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| Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Trail Blazers | 19 | 30 | 29 | 23 | 101 |
 Nuggets | 20 | 25 | 31 | 28 | 104 |
PORTeam statsDEN| Team | FG | 3PT | FT | REB | AST | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| POR | 36-8542.4% | 8-2532.0% | 21-2680.8% | 44 | 19 | 11 |
| DEN | 34-8341.0% | 10-3033.3% | 26-3378.8% | 49 | 23 | 15 |
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Denver Nuggets104| 37 | 13 | 4-14 | 2-7 | 3-4 | 0 | 0 | +11 | −7.5 | ||||||
| 34 | 7 | 0-7 | 0-5 | 7-8 | 0 | 0 | +12 | −6.9 | ||||||
| 34 | 38, Career high (his best before, 32) | 14-19 | 4-6 | 6-6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +11 | +16.5 | |||||
| 33 | 16 | 5-17 | 2-5 | 4-7 | +9 | −0.6 | ||||||||
| 29 | 11 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 1-2 | +14 | +6.2 | ||||||||
| Bench | ||||||||||||||
| 31 | 6 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 2-2 | −8 | +0.4 | ||||||||
| 24 | 9 | 3-7 | 1-3 | 2-2 | −7 | +0.8 | ||||||||
| 11 | 1 | 0-4 | 0-2 | 0 | 0 | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −5 | −6.0 | |||
| 8 | 3 | 1-3 | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | +0.4 | |||
| Team | 104 | 34-8341.0% | 10-3033.3% | 49 | 23 | 15 | 20 | 26-3378.8% | 14 | 7 | 8 | |||
Bench 19 points on 6 for 19 shooting
Did not play: Richard Jefferson, Juancho Hernangomez, Malik Beasley and Darrell Arthur (coach’s decision).
Portland Trail Blazers101| 38 | 25 | 10-18 | 4-8 | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −8 | +3.2 | |||||
| 35 | 12 | 3-14 | 0-3 | 6-6 | 0 | 0 | −7 | −7.1 | ||||||
| 29 | 10 | 4-9 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | −7 | −1.8 | |||||
| 28 | 8 | 2-10 | 0-5 | 0 | 4-6 | 0 | 0 | −11 | −6.8 | |||||
| 27 | 19 | 7-13 | 0-0 | 5-6 | −8 | +8.5 | ||||||||
| Bench | ||||||||||||||
| 22 | 7 | 3-7 | 1-4 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | +4 | −2.0 | |||||
| 21 | 9 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0 | 3-4 | +9 | +3.4 | |||||||
| 20 | 4 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 0 | 2-2 | 0 | +9 | +1.1 | ||||||
| 20 | 7 | 3-4 | 1-2 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | +4 | −1.7 | ||||||
| Team | 101 | 36-8542.4% | 8-2532.0% | 44 | 19 | 11 | 22 | 21-2680.8% | 11 | 11 | 6 | |||
Bench 27 points on 10 for 21 shooting
Did not play: Maurice Harkless, Jake Layman, Meyers Leonard and Noah Vonleh (coach’s decision).
Nuggets104Trail Blazers101ClickTap a team’s number to see the plays behind it.
PS, Performance Score: points above what an average player adds in the same minutes. The game’s highs are in blue, hot shooting in gold, cold in gray. ClickTap a column’s heading to sort by it.
Jamal Murray scored a career-high 38 points, and the Denver Nuggets beat the Portland Trail Blazers 104-101.
Murray’s three-point play put the Nuggets ahead for good with 33 seconds left in the fourth quarter.
The Trail Blazers had the ball down 1 with 12 seconds left, but Mason Plumlee blocked Damian Lillard’s driving layup. It would have put the Trail Blazers ahead.
During clutch time, the Nuggets outscored the Trail Blazers 16-11. Murray scored 6 of the Nuggets’ 16 on 2 for 3 shooting and 1 for 1 at the line. With 2:28 left, Nikola Jokić stole the ball from Jusuf Nurkić, and Murray’s 3-pointer off it tied the game at 95.
Murray and Plumlee set each other up for 6 baskets and 13 points.
For the Trail Blazers, Lillard had 25 points and 8 assists, and Nurkić added 19 points, 12 rebounds and 3 blocks.
The Trail Blazers gave up 14 offensive rebounds, about 4 more than usual for the shots the Nuggets missed. The Trail Blazers’ starters were outscored 51-37 in 20 minutes together.
Denver NuggetsPortland Trail BlazersPS, Performance Score: points above what an average player adds in the same minutes.
The five plays that moved the chance to win most, in order.
Each play from the side of the team that made it: its chance to win before and after, and the change in percentage points. On the court, each shot is the shooter’s face (gray when he missed), bigger the more it moved the chance. The Nuggets’ chance bottomed out at 14% (4th quarter, 5:00 left). Chances from the site’s game model (the per-play numbers the Clutch and Performances tabs use aren’t built for this game).
78 points from the field on 83 shots: 6.8 fewer than the league scores from the same zones.
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| Zone | FG | % | League |
|---|---|---|---|
| At the rim | 7-21 | 33.3% | 63% |
| In the paint | 10-23 | 43.5% | 40% |
| Mid-range | 7-9 | 77.8% | 40% |
| Corner 3 | 3-6 | 50.0% | 39% |
| Above-the-break 3 | 7-24 | 29.2% | 36% |
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Damian Lillard | 28 | 4 | 2-4 | −3 |
| Shabazz Napier | 10 | 2 | 1-1 | 0 |
| Evan Turner | 9 | 8 | 3-4 | +6 |
| CJ McCollum | 6 | 5 | 2-2 | +4 |
| Everyone else | 11 | 24 | 9-14 | +21 |
The tracking credits him with 43 points on 63 possessions. He usually scores about 15 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al-Farouq Aminu | 36 | 12 | 4-14 | +3 |
| Ed Davis | 11 | 3 | 1-2 | 0 |
| Jusuf Nurkić | 6 | 0 | 0-0 | −1 |
| Everyone else | 13 | 1 | 0-1 | −2 |
The tracking credits him with 16 points on 65 possessions. He usually scores about 16 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CJ McCollum | 38 | 7 | 3-8 | −3 |
| Damian Lillard | 18 | 0 | 0-2 | −5 |
| Evan Turner | 5 | 3 | 1-2 | +2 |
| Shabazz Napier | 4 | 0 | 0-0 | −1 |
| Everyone else | 7 | 5 | 1-4 | +3 |
The tracking credits him with 15 points on 72 possessions. He usually scores about 18 on that many.
What the players each one guarded scored, against what they usually score on as many possessions.
Possessions, and parts of possessions when defenders switched, from the NBA’s matchup tracking. The line under a defender’s name: his share of the scorer’s possessions. Usual: what the scorer averaged a possession against every defender in the regular season, eased toward the league’s rate when he has few possessions.
DEN win probability — AI model powered by play-by-play data
POR
50/50
DEN
Highest Leverage Moments
Lillard 5' Driving Layup (25 PTS)
Q4 0:42
30.7%
55→24
Murray 25' 3PT Jump Shot (35 PTS) (Plumlee 5 AST)
Q4 2:07
29.5%
27→56
Murray 5' Driving Layup (37 PTS)
Q4 0:34
28.4%
24→53
Murray Free Throw 1 of 1 (38 PTS)
Q4 0:34
18.2%
53→71
Plumlee 2' Layup (11 PTS) (Jokic 5 AST)
Q4 1:26
16.3%
56→73
