Denver Nuggets @ Cleveland Cavaliers

12-11, 4-8 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Nuggets DEN	19	21	25	20	85
Cavaliers CLE	24	20	22	28	94

Cleveland CavaliersCavaliersCLE

12-9, 8-3 Home

Denver Nuggets

starters
Carmelo AnthonyC. Anthony
Kenyon MartinK. Martin
Francisco ElsonF. Elson
Andre MillerA. Miller
Greg BucknerG. Buckner
bench
Eduardo NajeraE. Najera
DerMarr JohnsonD. Johnson
Bryon RussellB. Russell
Linas KleizaL. Kleiza
Nene N. Hilario
Earl BoykinsE. Boykins
Earl WatsonE. Watson
Voshon LenardV. Lenard
Julius HodgeJ. Hodge
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
42	23	8-23	0-1	7-12	5	1	3	1	0	3	2	4	0
33	10	5-10	0-0	0-1	6	4	4	1	0	1	5	4	0
27	2	1-5	0-0	0-0	3	0	0	1	1	1	2	2	0
35	11	4-11	0-0	3-5	4	9	3	0	1	0	4	2	0
36	15	5-9	3-6	2-2	3	0	0	3	0	0	3	4	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
33	8	2-9	0-0	4-4	11	0	2	1	0	6	5	3	0
7	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	14	5-10	4-7	0-0	4	3	1	2	0	2	2	1	0
5	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	85	31-81	7-16	16-24	37	18	15	9	2	13	24	21
		38%	44%	67%

Cleveland Cavaliers

starters
Drew GoodenD. Gooden
LeBron JamesL. James
Zydrunas IlgauskasZ. Ilgauskas
Eric SnowE. Snow
Larry HughesL. Hughes
bench
Alan HendersonA. Henderson
Donyell MarshallD. Marshall
Ira NewbleI. Newble
Luke JacksonL. Jackson
Anderson VarejaoA. Varejao
Damon JonesD. Jones
Sasha PavlovicS. Pavlovic
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
34	10	2-5	0-0	6-10	8	2	3	0	1	4	4	1	0
45	26	11-18	1-4	3-6	4	9	3	1	0	0	4	3	0
31	16	6-10	0-0	4-4	4	0	4	0	3	2	2	5	0
33	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	2	3	5	1	0	1	1	3	0
34	12	5-10	0-1	2-2	4	6	1	2	0	0	4	5	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
3	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	11	4-9	2-4	1-2	12	2	0	3	1	1	11	3	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	17	6-12	5-11	0-2	3	1	2	1	0	1	2	0	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	94	35-66	8-20	16-26	37	23	21	8	5	9	28	21
		53%	40%	62%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Regular Season Series

CLE leads 1-0

Nuggets
85
Cavaliers
94

Game 1

16/12

Cavaliers
89
Nuggets
90

Game 2

19/1

Rocket Arena

1:00 AM, 16 December 2005

Cleveland, OH

Attendance: 17,182

Referees:
David Jones
Joe Forte
Olandis Poole

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Oklahoma City	25	3	.893	-	L1
Denver	20	6	.769	4	W6
Minnesota	18	10	.643	7	W1
Portland	11	16	.407	13.5	W2
Utah	10	16	.385	14	L1

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Detroit	21	6	.778	-	L1
Cleveland	15	14	.517	7	L3
Chicago	12	15	.444	9	W2
Milwaukee	11	17	.393	10.5	L2
Indiana	6	21	.222	15	L3

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Denver Nuggets @ Cleveland Cavaliers

Regular Season Series

CLE leads 1-0

Game Information

2025-26 Northwest Standings

2025-26 Central Standings

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