Nuggets 90-79 Lakers (28 Feb, 2009) Box Score

Los Angeles Lakers

48-11, 21-7 away

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

Denver Nuggets

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	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
31	5-17	0-1	2-4	7	12	19	1	0	0	1	5	-7	12
40	6-13	0-0	6-6	3	7	10	2	2	0	2	2	-12	18
40	10-31	0-6	9-12	5	3	8	2	0	1	2	3	+4	29
34	2-7	0-2	2-2	2	3	5	1	1	0	1	2	+9	6
35	2-7	2-5	1-1	1	2	3	5	1	0	0	5	+9	7
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
9	1-5	0-0	0-0	3	2	5	1	0	0	2	3	-7	2
18	0-6	0-3	0-0	0	2	2	0	1	0	3	2	-18	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	1-1	0-0	1-2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	+4	3
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
14	1-4	0-2	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	-18	2
13	0-3	0-2	0-0	0	0	0	1	2	0	1	5	-19	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	28-94	2-21	21-27	22	31	53	14	7	1	15	28		79
	29.8%	9.5%	77.8%

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	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
41	4-17	0-3	4-4	1	11	12	4	2	2	5	3	-2	12
27	2-6	0-0	3-3	0	2	2	1	1	0	2	2	-11	7
8	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	4	-9	0
40	8-15	2-4	4-4	2	3	5	6	1	0	4	1	+9	22
17	1-4	0-2	0-1	0	2	2	1	0	0	0	4	-16	2
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
28	3-4	0-0	5-12	4	8	12	2	1	7	2	5	+27	11
11	3-6	0-3	0-0	2	1	3	0	0	0	1	2	+20	6
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
20	3-4	0-0	2-2	1	6	7	0	0	0	0	3	-3	8
15	0-2	0-1	0-0	0	2	2	1	2	0	1	1	+15	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	6-14	1-8	9-10	1	3	4	2	0	1	0	1	+25	22
	30-72	3-21	27-36	11	39	50	17	7	11	18	26		90
	41.7%	14.3%	75.0%

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

Regular Season Series

LAL lead 2-1

Lakers
104
Nuggets
97

Game 1

2/11

Nuggets
90
Lakers
104

Game 2

22/11

Lakers
79
Nuggets
90

Game 3

28/2

Nuggets
102
Lakers
116

Game 4

10/4

Ball Arena

2:00 AM, 28 February 2009

Denver, CO

Attendance: 19,920

Referees:
Bob Delaney
Joe Forte
Eli Roe

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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