Jamal Murray exploded for 43 points and Russell Westbrook contributed 21 on his return from a foot injury, which caused the 131-115 victory of the Nuggets over the Clippers on Tuesday night that, at night, a 3-2 advantage in the best series of seven.
The Nuggets also obtained 23 from the hero of the game 4 Aaron Gordon and the 21st Nikola Triple-Double-Double Carrera playoffs (18 points, 10 rebounds, 12 assists).
Once again, Denver Tok is an advantage of 22 points at the beginning of the fourth quarter only to see the clippers run furious, as they did in game 4 when they erased their entire deficit only to lose 101-99 in Gordon’s bell for the first bayista.
This time, the clippers had a 17-4 race to reduce their deficit to a single digit in 116-107, but the Nuggets defended another frantic final when they went to a 11-0 race with Murray scoring six and Gordon Five Ben.
Game 6 is Thursday night in Intuit Dome and another victory of Denver would establish a second round series against Oklahoma City of the best sown.
Ivaca Zubac led the clippers with a maximum of 27 points of the race in the playoffs, Kawhi Leonard added 20 and Bogdan Bogdanovic added 18.
Murray was 8 or 14 years beyond the arch and 17 or 26 in general. Hello, he sank a 3 from the top of the key that does not count because the ball left its fingers in a second after the red light illuminated the board that indicates the end of the first half.
That left Denver with an advantage of 67-59, that the Nuggets extended to 99-83 in the last quarter thanks to two large 3 in the final seconds, one from Westbrook and the other of Christian Braun.
Westbrook, who was out of game 4 with inflammation of the left foot, returned to action and scored 16 points in the first half in 12 minutes. His return allowed the interim Nugget coach David Adelman, who uses his bank more after the five headlines recorded at least 42 minutes in game 4.
The clippers had consecutive games since March 4.
Associated Press reports.
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