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||**Q1**|**Q2**|**Q3**|**Q4**|**Final**||
|:—|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
**DEN**|**44**|**37**|**22**|**22**|**125**|[](/DEN)|
**PHX**|**26**|**25**|**25**|**24**|**100**|[](/PHX)|
**Team**|**FG**|**3PT**|**FT**|**OR**|**Reb**|**Ast**|**TO**|**Stl**|**Blk**|**PF**|**Pts**|
|:—|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|
[](/DEN)**DEN**|**44-82 (53.7)**|**8-22 (36.4)**|**29-31 (93.5)**|**7**|**41**|**24**|**10**|**10**|**3**|**22**|**125**|
[](/PHX)**PHX**|**38-79 (48.1)**|**11-28 (39.3)**|**13-20 (65.0)**|**2**|**29**|**19**|**14**|**3**|**5**|**22**|**100**|
**[](/DEN)DEN**|**Min**|**FG**|**3PT**|**FT**|**OR**|**Reb**|**Ast**|**TO**|**Stl**|**Blk**|**PF**|**Pts**|**+/-**|
|:—|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|
M. Porter Jr.^^SF|23:34|4-10 (40.0)|0-4 (0.0)|2-2 (100.0)|2|5|0|0|0|0|2|10|+11|
A. Gordon^^PF|34:32|3-7 (42.9)|0-0 (0.0)|2-4 (50.0)|1|6|3|2|0|0|3|8|+2|
N. Jokic^^C|37:33|13-18 (72.2)|0-1 (0.0)|6-6 (100.0)|3|10|12|2|3|1|4|32|+28|
K. Caldwell-Pope^^SG|35:37|7-11 (63.6)|2-5 (40.0)|5-5 (100.0)|0|5|3|0|2|1|3|21|+21|
J. Murray^^PG|34:44|7-16 (43.8)|4-7 (57.1)|8-8 (100.0)|0|4|4|3|4|0|1|26|+6|
B. Brown|30:31|6-13 (46.2)|1-4 (25.0)|0-0 (0.0)|1|5|1|2|1|1|4|13|+26|
C. Braun|14:26|1-2 (50.0)|0-0 (0.0)|2-2 (100.0)|0|2|0|0|0|0|1|4|+15|
J. Green|17:31|0-1 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|4-4 (100.0)|0|2|0|1|0|0|3|4|+13|
R. Jackson|2:46|1-1 (100.0)|1-1 (100.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|3|+3|
P. Watson|2:11|1-2 (50.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|1|0|0|0|0|1|2|0|
I. Smith|2:11|1-1 (100.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|2|0|
Z. Nnaji|2:11|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
V. Cancar|2:11|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|
**Totals**||**44-82 (53.7)**|**8-22 (36.4)**|**29-31 (93.5)**|**7**|**41**|**24**|**10**|**10**|**3**|**22**|**125**||
**DNP:** ***Thomas Bryant***, ***DeAndre Jordan***
**Inactive:**
**[](/PHX)PHX**|**Min**|**FG**|**3PT**|**FT**|**OR**|**Reb**|**Ast**|**TO**|**Stl**|**Blk**|**PF**|**Pts**|**+/-**|
|:—|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|—:|
L. Shamet^^SF|36:32|3-11 (27.3)|3-9 (33.3)|0-0 (0.0)|1|6|4|2|0|0|3|9|-1|
K. Durant^^PF|36:50|8-19 (42.1)|0-0 (0.0)|7-7 (100.0)|0|5|5|4|0|1|2|23|-13|
J. Landale^^C|30:51|5-6 (83.3)|0-0 (0.0)|3-4 (75.0)|0|5|0|1|0|1|4|13|+7|
D. Booker^^SG|35:32|4-13 (30.8)|1-3 (33.3)|3-4 (75.0)|0|1|8|2|1|1|4|12|-27|
C. Payne^^PG|41:33|12-16 (75.0)|7-9 (77.8)|0-3 (0.0)|0|6|2|4|0|1|3|31|-10|
B. Biyombo|7:40|1-1 (100.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0-2 (0.0)|1|2|0|0|0|1|2|2|-26|
T. Ross|8:45|0-5 (0.0)|0-4 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|1|0|1|0|0|1|0|-27|
T. Craig|13:00|2-3 (66.7)|0-1 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|0|0|0|1|0|2|4|-17|
T. Warren|15:34|0-1 (0.0)|0-1 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|2|0|0|0|0|1|0|-14|
D. Lee|11:36|3-4 (75.0)|0-1 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|1|0|0|1|0|0|6|+3|
I. Wainright|2:04|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0-0 (0.0)|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|
**Totals**||**38-79 (48.1)**|**11-28 (39.3)**|**13-20 (65.0)**|**2**|**29**|**19**|**14**|**3**|**5**|**22**|**100**||
**DNP:** ***Deandre Ayton***, ***Darius Bazley***, ***Josh Okogie***, ***Chris Paul***
**Inactive:**
||**PITP**|**2^^nd PTS**|**FB PTS**|**BIG LD**|**BEN PTS**|**TOT TOV**|**TOV PTS**||
|:—|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
**DEN**|62|18|19|32|28|11|21|[](/DEN)|
**PHX**|46|7|14|3|12|14|17|[](/PHX)|
**Lead Changes: 8** | **Times Tied: 3** | **Gametime: 2:20** | **Attendance: 17071**
*Officials: Marc Davis, Pat Fraher, Ben Taylor, Tyler Ford*
41 comments
Suns fan here, hope y’all win it all this year. Better you guys than Lakers and Warriors again.
