Denver Nuggets @ Houston Rockets

1-0, 1-0 Away

105

1-0, 1-0 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Nuggets DEN	27	26	23	29	105
Rockets HOU	21	28	14	22	85

Houston RocketsRocketsHOU

0-1, 0-1 Home

Denver Nuggets

starters
Danilo GallinariD. Gallinari#8
Kenneth FariedK. Faried#35
Joffrey LauvergneJ. Lauvergne#77
Gary HarrisG. Harris#14
Emmanuel MudiayE. Mudiay#0
bench
Darrell ArthurD. Arthur#00
Nikola JokicN. Jokic#15
Erick GreenE. Green#11
Mike MillerM. Miller#3
Randy FoyeR. Foye#4
Jameer NelsonJ. Nelson#1
Will BartonW. Barton#5
JJ HicksonJ. Hickson#7
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
36	23	7-15	3-5	6-6	8	3	0	1	3	2	6	1	+20
31	18	8-10	0-0	2-6	9	1	2	1	3	3	6	5	+21
22	11	4-5	1-1	2-2	7	1	1	0	1	2	5	3	+16
29	5	2-5	1-2	0-0	5	5	1	3	1	0	5	4	+23
38	17	6-13	3-5	2-4	5	9	11	0	0	0	5	4	+13
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
16	5	2-5	1-1	0-0	2	1	1	0	2	1	1	1	-3
4	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	+1
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	+2
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	+2
18	3	1-6	1-6	0-0	4	2	1	2	0	0	4	1	-5
25	10	4-9	2-5	0-0	5	3	3	1	0	0	5	6	+6
20	11	5-10	1-2	0-0	4	0	0	1	0	1	3	0	+4
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	105	40-79	13-27	12-18	49	26	21	9	10	9	40	26
		51%	48%	67%

Houston Rockets

starters
Terrence JonesT. Jones#6
Trevor ArizaT. Ariza#1
Clint CapelaC. Capela#15
James HardenJ. Harden#13
Ty LawsonT. Lawson#3
bench
Corey BrewerC. Brewer#33
KJ McDanielsK. McDaniels#32
Sam DekkerS. Dekker#7
Montrezl HarrellM. Harrell#35
Patrick BeverleyP. Beverley#2
Jason TerryJ. Terry#31
Dwight HowardD. Howard#12
Marcus ThorntonM. Thornton#10
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
29	15	6-13	0-2	3-5	6	0	2	1	1	4	2	4	-18
33	6	2-10	1-7	1-2	2	1	3	3	1	1	1	2	-13
25	9	4-7	0-0	1-2	7	0	1	2	3	6	1	2	-16
36	22	6-21	2-12	8-9	6	6	3	2	2	1	5	2	-20
37	12	3-10	2-3	4-6	4	6	3	0	0	0	4	0	-16
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
29	5	2-12	1-3	0-2	7	0	1	2	1	0	7	3	-12
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-2
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-2
16	8	4-4	0-0	0-0	3	1	0	0	0	1	2	4	+2
21	8	3-9	2-7	0-0	8	1	3	2	0	2	6	2	-2
11	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	1	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	-1
DNP-SUSPENDED BY LEAGUE
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	85	30-87	8-35	17-26	44	17	16	13	8	15	29	19
		34%	23%	65%

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

Matchups

DEN

DEN leads season

1-0

HOU

105

Game 1•@ HOU

Final

107

Game 2•@ DEN

Final

114

Game 3•@ DEN

Final

108

Game Information

Houston, TX

Referee:Brent Barnaky

Referee:Brian Forte

Referee:Dan Crawford

Western Conference

Northwest	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Oklahoma City	50	15	.769	-	W5
Minnesota	40	24	.625	9.5	L1
Denver	39	25	.609	10.5	L1
Portland	31	34	.477	19	W1
Utah	19	45	.297	30.5	L1

Southwest	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
San Antonio	47	17	.734	-	W4
Houston	39	24	.619	7.5	L1
Memphis	23	39	.371	23	L3
Dallas	21	43	.328	26	L7
New Orleans	21	45	.318	27	W1

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