The Los Angeles Lakers are now playing for their playoff lives. Even though they won’t be facing elimination in Game 3 of their first-round series against the Denver Nuggets on Thursday, it sure feels like it.
The Los Angeles Lakers, on Tuesday night, looked poised to snap their nine-game losing skid against the Denver Nuggets dating back to last year’s Western Conference Finals. LeBron James and Anthony Davis played very well,
Instead, the Lakers collapsed, the Nuggets stormed back into the game, and Jamal Murray ended it with a dagger for the ages. The Nuggets beat the Lakers, 101-99, to take a 2-0 lead over Los Angeles in the first round series.
Nikola Jokic was brilliant, and finished his night with 27 points, 20 rebounds, ten assists and two steals while shooting 9/16 from the field and 2/4 from the three-point range in