Houston Rockets @ Denver Nuggets

36-22, 16-13 Away

108

36-22, 16-13 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Rockets HOU	35	25	27	21	108
Nuggets DEN	26	29	14	28	97

Denver NuggetsNuggetsDEN

28-29, 15-16 Home

Houston Rockets

starters
Juwan HowardJ. Howard
Shane BattierS. Battier
Dikembe MutomboD. Mutombo
Rafer AlstonR. Alston
Tracy McGradyT. McGrady
bench
Chuck HayesC. Hayes
Jake TsakalidisJ. Tsakalidis
Yao MingY. Ming
Bob SuraB. Sura
Luther HeadL. Head
Bonzi WellsB. Wells
Kirk SnyderK. Snyder
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
34	18	9-19	0-0	0-1	6	7	3	2	0	3	3	0	0
34	15	5-7	5-6	0-0	3	0	1	2	0	1	2	3	0
33	5	1-5	0-0	3-4	22	1	0	0	1	8	14	3	0
28	12	5-14	2-8	0-0	3	6	1	0	0	1	2	3	0
32	28	11-30	2-6	4-4	6	7	3	2	0	2	4	3	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
14	4	2-4	0-0	0-0	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0
14	4	0-2	0-0	4-4	5	0	1	0	0	3	2	2	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
32	17	6-13	5-9	0-0	2	2	0	2	0	0	2	1	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	5	2-4	0-1	1-4	2	1	2	1	1	0	2	3	0
	108	41-98	14-30	12-17	51	24	13	9	2	18	33	18
		42%	47%	71%

Denver Nuggets

starters
Carmelo AnthonyC. Anthony
Marcus CambyM. Camby
Nene N. Hilario
Allen IversonA. Iverson
Yakhouba DiawaraY. Diawara
bench
Eduardo NajeraE. Najera
Kenyon MartinK. Martin
Linas KleizaL. Kleiza
Jamal SampsonJ. Sampson
Steve BlakeS. Blake
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
39	30	11-28	1-6	7-8	7	1	5	1	2	1	6	4	0
34	1	0-2	0-0	1-2	5	4	2	1	7	1	4	1	0
35	13	6-9	0-0	1-1	8	3	1	0	0	0	8	4	0
39	19	7-19	0-1	5-8	4	5	3	0	0	0	4	0	0
17	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
24	10	5-6	0-0	0-0	4	3	2	0	1	2	2	5	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	10	2-4	2-4	4-4	5	1	0	0	0	0	5	3	0
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	14	6-8	2-3	0-0	6	6	4	0	0	1	5	1	0
	97	37-78	5-15	18-23	40	23	18	2	10	5	35	19
		47%	33%	78%

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

Matchups

HOU

HOU wins season

2-1

DEN

Game 1•@ DEN

Final

113

Game 2•@ HOU

Final/OT

121

108

Game 3•@ DEN

Final

Game Information

Denver, CO

Referee:Bennett Salvatore

Referee:Leon Wood

Referee:Tommy Nunez Jr.

Western Conference

Southwest	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
San Antonio	35	16	.686	-	W3
Houston	31	19	.620	3.5	L2
Memphis	20	29	.408	14	W2
Dallas	19	32	.373	16	L6
New Orleans	13	40	.245	23	L3

Northwest	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Oklahoma City	40	12	.769	-	L1
Denver	33	19	.635	7	L3
Minnesota	32	20	.615	8	W1
Portland	23	28	.451	16.5	L6
Utah	16	36	.308	24	L1

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