Denver Nuggets @ Los Angeles Lakers
WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS - GAME 1 • LAL lead series 1-0
54-28, 21-20 Away
103
54-28, 21-20 Away
65-17, 36-5 Home
105
65-17, 36-5 Home
Game Leaders
Team Stats
49% (36-74)
Field Goal %
41% (37-90)
42% (8-19)
Three Point %
44% (11-25)
66% (23-35)
Free Throw %
83% (20-24)
30
Turnovers
32
53
Rebounds
54
13
Largest Lead
4
Game Information
Los Angeles, CA
Game Flow
--DEN
--LAL
Shot Chart
- Chauncey Billups makes 20-foot jumper (Carmelo Anthony assists)
- Trevor Ariza misses 28-foot three point jumper
- Dahntay Jones misses layup
- Dahntay Jones makes free throw 2 of 2
- Dahntay Jones misses free throw 1 of 2
- Carmelo Anthony makes layup (Dahntay Jones assists)
- Trevor Ariza makes 14-foot two point shot (Derek Fisher assists)
- Kenyon Martin misses 17-foot jumper
- Derek Fisher misses 21-foot jumper
- Trevor Ariza misses 27-foot three point jumper
- Kobe Bryant misses 16-foot jumper
- Carmelo Anthony makes 25-foot three point jumper (Chauncey Billups assists)
- Andrew Bynum misses 8-foot jumper
- Carmelo Anthony makes 13-foot jumper (Chauncey Billups assists)
- Kobe Bryant misses layup
- Kobe Bryant makes two point shot
- Kenyon Martin makes 10-foot two point shot
- Andrew Bynum makes 9-foot jumper (Derek Fisher assists)
- Nene Hilario makes two point shot (Chauncey Billups assists)
- Pau Gasol misses 9-foot jumper
- Kenyon Martin makes 14-foot jumper
- Kobe Bryant makes 11-foot two point shot
- Carmelo Anthony makes 17-foot jumper (Kenyon Martin assists)
- Derek Fisher misses 26-foot three point jumper
- Kenyon Martin misses layup
- Kobe Bryant makes running jumper
- Carmelo Anthony misses 18-foot jumper
- Chauncey Billups misses driving layup
- Derek Fisher misses 21-foot jumper
- Nene Hilario makes layup (Carmelo Anthony assists)
- Andrew Bynum makes driving layup (Derek Fisher assists)
- Kenyon Martin misses 21-foot jumper
- Chauncey Billups misses 26-foot three point jumper
- Trevor Ariza misses 7-foot jumper
- Carmelo Anthony makes driving layup
- Kenyon Martin makes driving dunk (Chauncey Billups assists)
- Kobe Bryant makes two point shot (Lamar Odom assists)
- Carmelo Anthony makes 26-foot three point jumper (J.R. Smith assists)
- Kobe Bryant misses 18-foot jumper
- Pau Gasol makes layup
- Pau Gasol makes free throw 1 of 1
- Carmelo Anthony makes jumper (Chauncey Billups assists)
- Chauncey Billups misses 28-foot three point jumper
- Sasha Vujacic makes 26-foot three point jumper (Luke Walton assists)
- Kenyon Martin makes 9-foot jumper (Chauncey Billups assists)
- Shannon Brown makes 27-foot three point jumper (Lamar Odom assists)
- Chauncey Billups misses free throw 1 of 2
- Chauncey Billups misses free throw 2 of 2
- Luke Walton misses three point jumper
- Lamar Odom misses 21-foot jumper
- Andrew Bynum makes free throw 1 of 2
- Andrew Bynum makes free throw 2 of 2
- J.R. Smith misses free throw 1 of 2
- J.R. Smith misses free throw 2 of 2
- Luke Walton misses 19-foot jumper
- Luke Walton makes 6-foot two point shot
- Chris Andersen makes free throw 1 of 2
- Chris Andersen makes free throw 2 of 2
- Jordan Farmar misses 25-foot three point jumper
- Sasha Vujacic misses 13-foot jumper
- Luke Walton misses layup
- Jordan Farmar makes 14-foot two point shot (Lamar Odom assists)
- Nene Hilario makes layup (Anthony Carter assists)
- J.R. Smith misses layup
