Denver Nuggets @ Los Angeles Lakers

Preseason

2-0, 2-0 Away

101

2-0, 2-0 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Nuggets DEN	32	17	23	29	101
Lakers LAL	37	21	22	17	97

Los Angeles LakersLakersLAL

1-1, 1-1 Home

Denver Nuggets

starters
Wilson ChandlerW. Chandler#21
Jusuf NurkicJ. Nurkic#23
Nikola JokicN. Jokic#15
Will BartonW. Barton#5
Emmanuel MudiayE. Mudiay#0
bench
Juancho HernangomezJ. Hernangomez#41
Robbie John HummelR. Hummel#4
Jarnell StokesJ. Stokes#12
Mike MillerM. Miller#3
Malik BeasleyM. Beasley#25
Jameer NelsonJ. Nelson#1
Jamal MurrayJ. Murray#27
Danilo GallinariD. Gallinari#8
Darrell ArthurD. Arthur#00
Kenneth FariedK. Faried#35
JaKarr SampsonJ. Sampson#9
Nate WoltersN. Wolters#10
D.J. KennedyD.J. Kennedy#17
Axel ToupaneA. Toupane#6
Gary HarrisG. Harris#14
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
25	15	5-12	1-6	4-4	8	3	0	1	1	1	7	1	+6
27	18	5-12	0-0	8-9	14	2	6	4	1	5	9	2	-4
29	8	3-9	0-2	2-2	10	3	2	4	1	3	7	3	+2
31	20	6-14	2-4	6-6	3	2	0	2	0	0	3	2	-5
24	4	2-10	0-2	0-1	1	6	4	0	0	0	1	2	-1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
19	8	2-5	1-2	3-4	6	1	0	1	0	2	4	5	-1
9	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	+14
14	4	2-4	0-0	0-0	6	0	1	0	0	2	4	1	+7
3	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	-11
12	6	2-8	0-2	2-2	3	0	1	0	1	1	2	2	+12
16	2	1-4	0-2	0-0	1	2	2	0	0	1	0	0	-9
32	16	6-17	2-6	2-2	7	6	2	0	1	0	7	0	+10
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-LEFT KNEE SURGERY
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-RIGHT GROIN STRAIN
	101	34-96	6-27	27-30	60	25	18	13	5	15	45	20
		35%	22%	90%

Los Angeles Lakers

starters
Julius RandleJ. Randle#30
Metta World PeaceM. World Peace#37
Timofey MozgovT. Mozgov#20
Lou WilliamsL. Williams#23
D'Angelo RussellD. Russell#1
bench
Thomas RobinsonT. Robinson#15
Travis WearT. Wear#21
Tarik BlackT. Black#28
Anthony BrownA. Brown#3
Larry Nance Jr.L. Nance Jr.#7
Brandon IngramB. Ingram#14
Yi JianlianY. Jianlian#11
Ivica ZubacI. Zubac#40
Marcelinho HuertasM. Huertas#4
Julian JacobsJ. Jacobs#12
Jose CalderonJ. Calderon#5
Nick YoungN. Young#0
Jordan ClarksonJ. Clarkson#6
Luol DengL. Deng#9
Zach AugusteZ. Auguste#29
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
21	6	3-5	0-1	0-0	6	3	2	1	0	1	5	2	-5
6	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	-5
21	4	2-7	0-0	0-0	5	1	4	0	0	0	5	4	-10
22	10	3-8	2-4	2-3	4	3	1	1	0	0	4	1	-2
24	21	7-14	4-8	3-4	4	5	4	1	0	0	4	1	+1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
9	0	0-1	0-0	0-2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	-14
6	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	2	0	1	0	0	1	1	1	-10
13	6	3-5	0-0	0-0	4	0	2	1	0	2	2	4	+9
17	2	1-5	0-2	0-0	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	-9
18	11	4-7	0-1	3-4	5	0	2	1	0	1	4	2	+10
17	6	2-8	1-2	1-2	2	2	0	1	1	1	1	1	+18
10	3	1-6	0-2	1-2	4	1	0	0	0	0	4	0	-9
3	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	+8
10	2	1-3	0-0	0-0	2	3	0	1	0	0	2	1	0
6	3	1-2	0-0	1-3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	-10
8	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	+5
10	6	2-4	2-3	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	-10
20	15	6-12	1-4	2-2	2	2	1	4	0	1	1	2	+13
DNP-BRUISED LEFT KNEE
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	97	37-94	10-30	13-22	47	21	18	12	3	8	39	24
		39%	33%	59%

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

Matchups

DEN

DEN wins season

2-1

LAL

127

Game 1•@ LAL

Final

121

116

Game 2•@ LAL

Final

120

129

Game 3•@ DEN

Final

101

Game Information

Los Angeles, CA

Referee:Jason Phillips

Referee:Pat Fraher

Referee:J.T. Orr

Western Conference

Northwest	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Oklahoma City	40	13	.755	-	L2
Denver	33	19	.635	6.5	L3
Minnesota	32	21	.604	8	L1
Portland	24	28	.462	15.5	W1
Utah	16	36	.308	23.5	L1

Pacific	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
LA Lakers	31	19	.620	-	W2
Phoenix	31	21	.596	1	L1
Golden State	28	24	.538	4	W1
LA Clippers	24	27	.471	7.5	W1
Sacramento	12	41	.226	20.5	L11

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