Nikola Jokić
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jusuf Nurkić | 49 | 18 | 7-15 | −1 |
| Enes Freedom | 10 | 7 | 2-3 | +3 |
| Robert Covington | 4 | 2 | 1-2 | 0 |
| Everyone else | 8 | 2 | 1-1 | −1 |
The tracking credits him with 29 points on 71 possessions. He usually scores about 27 on that many.
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| Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 25 | 22 | 24 | 106 | |
| 36 | 21 | 27 | 21 | 105 |
| Team | FG | 3PT | FT | REB | AST | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEN | 39-8844.3% | 13-3933.3% | 15-1788.2% | 46 | 24 | 13 |
| POR | 40-8746.0% | 12-3633.3% | 13-1586.7% | 41 | 21 | 11 |
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| 36 | 25 | 9-18 | 1-6 | 0 | 6-7 | 0 | +3 | +3.5 | ||||||
| 34 | 14 | 5-13 | 2-8 | 2-3 | 0 | +4 | −5.1 | |||||||
| 31 | 17 | 8-12 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | +0.8 | ||||||
| 29 | 12 | 4-11 | 2-4 | 2-2 | 0 | +2 | −0.8 | |||||||
| 27 | 12 | 4-6 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0 | +8 | +3.7 | |||||||
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| 25 | 7 | 3-10 | 1-5 | 0-0 | −2 | −2.3 | ||||||||
| 18 | 0 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 0 | 0-0 | +2 | −2.5 | |||||||
| 14 | 5 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0 | 0 | 1-1 | 0 | 0 | −6 | +0.5 | ||||
| 13 | 5 | 1-2 | 1-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | −6 | +0.9 | |||
| 12 | 9 | 3-9 | 1-4 | 0 | 2-2 | 0 | −2 | +0.5 | ||||||
| Team | 106 | 39-8844.3% | 13-3933.3% | 46 | 24 | 13 | 16 | 15-1788.2% | 16 | 7 | 5 | |||
Bench 26 points on 9 for 28 shooting
Did not play: Zeke Nnaji, Bol Bol, Vlatko Čančar, Markus Howard and JaVale McGee (coach’s decision).
| 38 | 14 | 6-13 | 2-7 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | −2.6 | ||||||
| 37 | 22 | 9-23 | 2-10 | 0 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | −5 | −2.0 | |||||
| 35 | 12 | 5-9 | 2-4 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | −2 | −1.1 | |||||
| 34 | 17 | 4-10 | 1-4 | 0 | 8-8 | 0 | 0 | +7 | −0.3 | |||||
| 29 | 8 | 3-11 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 0 | −4 | 0.0 | |||||||
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| 20 | 12 | 5-9 | 2-5 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | +0.4 | ||||
| 18 | 11 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2.7 | ||||||
| 15 | 9 | 3-4 | 3-4 | 0 | 0-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | +0.2 | ||||
| 13 | 0 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | −4.6 | |||
| Team | 105 | 40-8746.0% | 12-3633.3% | 41 | 21 | 11 | 16 | 13-1586.7% | 9 | 7 | 2 | |||
Bench 32 points on 13 for 21 shooting
Did not play: CJ Elleby, T.J. Leaf, Harry Giles III and Rondae Hollis-Jefferson (coach’s decision); Zach Collins and Derrick Jones Jr. (injury/illness).
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Nikola Jokić scored 25 points, and the Denver Nuggets beat the Portland Trail Blazers 106-105 for their fourth straight win.
Jokić’s free throw put the Nuggets ahead for good with 1:15 left in the fourth quarter.
Damian Lillard stole the ball from Aaron Gordon with 4.5 seconds left. Norman Powell then missed a 9-foot floater at the buzzer that would have put them ahead.
During clutch time, the Trail Blazers outscored the Nuggets 8-7. Lillard (No. 1 in clutch wins added, 2020-21) scored 4 of the Trail Blazers’ 8 on 2 for 5 shooting.
Facundo Campazzo scored 12 points (all 12 on 4 3-pointers).
For the Trail Blazers, Lillard scored 22 points (13 in the first quarter).
The Trail Blazers gave up 16 offensive rebounds, about 5 more than usual for the shots the Nuggets missed.
PS, 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 18% (3rd quarter, 5:09 left). Chances from the site’s game model (the per-play numbers the Clutch and Performances tabs use aren’t built for this game).
91 points from the field on 88 shots: 7.7 fewer than the league scores from the same zones.
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| Zone | FG | % | League |
|---|---|---|---|
| At the rim | 20-32 | 62.5% | 64% |
| In the paint | 1-6 | 16.7% | 43% |
| Mid-range | 5-11 | 45.5% | 42% |
| Corner 3 | 5-13 | 38.5% | 39% |
| Above-the-break 3 | 8-26 | 30.8% | 36% |
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jusuf Nurkić | 49 | 18 | 7-15 | −1 |
| Enes Freedom | 10 | 7 | 2-3 | +3 |
| Robert Covington | 4 | 2 | 1-2 | 0 |
| Everyone else | 8 | 2 | 1-1 | −1 |
The tracking credits him with 29 points on 71 possessions. He usually scores about 27 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norman Powell | 35 | 5 | 2-4 | −5 |
| Nassir Little | 7 | 4 | 2-2 | +2 |
| CJ McCollum | 6 | 4 | 2-3 | +2 |
| Robert Covington | 5 | 2 | 1-2 | 0 |
| Everyone else | 8 | 6 | 3-3 | +4 |
The tracking credits him with 21 points on 61 possessions. He usually scores about 18 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CJ McCollum | 35 | 2 | 1-3 | −6 |
| Damian Lillard | 8 | 3 | 1-3 | +1 |
| Norman Powell | 6 | 0 | 0-2 | −1 |
| Robert Covington | 5 | 2 | 1-1 | +1 |
| Everyone else | 7 | 3 | 1-3 | +1 |
The tracking credits him with 10 points on 61 possessions. He usually scores about 13 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.
POR win probability — AI model powered by play-by-play data
DEN
50/50
POR
Highest Leverage Moments
Dozier 1' Cutting Layup Shot (7 PTS) (Barton 4 AST)
Q4 1:53
27.0%
57→30
Lillard 15' Pullup Jump Shot (20 PTS) (Nurkic 6 AST)
Q4 1:37
27.0%
29→56
Dozier 24' 3PT Step Back Jump Shot (3 PTS) (Millsap 1 AST)
Q4 7:43
19.1%
62→43
Jokic Free Throw 2 of 2 (23 PTS)
Q4 1:15
19.0%
56→37
Lillard Driving Finger Roll Layup (22 PTS)
Q4 0:35
15.8%
14→30