Nuggets 119-113 Suns (16 Jan, 2009) Box Score

Phoenix Suns

22-14, 10-7 away

113

	1	2	3	4	OT	T
PHX	35	27	20	21	10	113
DEN	26	30	26	21	16	119

Denver Nuggets

27-13, 16-5 home

119

Phoenix Suns

starters
Grant HillG. Hill
Amar'e StoudemireA. Stoudemire
Robin LopezR. Lopez
Steve NashS. Nash
Jason RichardsonJ. Richardson
bench
Lou AmundsonL. Amundson
Matt BarnesM. Barnes
Jared DudleyJ. Dudley
Alando TuckerA. Tucker
Shaquille O'NealS. O'Neal
Goran DragicG. Dragic
Leandro BarbosaL. Barbosa
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
43	10-18	0-1	5-5	2	6	8	1	1	0	1	2	+6	25
35	6-9	0-0	9-10	1	7	8	3	3	1	5	5	+2	21
22	2-5	0-0	0-0	1	1	2	0	1	0	3	4	-19	4
46	5-10	4-5	6-6	1	6	7	14	0	1	6	2	-9	20
45	7-18	2-10	0-0	1	5	6	5	2	2	3	4	-8	16
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
14	2-3	0-0	2-2	2	4	6	1	0	2	0	3	+6	6
24	5-12	1-6	2-2	2	4	6	1	0	0	5	6	-3	13
4	1-1	0-0	0-2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	-2	2
4	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	-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	0	0
29	1-11	0-5	4-4	1	2	3	1	2	0	0	3	-1	6
	39-88	7-27	28-31	11	36	47	27	9	6	23	30		113
	44.3%	25.9%	90.3%

Denver Nuggets

starters
Kenyon MartinK. Martin
Nene N. Hilario
Chauncey BillupsC. Billups
Dahntay JonesD. Jones
JR SmithJ. Smith
bench
Chris AndersenC. Andersen
Linas KleizaL. Kleiza
Renaldo BalkmanR. Balkman
Steven HunterS. Hunter
Johan PetroJ. Petro
Anthony CarterA. Carter
Sonny WeemsS. Weems
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
41	11-23	1-2	1-5	3	5	8	2	7	1	2	3	0	24
43	5-9	0-0	7-10	3	11	14	1	2	1	3	5	+14	17
45	6-18	1-10	13-14	1	2	3	8	3	1	4	3	+7	26
23	1-5	0-0	1-2	3	1	4	3	1	0	2	4	+11	3
37	6-18	3-9	4-6	1	4	5	7	2	0	3	5	+18	19
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
15	1-1	0-0	4-4	2	6	8	1	0	0	0	1	0	6
31	8-11	1-2	1-2	1	3	4	3	0	0	1	3	-7	18
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
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	3-9	0-1	0-0	1	1	2	2	0	0	2	4	-13	6
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	41-94	6-24	31-43	15	33	48	27	15	3	17	28		119
	43.6%	25.0%	72.1%

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

Regular Season Series

Series tied 1-1

Nuggets
101
Suns
108

Game 1

21/12

Suns
113
Nuggets
119

Game 2

16/1

Nuggets
115
Suns
118

Game 3

24/3

Ball Arena

3:30 AM, 16 January 2009

Denver, CO

Attendance: 18,073

Referees:
Dick Bavetta
Sean Wright
Ed Malloy

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
LA Lakers	16	12	.571	-	W3
Golden State	15	12	.556	0.5	W1
LA Clippers	16	13	.552	0.5	L1
Phoenix	14	13	.519	1.5	L2
Sacramento	13	17	.433	4	L4

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Oklahoma City	22	5	.815	-	W7
Denver	15	11	.577	6.5	W1
Minnesota	14	13	.519	8	L2
Portland	9	19	.321	13.5	L1
Utah	7	20	.259	15	W2

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Series tied 1-1

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