Denver Nuggets @ Chicago Bulls

6-2, 4-2 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Nuggets DEN	22	24	25	19	90
Bulls CHI	20	23	23	23	89

Chicago BullsBullsCHI

4-3, 3-1 Home

Denver Nuggets

starters
Carmelo AnthonyC. Anthony
Kenyon MartinK. Martin
Nene N. Hilario
Chauncey BillupsC. Billups
Arron AfflaloA. Afflalo
bench
Malik AllenM. Allen
Chris AndersenC. Andersen
Joey GrahamJ. Graham
Renaldo BalkmanR. Balkman
Johan PetroJ. Petro
Anthony CarterA. Carter
JR SmithJ. Smith
Ty LawsonT. Lawson
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
36	20	8-22	1-2	3-3	5	3	4	1	0	0	5	2	-6
35	15	7-15	0-1	1-2	10	1	0	0	1	3	7	1	-2
40	11	5-7	0-0	1-2	12	0	5	1	1	5	7	2	-13
33	17	5-12	0-3	7-8	2	6	1	3	0	1	1	2	-10
19	10	4-8	2-3	0-0	2	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	+1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	4	2-3	0-0	0-0	9	0	1	1	0	4	5	2	+17
--	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
8	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	1	3	2	1	0	0	1	2	-5
29	5	1-9	0-3	3-4	3	5	3	1	0	0	3	2	+12
18	8	3-6	2-3	0-0	2	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	+11
	90	35-84	5-16	15-19	46	20	18	8	3	15	31	13
		42%	31%	79%

Chicago Bulls

starters
Luol DengL. Deng
Taj GibsonT. Gibson
John SalmonsJ. Salmons
Joakim NoahJ. Noah
Derrick RoseD. Rose
bench
Tyrus ThomasT. Thomas
James JohnsonJ. Johnson
Jerome JamesJ. James
Brad MillerB. Miller
Aaron GrayA. Gray
Jannero PargoJ. Pargo
Lindsey HunterL. Hunter
Kirk HinrichK. Hinrich
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
40	21	8-14	1-1	4-6	6	5	3	0	2	3	3	1	+10
28	10	5-8	0-0	0-0	6	1	2	3	1	3	3	4	+16
38	11	3-13	3-7	2-4	5	5	0	1	2	0	5	2	+9
43	12	6-12	0-0	0-0	21	2	3	1	2	6	15	5	-1
39	22	10-17	0-0	2-2	1	5	0	1	2	1	0	2	+12
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	2	1-4	0-1	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	+1
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	2	1-3	0-2	0-0	2	1	2	0	0	0	2	4	-24
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	3	1-6	0-2	1-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	-13
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	6	3-10	0-5	0-0	2	4	3	1	0	1	1	2	-15
	89	38-87	4-18	9-13	44	23	13	7	9	15	29	22
		44%	22%	69%

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

Matchups

DEN

DEN leads season

1-0

CHI

Game 1@ CHI

Final

112

Game 2@ DEN

Final

Game Information

Chicago, IL

Referee:Mark Wunderlich

Referee:Matt Boland

Referee:Eric Dalen

Western Conference

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

Eastern Conference

Central	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Detroit	60	22	.732	-	W3
Cleveland	52	30	.634	8	W1
Milwaukee	32	50	.390	28	L1
Chicago	31	51	.378	29	L2
Indiana	19	63	.232	41	L2

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