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| Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Nuggets | 28 | 37 | 29 | 21 | 115 |
 Spurs | 28 | 34 | 27 | 20 | 109 |
DENTeam statsSAS| Team | FG | 3PT | FT | REB | AST | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEN | 47-8853.4% | 8-2433.3% | 13-2065.0% | 40 | 33 | 20 |
| SAS | 43-8252.4% | 12-3336.4% | 11-1861.1% | 38 | 31 | 24 |
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Denver Nuggets115| 34 | 26 | 11-20 | 0-1 | 4-5 | +15 | +7.0 | ||||||||
| 32 | 19 | 9-17 | 0-3 | 1-3 | 0 | +10 | −2.4 | |||||||
| 32 | 11 | 5-8 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | +17 | +0.5 | ||||||
| 30 | 24 | 9-16 | 4-8 | 0 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | +3 | +5.4 | |||||
| 30 | 9 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0 | 3-5 | +10 | +6.7 | |||||||
| Bench | ||||||||||||||
| 25 | 2 | 1-5 | 0-1 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | −6 | −5.5 | ||||||
| 23 | 14 | 5-10 | 3-5 | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | −9 | −4.5 | ||||||
| 18 | 6 | 3-5 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0 | −4 | −2.0 | |||||||
| 14 | 4 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | −9 | +0.2 | ||||||
| 3 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | −1.0 | |||
| Team | 115 | 47-8853.4% | 8-2433.3% | 40 | 33 | 20 | 14 | 13-2065.0% | 8 | 14 | 7 | |||
Bench 26 points on 10 for 22 shooting
Did not play: Davon Reed and Vlatko Čančar (coach’s decision).
San Antonio Spurs109| 36 | 30 | 12-20 | 5-11 | 1-2 | 0 | −17 | +2.3 | |||||||
| 34 | 17 | 6-17 | 3-8 | 0 | 2-3 | 0 | 0 | −4 | −3.7 | |||||
| 33 | 20, Career high (his best before, 19) | 9-13 | 1-2 | 1-1 | 0 | −6 | +7.5 | |||||||
| 32 | 4 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0 | −12 | +2.1 | |||||||
| 28 | 2 | 1-4 | 0-2 | 0 | 0-0 | −3 | −1.9 | |||||||
| Bench | ||||||||||||||
| 28 | 22 | 8-11 | 2-5 | 4-5 | 0 | +10 | +1.1 | |||||||
| 19 | 9 | 3-7 | 1-4 | 0 | 2-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | −1.8 | ||||
| 16 | 3 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 1-2 | +6 | +0.4 | ||||||||
| 12 | 2 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | +3 | −3.3 | ||||||
| 2 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −6 | −0.9 | ||
| Team | 109 | 43-8252.4% | 12-3336.4% | 38 | 31 | 24 | 17 | 11-1861.1% | 10 | 14 | 5 | |||
Bench 36 points on 13 for 25 shooting
Did not play: Gorgui Dieng, Malaki Branham and Jordan Hall (coach’s decision).
Nuggets115Spurs109ClickTap 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.
Nikola Jokić had 26 points (20 in the paint) and 10 assists, and the Denver Nuggets beat the San Antonio Spurs 115-109.
Jokić’s dunk answered Keldon Johnson’s cutting layup and put the Nuggets back ahead for good with 3:48 left in the fourth quarter.
The Spurs got within 111-109 on Josh Richardson’s 14-foot pull-up jumper with 1:36 to play, but Jokić answered with a 17-foot jumper, and the Spurs got no closer.
Aaron Gordon’s dunk with 29.9 seconds left made it 115-109 and put it away.
During clutch time, the Nuggets outscored the Spurs 11-4. Jokić scored 4 of the Nuggets’ 11 on 2 for 6 shooting.
Michael Porter Jr. scored 24 points (12 on 4 3-pointers), and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope added 11 points and 3 steals. Jokić and Jamal Murray set each other up for 7 baskets and 14 points.
For the Spurs, Johnson scored 30 points on 12 for 20 shooting, and Richardson added 22 points on 8 for 11 shooting off the bench. Tre Jones had a career-high 20 points, 9 assists and 3 steals on 9 for 13 shooting. The Spurs had 3 20-point scorers.
The Spurs turned it over 24 times, about 8 more than usual for this many possessions. The Nuggets’ starters outscored the Spurs 50-38 in 17 minutes together.
Denver NuggetsSan Antonio SpursPS, 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. Chances from the site’s game model (the per-play numbers the Clutch and Performances tabs use aren’t built for this game).
102 points from the field on 88 shots: 6.1 more than the league scores from the same zones.
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| Zone | FG | % | League |
|---|---|---|---|
| At the rim | 21-31 | 67.7% | 67% |
| In the paint | 10-20 | 50.0% | 44% |
| Mid-range | 8-13 | 61.5% | 42% |
| Corner 3 | 1-4 | 25.0% | 39% |
| Above-the-break 3 | 7-20 | 35.0% | 35% |
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jakob Poeltl | 50 | 16 | 7-13 | 0 |
| Keldon Johnson | 7 | 2 | 1-3 | 0 |
| Josh Richardson | 4 | 6 | 3-4 | +5 |
| Charles Bassey | 4 | 0 | 0-0 | −1 |
| Everyone else | 9 | 2 | 1-6 | −1 |
The tracking credits him with 26 points on 74 possessions. He usually scores about 23 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keldon Johnson | 21 | 13 | 5-5 | +7 |
| Devin Vassell | 18 | 0 | 0-1 | −5 |
| Jeremy Sochan | 9 | 5 | 2-3 | +3 |
| Doug McDermott | 5 | 0 | 0-1 | −1 |
| Everyone else | 13 | 6 | 2-7 | +2 |
The tracking credits him with 24 points on 66 possessions. He usually scores about 18 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tre Jones | 16 | 4 | 2-5 | −1 |
| Jeremy Sochan | 16 | 6 | 3-3 | +1 |
| Josh Richardson | 11 | 2 | 1-1 | −1 |
| Keldon Johnson | 7 | 0 | 0-2 | −2 |
| Everyone else | 17 | 9 | 4-8 | +4 |
The tracking credits him with 21 points on 67 possessions. He usually scores about 19 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.
SAS win probability — AI model powered by play-by-play data
DEN
50/50
SAS
Highest Leverage Moments
Caldwell-Pope 3PT Jump Shot (11 PTS) (Brown 3 AST)
Q4 3:12
25.4%
46→21
Jokic 17' Jump Shot (26 PTS)
Q4 0:60
19.2%
29→10
Richardson 14' Pullup Jump Shot (22 PTS) (Vassell 4 AST)
Q4 1:36
14.8%
15→29
Jones 1' Running Layup (20 PTS)
Q4 6:12
14.7%
43→58
Murray 1' Layup (17 PTS)
Q4 5:51
14.7%
58→43