- Luke Walton makes three point jumper (Jordan Farmar assists)
- Nene Hilario makes slam dunk (Anthony Carter assists)
- Lamar Odom makes 27-foot three point jumper (Jordan Farmar assists)
- Chris Andersen misses jumper
- Kobe Bryant misses 12-foot jumper
- Anthony Carter misses three point jumper
- Jordan Farmar misses 25-foot three point jumper
- Chauncey Billups misses free throw 1 of 2
- Chauncey Billups makes free throw 2 of 2
- Jordan Farmar misses 18-foot jumper
- Chauncey Billups makes free throw 1 of 2
- Chauncey Billups makes free throw 2 of 2
- Kobe Bryant misses 15-foot jumper
- Kobe Bryant makes free throw 1 of 2
- Kobe Bryant makes free throw 2 of 2
- Trevor Ariza makes free throw 1 of 2
- Trevor Ariza misses free throw 2 of 2
- Carmelo Anthony misses 21-foot jumper
- Kobe Bryant misses jumper
- Nene Hilario makes free throw 1 of 2
- Nene Hilario misses free throw 2 of 2
- Kobe Bryant makes driving dunk (Derek Fisher assists)
- Nene Hilario makes two point shot (Carmelo Anthony assists)
- Nene Hilario makes free throw 1 of 1
- Josh Powell makes 14-foot jumper (Trevor Ariza assists)
- Kenyon Martin misses free throw 1 of 2
- Kenyon Martin makes free throw 2 of 2
- Kobe Bryant misses 27-foot three point jumper
- Nene Hilario makes dunk (J.R. Smith assists)
- Kobe Bryant makes technical free throw
- Kobe Bryant makes 23-foot three point jumper (Josh Powell assists)
- Derek Fisher misses 26-foot three point jumper
- Carmelo Anthony makes driving dunk (J.R. Smith assists)
- Trevor Ariza misses layup
- Trevor Ariza misses tip shot
- Pau Gasol makes tip shot
- Carmelo Anthony misses 18-foot jumper
- Josh Powell makes free throw 1 of 2
- Josh Powell makes free throw 2 of 2
- Carmelo Anthony makes free throw 1 of 2
- Carmelo Anthony makes free throw 2 of 2
- Derek Fisher misses 19-foot jumper
- J.R. Smith misses free throw 1 of 2
- J.R. Smith makes free throw 2 of 2
- Kobe Bryant makes 15-foot jumper
- Kobe Bryant misses free throw 1 of 1
- Kenyon Martin makes slam dunk (Carmelo Anthony assists)
- Derek Fisher makes 25-foot three point jumper (Kobe Bryant assists)
- Kobe Bryant misses 18-foot jumper
- Carmelo Anthony makes free throw 1 of 2
- Carmelo Anthony makes free throw 2 of 2
- Kobe Bryant makes driving dunk (Pau Gasol assists)
- Dahntay Jones misses 24-foot three point jumper
- Trevor Ariza misses 26-foot three point jumper
- Chauncey Billups makes 19-foot running jumper
- Carmelo Anthony makes 17-foot jumper
- Pau Gasol makes 14-foot jumper (Derek Fisher assists)
- Carmelo Anthony misses 21-foot jumper
- Carmelo Anthony makes 26-foot three point jumper (Chauncey Billups assists)
- Lamar Odom makes slam dunk (Kobe Bryant assists)
- Derek Fisher misses 24-foot jumper
- Carmelo Anthony makes 25-foot three point jumper (Dahntay Jones assists)
- Kobe Bryant misses layup
- Pau Gasol makes two point shot
- Derek Fisher makes layup (Trevor Ariza assists)
- Kenyon Martin misses 18-foot jumper
- Kobe Bryant misses jumper
- Derek Fisher makes driving layup
- Chauncey Billups misses 27-foot three point jumper
- Dahntay Jones misses 8-foot jumper
- Derek Fisher makes 25-foot three point jumper (Lamar Odom assists)
- Chris Andersen makes driving layup
- Kobe Bryant makes 4-foot two point shot (Luke Walton assists)
- Chauncey Billups makes technical free throw
- Chauncey Billups makes free throw 1 of 2
- Chauncey Billups makes free throw 2 of 2
