refs were seriously not that bad. Chill tf out
7 MORE GAMES! LFG
Jokic has the most 30 point 20 rebound triple doubles? Wilt and Kareem only had one? Jesus Christ what a fucking player
Who’s the announcer who just read Jokic’s insane stat line like it was a line in a textbook? Lmao like 34 21 and 14 is just another day at work.
No more Jeff Green please!!
good thing my heart will only have to go thru this for 4 games
God damn we almost got hoe’d at the end there.
A win is a win. We have as many wins in these playoffs as any but one Nuggets team in history. Love this team.
LeBron sulks off the court
MoAch better figure out how to counter that Rui on Jokic defense or he’ll go the way of Doc Rivers.
DO YOY BELIEVE? DO YOU – BELIEVE? BECAUSE I FUCKING BELIEVE BABY.
Fuck The Lakers.
Glad we got that win but Malone had better make some adjustments off the bench. Green and Braun are not going to get it done against the Lakers…and everyone had better lock the fuck back in on defense because we sucked in the second half on D.
And someone wake Gordon up, please.
You never want to just give up and punt a game at halftime but the Lakers showed their hand on a ton of adjustments that they could have held until Game 2. The Nugs now know the game plan and should a counter prepared for Thursday.
I just don’t know about Malone sometimes man…win is win but why is MPJ not closing out this game when he has been lights out defensively?
A win is a win. They almost gave me a fucking heart attack dawg.
7 more wins! 😤
“Best defense” gave up 132 while Nuggets were coasting.