Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets continue their defense of the NBA title on the night between Thursday and Friday, Los Angeles time. The Nuggets won the first two games of their first-round Western Conference playoff series against the LA Lakers, with Jamal Murray’s last-second basket clinching a 2-0 lead in Game 2 especially thrilling.
The third match of the series will be played in the middle of the night (at four o’clock CET), so set your alarm clocks for the TV broadcast on Arena Sport 1.
With a magical turnaround, the Nuggets won the second match with Jamal Murray’s basket at the sound of the siren (101:99). It was Denver’s 10th straight win over the Lakers in the last two years, and the Los Angeles team’s loss was especially hard on LeBron James.
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LeBron James played fantastic basketball in the last quarter against Denver, he managed to “repel” the rushes and comeback of the Nuggets with three-pointers and had the opportunity to settle the match. With 13 seconds left, James “got rid of” one of the best defenders in the NBA, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, who ended up on the ground, and suddenly got space for an “open” three. He missed, Porter “caught” the rebound, and Nikola Jokic watched Jamal Murray score a basket for a crazy victory (101:99) in the last second.
Namely, the “King” has never lost nine times in a row against the same team in his career (he missed one loss against the Nuggets in this series).
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The Denver Nuggets, after a great turnaround, managed to win over the Los Angeles Lakers 101:99, and the hero of the match was Jamal Murray, who hit the winning shot in the last second. Thus, the Nuggets took a 2:0 lead in the series of the first round of the Western Conference playoffs. This match was followed with great attention by the legendary ace Magic Johnson, who announced himself on social networks after the defeat of his beloved Lakers.
LeBron: It makes no sense! What are they looking at?! That’s a foul!
Nikola Jokić was great as usual and finished the match with another triple-double: 27 points, 20 rebounds and 10 assists.
The Serbian is the only player who has played a “25/20/10” playoff game in the last 48 years! Since 1976 and the merger of the ABA and NBA, no one has ever had 25+ points, 20+ rebounds and 10+ assists in the playoffs. Nobody, except for Nikola Jokić, and this was his fourth time in his career!
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Goran Dragić is a legend of Slovenian basketball and the NBA. During a guest appearance on the podcast with former Miami teammates Judonis Haslem and Mike Miller, Dragić talked about various topics, he had to explain what Yugoslavia is, and he also had to choose the best “international” five in the NBA.
Denver defended its home court with the dominance of Jokic, although the largest part of the American public is with LeBron James, who wants to strengthen the cult of his personality in American basketball in his veteran years.
He was on the verge of a big victory in the second match, he made two important three-pointers in the end, but he did not have the strength to defeat the champion. After the game, LeBron was furious with the referees.
@sportal.rs The police announced new details about the scandal of Nikola Jokić’s brother! While Nikola Jokić dominated on the field, his brothers had a physical confrontation in the stands. There was chaos and at one point Strahinja, Nikola’s brother, hit one of the fans.
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