Nuggets make NBA history behind Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray, stun Clippers in Game 7

The Den­ver Nuggets authored a sto­ry so auda­cious Tues­day night it could’ve only hap­pened inside a Dis­ney bubble.

Improb­a­bly the Nuggets made NBA his­to­ry, storm­ing back from their sec­ond 3–1 deficit of their riv­et­ing post­sea­son run. The Nuggets shocked the Clip­pers, and the NBA world, win­ning Game 7 of the West­ern Con­fer­ence semi­fi­nals in con­vinc­ing fash­ion, 104–89. The only ones they didn’t shock were them­selves, as the Clip­pers crum­bled fac­ing the heat of the Nuggets’ pressure.

In win­ning their sixth con­sec­u­tive elim­i­na­tion game, which tied an NBA record, the Nuggets booked a date with the Los Ange­les Lak­ers in the West­ern Con­fer­ence Finals. Game 1 is Fri­day night.

That should allow plen­ty of time for Game 7 super­stars Niko­la Jokic and Jamal Mur­ray to recov­er. And though Denver’s cor­ner­stones turned in awe-inspir­ing per­for­mances – Jokic with a triple-dou­ble and Mur­ray with a game-high 40 points – Denver’s defense deserved much of the cred­it, too.  The Clip­pers didn’t make their first field goal of the fourth quar­ter until there was only 4:58 left in the game, by which time Den­ver had all but put the game away.

Jokic fin­ished with 16 points, 22 rebounds and 13 assists; his vision and his effort dom­i­nat­ing the game though he took just 13 shots due to the Clip­pers’ con­stant dou­ble teams. Mur­ray siz­zled with six 3‑pointers and fin­ished 15-of-26 from the field.

Clip­pers’ stars Kawhi Leonard and Paul George enjoyed no such free­dom. Den­ver held them to a com­bined 24 points on 10-of-38 shooting.

Mur­ray and Jokic flipped the script in the third quar­ter, tak­ing all the atten­tion they attract­ed in the first half and poured it into open looks for their team­mates. And unlike in the first half, the Nuggets’ role play­ers capitalized.

Jera­mi Grant, Paul Mill­sap and Gary Har­ris con­nect­ed on five 3‑pointers in the quar­ter, which upend­ed an ear­ly sev­en-point deficit. Mean­while, Jokic carved the Clip­pers liked a sur­geon and served six assists to pace the run­away.  The Nuggets car­ried an 82–74 lead into the final quarter.

Nuggets coach Michael Mal­one claimed his group was “relaxed” head­ing into Tuesday’s elim­i­na­tion game, while lob­bing a few jokes to help make his case.

“We’ve nev­er looked at it like putting any pres­sure on our­selves,” Mal­one said. “…  When we get down by 16 points in the third quar­ter, I know we’re ready.”

Mur­ray turned the court into his per­son­al can­vas dur­ing a scorch­ing sec­ond quar­ter, drop­ping 20 points on nine field goals while not nev­er leav­ing the game. The Clip­pers were up by as many as 12 late in the sec­ond quar­ter before Mur­ray scored 11 points over the final 3:57 to hack into the deficit. Denver’s late surge trimmed the Clip­pers lead to 56–54 head­ing into halftime.

 

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