NBA MVP Nikola Jokic tallies 29 points and 11 assists while star guard Jamal Murray scores 25 with 12 dimes as the Denver Nuggets cruise past the Portland Trail Blazers.
Nikola Jokic had 29 points and 11 assists, Jamal Murray scored 25 points and handed out 12 assists and the host Denver Nuggets beat the Portland Trail Blazers 120-107 on Friday .
Michael Porter Jr. had 18 points in his return from a 13-game absence caused by a heel injury, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scored 14 and Aaron Gordon 13 for the Nuggets. Denver won for the sixth time in seven games. Damian Lillard had 34 points, Jerami Grant added 20, Anfernee Simons and Josh Hart scored 14 each and Jusuf Nurkic finished with 11 for Portland, which lost its third game in a row.The Blazers stormed back behind 10 points from Lillard to take a 56-52 lead with 2:37 left in the half. The Nuggets tied it but Portland ended the quarter on an 8-2 run to take a 64-58 lead into intermission.
The Blazers led 68-62 early in the third when Denver responded. Porter scored seven straight points, Caldwell-Pope hit a 3-pointer, Murray scored on a layup and a step-back 3-pointer and Porter hit from deep during a 19-1 run that put the Nuggets ahead 81-69.Hart scored on a cutting layup for the Blazers’ first field goal in more than five minutes but Murray hit another bucket and a 3-pointer to help Denver go into the fourth up 93-80.
Grant was fouled on a made 3-pointer from the corner and he hit the free throw to spark six straight points and make it 102-93. Lillard sank a long 3-pointer later to make it 105-98, but Jokic fed Gordon for a dunk and scored four points to make it 111-98, and the Nuggets closed it out.
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