Los Angeles Lakers @ Denver Nuggets

21-22, 7-11 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Lakers LAL	29	31	19	17	96
Nuggets DEN	34	39	29	31	133

Denver NuggetsNuggetsDEN

22-19, 11-7 Home

133

22-19, 11-7 Home

Los Angeles Lakers

starters
LeBron JamesL. James#6
Dwight HowardD. Howard#39
Avery BradleyA. Bradley#20
Russell WestbrookR. Westbrook#0
Malik MonkM. Monk#11
bench
Trevor ArizaT. Ariza#1
Kent BazemoreK. Bazemore#9
Stanley JohnsonS. Johnson#14
Talen Horton-TuckerT. Horton-Tucker#5
DeAndre JordanD. Jordan#10
Wayne EllingtonW. Ellington#2
Austin ReavesA. Reaves#15
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
31	25	9-23	2-8	5-7	9	2	1	0	2	1	8	0	-17
21	13	6-8	0-1	1-2	3	1	1	1	0	3	0	3	-23
20	3	1-2	1-2	0-0	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	-4
26	19	7-15	1-2	4-4	5	3	0	0	0	1	4	1	-11
25	4	2-5	0-1	0-0	4	6	2	0	0	1	3	2	-13
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
21	9	3-5	3-5	0-0	3	3	0	0	0	1	2	0	-22
9	6	2-5	2-3	0-0	2	1	2	0	0	0	2	2	-9
13	2	1-2	0-1	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	-14
21	3	1-5	0-2	1-2	4	1	0	1	0	0	4	1	-15
12	4	2-3	0-0	0-0	3	2	0	0	1	1	2	1	+1
15	3	1-4	1-4	0-0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	2	-26
27	5	1-5	0-1	3-4	4	1	2	0	0	0	4	0	-32
	96	36-82	10-30	14-19	41	21	10	4	3	8	33	15
		44%	33%	74%

Denver Nuggets

starters
Jeff GreenJe. Green#32
Aaron GordonA. Gordon#50
Nikola JokicN. Jokic#15
Monte MorrisM. Morris#11
Will BartonW. Barton#5
bench
James Ennis IIIJ. Ennis III#10
Zeke NnajiZ. Nnaji#22
Davon ReedD. Reed#9
Facundo CampazzoF. Campazzo#7
Bones HylandB. Hyland#3
Austin RiversA. Rivers#25
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
29	26	10-14	4-5	2-2	3	4	0	1	0	0	3	2	+21
23	11	4-9	3-5	0-0	3	4	0	0	0	1	2	4	+9
28	17	7-12	1-2	2-2	12	13	3	1	0	2	10	1	+16
22	10	3-8	2-2	2-2	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	+3
23	12	4-5	2-2	2-2	3	1	1	0	0	0	3	0	+5
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
7	2	1-4	0-2	0-0	2	3	0	0	0	1	1	0	+3
24	8	3-11	1-4	1-2	11	0	0	1	1	3	8	4	+27
27	11	4-7	3-4	0-0	4	2	0	1	1	1	3	1	+33
26	9	3-6	1-4	2-2	3	5	0	1	0	0	3	2	+34
33	27	8-15	6-10	5-5	10	2	2	2	0	1	9	3	+34
DNP-NON-COVID ILLNESS
	133	47-91	23-40	16-17	51	35	6	9	2	9	42	17
		52%	57%	94%

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

Matchups

LAL

DEN leads season

1-0

DEN

Game 1•@ DEN

Final

133

118

Game 2•@ LAL

Final

129

146

Game 3•@ DEN

Final/OT

141

Game Information

Denver, CO

Referee:John Goble

Referee:Dedric Taylor

Referee:Scott Twardoski

Western Conference

Pacific	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
LA Lakers	40	25	.615	-	W3
Phoenix	38	27	.585	2	W3
LA Clippers	32	32	.500	7.5	W2
Golden State	32	33	.492	8	L3
Sacramento	16	50	.242	24.5	W2

Northwest	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Oklahoma City	51	15	.773	-	W6
Minnesota	40	25	.615	10.5	L2
Denver	39	26	.600	11.5	L2
Portland	31	35	.470	20	L1
Utah	20	45	.308	30.5	W1

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