Los Angeles Lakers @ Denver Nuggets

48-11, 21-7 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Lakers LAL	19	21	23	16	79
Nuggets DEN	16	30	20	24	90

Denver NuggetsNuggetsDEN

39-20, 22-7 Home

Los Angeles Lakers

starters
Lamar OdomL. Odom
Pau GasolP. Gasol
Kobe BryantK. Bryant
Luke WaltonL. Walton
Derek FisherD. Fisher
bench
Josh PowellJ. Powell
Trevor ArizaT. Ariza
Adam MorrisonA. Morrison
Didier Ilunga-MbengaD. Ilunga-Mbenga
Andrew BynumA. Bynum
Shannon BrownS. Brown
Jordan FarmarJ. Farmar
Sasha VujacicS. Vujacic
Sun YueS. Yue
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
31	12	5-17	0-1	2-4	19	1	1	0	0	7	12	5	-7
40	18	6-13	0-0	6-6	10	2	2	2	0	3	7	2	-12
40	29	10-31	0-6	9-12	8	2	2	0	1	5	3	3	+4
34	6	2-7	0-2	2-2	5	1	1	1	0	2	3	2	+9
35	7	2-7	2-5	1-1	3	5	0	1	0	1	2	5	+9
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
9	2	1-5	0-0	0-0	5	1	2	0	0	3	2	3	-7
18	0	0-6	0-3	0-0	2	0	3	1	0	0	2	2	-18
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	3	1-1	0-0	1-2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	+4
--	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
14	2	1-4	0-2	0-0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	-18
13	0	0-3	0-2	0-0	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	5	-19
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	79	28-94	2-21	21-27	53	14	15	7	1	22	31	28
		30%	10%	78%

Denver Nuggets

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

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
41	12	4-17	0-3	4-4	12	4	5	2	2	1	11	3	-2
27	7	2-6	0-0	3-3	2	1	2	1	0	0	2	2	-11
8	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	4	-9
40	22	8-15	2-4	4-4	5	6	4	1	0	2	3	1	+9
17	2	1-4	0-2	0-1	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	4	-16
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
28	11	3-4	0-0	5-12	12	2	2	1	7	4	8	5	+27
11	6	3-6	0-3	0-0	3	0	1	0	0	2	1	2	+20
--	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
20	8	3-4	0-0	2-2	7	0	0	0	0	1	6	3	-3
15	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	2	1	1	2	0	0	2	1	+15
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	22	6-14	1-8	9-10	4	2	0	0	1	1	3	1	+25
	90	30-72	3-21	27-36	50	17	18	7	11	11	39	26
		42%	14%	75%

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

Matchups

LAL

LAL lead season

2-1

DEN

104

Game 1@ DEN

Final

104

Game 2@ LAL

Final

Game 3@ DEN

Final

116

Game 4@ LAL

Final

102

Game Information

Denver, CO

Referee:Bob Delaney

Referee:Joe Forte

Referee:Eli Roe

Western Conference

Pacific	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
LA Lakers	53	29	.646	-	W3
Phoenix	45	37	.549	8	W1
LA Clippers	42	40	.512	11	W1
Golden State	37	45	.451	16	L3
Sacramento	22	60	.268	31	L1

Northwest	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Oklahoma City	64	18	.780	-	L2
Denver	54	28	.659	10	W12
Minnesota	49	33	.598	15	W2
Portland	42	40	.512	22	W2
Utah	22	60	.268	42	L1

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