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Jokic and Murray devoured the blazers
With Nikola Jokic and Jamal Marry averaging 54 points and 23 assists, the Nuggets did what they had to do against the Blazers and, relying on a spacey third quarter, won 120-107.
The Nuggets’ encounter with the Blazers was a derby until … it stopped being. Denver made that possible thanks to their spacey third quarter, in which they ran away on goal thanks to a partial score of 35-16 and eventually secured a 120-107 win.
Nikola Jokic with 29 points and 11 assists and Jamal Murray with 25 points and 12 assists led the winners, who had Michael Porter (18 points) for the first time in 13 games and show how dangerous they can be when they’re on the parquet their three most important players.
With the Blazers, Damien Lillard had 34 points and Jerami Grant had 20 points, but none of that was enough.
THE DODECALPTA: 32-27, 58-64, 93-80, 120-107
NUGGETS: Gordon 13 (6 rebounds), Porter 18 (2 3-pointers, 5 rebounds), Jokic 29 (8 rebounds, 11 assists), Murray 25 (3 3-pointers, 8 rebounds, 12 assists), Caldwell-Pope 14 ( 3), Green 2, Nagy 3, Brown 9 (1), Hyland 7 (1)
BLAZER: Grant 20 (3 3s, 7 rebounds), Nurkic 11 (4/10 shooting, 1 3s, 7 rebounds), Lillard 34 (4/11 3s, 7 rebounds, 8 assists), Hart 14 (11 rebounds, 6 assists) , Simons 14 (6/22 shooting, 1/10 threes), Eubanks 2 (5 rebounds), Watford 4, Johnson 6, Sharpe 2
Source: sport 24
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