Los Angeles Lakers @ Denver Nuggets

8-1, 2-1 Away

112

8-1, 2-1 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Lakers LAL	26	38	29	19	112
Nuggets DEN	24	35	26	33	118

Denver NuggetsNuggetsDEN

5-4, 3-1 Home

118

5-4, 3-1 Home

Los Angeles Lakers

starters
Lamar OdomL. Odom
Pau GasolP. Gasol
Metta World PeaceM. World Peace
Kobe BryantK. Bryant
Derek FisherD. Fisher
bench
Derrick CaracterD. Caracter
Matt BarnesM. Barnes
Luke WaltonL. Walton
Devin EbanksD. Ebanks
Theo RatliffT. Ratliff
Andrew BynumA. Bynum
Steve BlakeS. Blake
Shannon BrownS. Brown
Sasha VujacicS. Vujacic
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
26	3	1-6	0-1	1-2	12	3	1	0	0	6	6	2	+10
44	17	6-17	0-0	5-6	20	2	3	2	1	5	15	3	-5
42	18	7-11	1-3	3-4	5	2	1	2	3	1	4	5	-9
41	34	11-32	3-10	9-13	3	5	2	1	0	1	2	4	+4
32	8	3-7	2-4	0-0	1	4	0	2	0	0	1	1	+5
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
4	4	1-1	0-0	2-2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	-1
13	6	3-7	0-2	0-0	3	0	3	0	1	1	2	3	-7
--	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	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	3	1-3	1-2	0-0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	3	-11
22	19	7-14	2-7	3-3	4	2	0	1	1	2	2	2	-16
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	112	40-98	9-29	23-30	50	19	10	8	6	18	32	25
		41%	31%	77%

Denver Nuggets

starters
Carmelo AnthonyC. Anthony
Nene N. Hilario
Shelden WilliamsS. Williams
Chauncey BillupsC. Billups
Arron AfflaloA. Afflalo
bench
Al HarringtonA. Harrington
Chris AndersenC. Andersen
Kenyon MartinK. Martin
Gary ForbesG. Forbes
Renaldo BalkmanR. Balkman
Melvin ElyM. Ely
Anthony CarterA. Carter
JR SmithJ. Smith
Ty LawsonT. Lawson
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
41	32	14-25	1-3	3-3	13	2	1	0	2	5	8	3	+4
31	18	7-13	0-0	4-4	5	3	1	1	1	1	4	5	+6
15	5	2-3	0-0	1-3	5	2	0	0	1	2	3	1	-11
30	15	3-11	1-7	8-8	2	4	2	0	0	0	2	2	-10
34	5	2-7	1-4	0-0	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	2	-6
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
23	7	3-8	1-5	0-1	8	2	2	1	0	1	7	5	+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
16	6	3-5	0-0	0-1	3	0	0	2	1	1	2	0	+12
--	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
26	13	4-6	2-4	3-3	5	4	2	1	0	0	5	2	+17
23	17	5-10	1-2	6-8	2	5	1	0	0	1	1	0	+16
	118	43-88	7-25	25-31	43	25	11	5	5	11	32	20
		49%	28%	81%

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

Matchups

LAL

DEN leads season

1-0

DEN

112

Game 1@ DEN

Final

118

107

Game 2@ DEN

Final

Game 3@ LAL

Final

Game Information

Los Angeles, CA

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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