Bojan Bogdanovic scored a season-high 48 points (24 on 8 3-pointers), and the Utah Jazz beat the Denver Nuggets 127-120 for their fourth straight win.
Georges Niang’s 8-foot floater put the Jazz ahead for good with 11:22 left in the fourth quarter.
The Nuggets got within 103-101 on Michael Porter Jr.’s 2 free throws with 10:17 to play, but Bogdanovic answered with a corner 3-pointer, and the Nuggets got no closer than 106-103.
During clutch time, the Jazz outscored the Nuggets 16-1. Jordan Clarkson scored 7 of the Jazz’s 16 on 2 for 2 shooting and 1 for 2 at the line. Late in the fourth quarter, Clarkson had 2 steals in 22 seconds, the first leading to Rudy Gobert’s dunk and the second to Bogdanovic’s corner 3-pointer.
Clarkson had 21 points and 8 assists but shot 6 for 20 off the bench.
For the Nuggets, Porter scored 31 points, and Facundo Campazzo went 1 for 7 from 3. Nikola Jokić had 24 points, 9 rebounds and 13 assists on 9 for 11 shooting.
The Nuggets committed 17 turnovers to the Jazz’s 12. The Jazz made 21 3-pointers, 8 of them by Bogdanovic and 6 by Clarkson. The Nuggets’ starters outscored the Jazz 53-42 in 18 minutes together.