- Luke Walton misses 7-foot hook shot
- Chauncey Billups makes two point shot
- Shannon Brown misses layup
- Chauncey Billups misses 28-foot three point jumper
- Shannon Brown misses three point jumper
- Pau Gasol makes dunk (Luke Walton assists)
- Kobe Bryant misses 20-foot jumper
- J.R. Smith makes 27-foot three point jumper (Chauncey Billups assists)
- Shannon Brown misses 28-foot three point jumper
- Chauncey Billups misses 6-foot running jumper
- Kenyon Martin makes layup
- J.R. Smith misses 29-foot three point jumper
- Lamar Odom makes 5-foot hook shot (Kobe Bryant assists)
- Chris Andersen makes driving layup
- Chris Andersen makes free throw 1 of 1
- Kobe Bryant makes 28-foot three point jumper
- J.R. Smith makes 26-foot three point jumper (Chris Andersen assists)
- Jordan Farmar makes 26-foot three point jumper (Pau Gasol assists)
- J.R. Smith misses 27-foot three point jumper
- Chris Andersen misses free throw 1 of 2
- Chris Andersen makes free throw 2 of 2
- Lamar Odom misses layup
- Carmelo Anthony makes 4-foot jumper
- Sasha Vujacic misses 24-foot three point jumper
- J.R. Smith misses 28-foot three point jumper
- Lamar Odom misses layup
- Carmelo Anthony makes dunk (Nene Hilario assists)
- Sasha Vujacic misses 23-foot three point jumper
- Carmelo Anthony misses 27-foot three point jumper
- Kobe Bryant makes layup
- Kobe Bryant makes free throw 1 of 1
- Kenyon Martin makes 10-foot jumper (Anthony Carter assists)
- Kobe Bryant makes free throw 1 of 2
- Kobe Bryant makes free throw 2 of 2
- Anthony Carter misses driving layup
- Carmelo Anthony makes free throw 1 of 2
- Carmelo Anthony makes free throw 2 of 2
- Kobe Bryant makes 14-foot two point shot
- Carmelo Anthony misses free throw 1 of 2
- Carmelo Anthony makes free throw 2 of 2
- Lamar Odom misses 8-foot two point shot
- Pau Gasol misses tip shot
- Chauncey Billups misses 26-foot three point jumper
- Trevor Ariza makes 27-foot three point jumper (Pau Gasol assists)
- Kenyon Martin misses 16-foot jumper
- Anthony Carter misses 15-foot jumper
- Carmelo Anthony makes layup
- Kobe Bryant makes 21-foot jumper (Derek Fisher assists)
- Derek Fisher makes 24-foot three point jumper (Kobe Bryant assists)
- Pau Gasol misses free throw 1 of 2
- Pau Gasol misses free throw 2 of 2
- Chauncey Billups makes 27-foot three point jumper
- Derek Fisher misses 28-foot three point jumper
- Pau Gasol makes free throw 2 of 2
- Pau Gasol makes free throw 1 of 2
- Chris Andersen misses jumper
- Kobe Bryant misses 22-foot jumper
- Kobe Bryant makes free throw 1 of 2
- Kobe Bryant makes free throw 2 of 2
- Kobe Bryant makes free throw 1 of 2
- Kobe Bryant makes free throw 2 of 2
- Chauncey Billups makes 23-foot three point jumper (Kenyon Martin assists)
- Kobe Bryant makes free throw 1 of 2
- Kobe Bryant makes free throw 2 of 2
- J.R. Smith makes free throw 1 of 2
- J.R. Smith misses free throw 2 of 2
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Matchups
2025-26 Standings
Western Conference
| Northwest | W | L | PCT | GB | STRK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma City | 40 | 12 | .769 | - | L1 |
| Denver | 33 | 19 | .635 | 7 | L3 |
| Minnesota | 32 | 21 | .604 | 8.5 | L1 |
| Portland | 24 | 28 | .462 | 16 | W1 |
| Utah | 16 | 36 | .308 | 24 | 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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