Nikola Jokic received a lot of help from his teammates and Denver’s nuggets were not obtained when they built a great advantage and ran, adapts to the Los Angeles clippers in a laughter of the game 7 120-101 on Saturday night.
Seed nuggets No. 4, which led up to 35 points, advanced to face the Oklahoma City Thunder number 1, which swept Memphis in the first round and has a free week. The teams divided their 2-2 season series, with both teams winning one on the road.
The clippers season stopped after they entered the playoffs as the most popular team in the League, after winning 18 or 21.
Jokic had 16 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists. Aaron Gordon led Denver with 22 points, Christian Braun had 21, Jamal Murray and Russell Westbrook contributed 16 each and Michael Porter Jr. scored 15.
Kawhi Leonard led Los Angeles with 22 points, but James Harden only scored 7 points in 2 of 8 shots and Ivica Zubac had his quieter game of the series with 10 points.
Colterars on the Nuggets throughout the season was their fiasco of game 7 in round 2 last year, a second advantage of 20 points in the second half to the Minnesota Timberwolves just when it seemed to be prepared to defend the first NBA championship of the franchise.
And after eliminating an advantage of 22 points in the fourth quarter in game 4 of this series only to be saved by the first voyage in the history of the NBA playoffs, courtesy of Gordon, the Pepitas and the sand of the ball energized and received more Grepesned and Grew Grept Masigized Clipers.
The Nuggets opened this with a 17-0 race in the third quarter after Leonard began the second half with a triple to reduce the A 58-50 deficit.
The angels led 26-21 after a room, but the clippers were overcome by 72-40, turning the second and third quarter into the 93-66 follow-up in the last quarter.
After collecting his third, fourth and fifth of the offenses approximately a period of 48 seconds at the end of the third, Jokic went to the bank and saw his continuous team to roll.
The Nuggets celebrated at the beginning of the last quarter when Westbrook voluntarily touched a technician to hang on the edge and swing from one side to another after their robbery and overturned put Denver 107-76.
And Denver’s interim coach David Adelman, emptied his bank with an advantage of 111-81 with 5:23 remaining. But the clippers used in a 7-0 race and Adelman sent their headlines back to the 4-minute brand.
The clippers ended up cutting a 35 -point deficit in adolescence, but Denver’s advantage, for a change, was too large to overcome. His 19 -point victory was his greatest in a game 7 in the history of the playoffs of the franchise.
Courtesy of the Steve Ballmer team owner, more than 100 clippers fans were transferred to Denver and gathered behind one of the baskets to provide extra noise. It is an extension of “The Wall”, a section for the Superfans group that puts the intuit dome, also behind a basket, for the clippers games in Los Angeles.
The Nuggets lost four of their five previous closing games since they won the only NBA championship in the franchise two years ago. The clippers were also the victims the last time Denver won a game 7. That came in the semifinals of the conference in the Bubble of Florida when the Nuggets exceeded a 3-1 series deficit.
Associated Press reports.
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