Nikola Jokic compiled 24 points, 15 rebounds and nine assists as the visiting Denver Nuggets moved one win away from the Western Conference semifinals with a 112-105 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday.
LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers will take the court against the Denver Nuggets at 8:30 PM ET on Saturday in the 2024 NBA Playoffs.James is tops on the Lakers with 25.7 points per contest
The NBA playoffs are underway, and the reigning champion Nuggets are the closest team to the second round. Denver is up 3-0 in its first-round series against the Lakers, beating L.A. for the 11th straight time on Thursday night to put LeBron James and Anthony Davis on the brink of elimination.
They showered Darvin Ham with boos as the coach was introduced before opening tip. They bombarded him with more pointed chants before time expired in an otherwise lifeless building. “Fire Darvin!” But is this Ham’s fault?
The Los Angeles Lakers knew exactly what openings the Denver Nuggets would have to provide in order for them to register a win in this first-round series, and could’ve scripted it perfectly. Force the turnovers,
Anthony Davis and LeBron James fill the stat sheet, but D'Angelo Russell goes scoreless and Denver is the better second-half team again, beating the Lakers for the 11th consecutive time, 112-105. Game 4 is Saturday night.
The Denver Nuggets beat the Los Angeles Lakers 112-105 in Game 3 of their Western Conference first-round playoff series at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Thursday night, April 25, 2024. Denver leads the series 3-0.
Aaron Gordon had 29 points and 15 rebounds, Nikola Jokic added 24 points, 15 rebounds and nine assists, and the Denver Nuggets moved to the brink of the second round with a 112-105 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers.
It’s great to have a lead, but you have to continue to do what got you the lead in the first place,” Coach Darvin Ham says of the pace of play dropping in the second half of Games 1 and 2 –
Quick hits from the Nuggets’ Game 3 victory over the Lakers on Thursday night at Crypto.com Arena in the Western Conference playoffs. 1. Nuggets just stuck a dagger in the LeBron-Anthony Davis Era. Maybe no matchup in this series underscores the differences between the defending NBA champs and the Lakers right now than that of Aaron Gordon and LeBron James.
The Lakers have now lost nine straight games to the Nuggets. The Lakers and 76ers had complaints about officiating following Game 2 losses, but there were plenty of other reasons both teams lost Monday night.
It is rather difficult for a team to maintain its poise when it blows its opportunity to claim a very winnable game, and on a gut-wrenching buzzer-beater loss, no less. On Thursday night, the Los Angeles Lakers’ resilience was put to the test,
LOS ANGELES — As Nuggets and Lakers alike filtered back onto the floor and started to get shots up, the tension in the sea-level air wasn’t a feeling of unfinished business, but rather un-started. The Lakers led 53-49,
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Lakers are now on the brink of elimination after dropping Game 3 to the Denver Nuggets 112-105. The Lakers had a 10-point lead at the end of the first quarter before having the lead get trimmed to four at the end of the half.
The Lakers’ Wednesday morning film session “stung” according to star forward LeBron James. Not only because the Lakers had to relive and rewatch themselves blow a 20-point third-quarter lead before Jamal Murray hit a game-winning shot at the final buzzer to seal the Nuggets’ 101-99 victory in Game 2 of their first-round playoff series on Monday night in Denver.
If the annual playoff referendum on Nikola Jokic’s defense has already commenced, Jokic himself might have put an amusing stop to it during the first round. As self-deprecating as ever, he didn’t mince words when asked how he can guard Lakers center Anthony Davis better after a barrage of buckets forced Michael Malone to cross-match,
Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets got one step closer to advancing in the NBA playoffs on Thursday night as they took down the Los Angeles Lakers on the road in game three. The Lakers have been competitive in every game,
The Lakers led at halfitme for a third straight game but were unable to hold off Nikola Jokic and the rest of the defending champions in the second half. Denver now just needs a victory in Saturday night's Game 4 to sweep the Lakers out of the playoffs for a second straight year.
Michael Malone’s individual film reviews this week keep encountering a distraction at the end. His eyes wander from what’s transpiring on the court and focus instead on his team’s sideline, where the Nuggets are about to erupt into a celebration they’ll someday tell their grandchildren about.
At 39-years-old, LeBron James is running out of time to earn a fifth NBA Championship. That goal seems further away after yet another loss to the Denver
Nikola Jokic met with the media after Thursday's game. On Thursday evening, the Denver Nuggets beat the Los Angeles Lakers (in California) by a score of 112-105. The Nuggets now have a 3-0 lead in the series,
Nuggets deflate Lakers with impressive team effort. The Lakers held a double-dight lead for the 3rd consecutive game only to have the battle-tested Nuggets storm back to win.