Does Jokic invite the team over for his pool days? If he doesn’t he’s the most selfish teammate ever. /s
Odds Monty gets canned?
Nuggets going insane while Embiid disappeared at the end. I need this
Anyone have video of the last minute?
Suns fan here win it all please
I had a remindme bot reminder set to tonight in response to some dude talking shit about the nugs chances in the playoffs a month ago on /nba. [He deleted his account LOL](https://www.reddit.com/user/BenSimmonsTherapist)
> Devin Booker left the arena without speaking to the media.
☺
I am feeling myself. Right before the game I was nowhere near the anxiety of pre-game 5. it was just obvious the boys were gonna close it out tn. Not even a question. So weird when that happens. I was on a date on Tuesday too and called it the same way.
I don’t like hoping too far ahead, but hear me out everyone,
Victory parade will end at Water World.
EAT SHIT PHOENIX
I respect Bookers talent and what he did this series but it did put a smile on my face seeing how poorly he played tonight. Super unlikable guy.
Nuggs win
TotK downloading
This is a good day
Underrated aspect of winning tonight but now they don’t have to play until Tuesday for game 1 let’s get Mal Malone etc to heal up and rest up that gap is gonna help them and the team as a whole a lot
I just can’t believe I’m witnessing this team. Like, I’m going to tell people about Nikola Jokic when I’m an old fart. I’ll be able to tell them I got to see him play daily and even in person a handful of times. It’s just crazy man 😭
Congrats Nuggets fans! Loved watching Snake and Bitch-made Booker get humiliated at home in an elimination game again!
The Nuggets are such a likeable team; up North we’ be rooting for you to go all the way!
Jokic just had one of the most dominant series ever
Let’s recap this game.
Will it be LeBron or Steph that makes it to the Finals now that KD is out?
After that we’ll discuss why KD would have beat either of them.
-ESPN probably
This is what I hoped and needed. My biggest fear this year was Denver didn’t reach West Finals. I was really scared of Timberwolves and Suns. I don’t think they have worse players than Denver, Denver roster is just better designed and coached. Booth and Malone are both great in their job and TC deserves credit too.
Devin Booker, you are a first ballot hall of frontrunner.
Everyone is clowning on kd going 2-11 in the first half, and I’m over here like “y’all. Cmon. *He went 3-12*
Ima be riding off this win so much for 24 hours but not satisfied yet, I NEED 8 more wins
TWolves fan here. Happy for yall. Go win it all!
Campaign legacy game
confirmed: devin booker has eastern european blood
I was in the parking lot before work on the espn app and just kept seeing suns missing and nuggets making in that 2nd quarter. I had the biggest smile on my face fr.
Suns fan here, please rinse whoever makes it out of the other WC series. I will be rooting for y’all
I love this team. To the WCF boys!
I wonder if this will get rid of all the bandwagon and cocky fans from the sun’s and they’ll go back to being the team people semi root for. Probably not with Booker on the team but man it’s gotta hurt
I’m so mad that I couldn’t watch the first half but the second half was really good to, I liked a lot on how Malone reacted after the slow star on the third.
When I wake up the first thing to do is see this first quarter
Jokic playmaking is somehow underrated still. Insanity… instant offense
WOOOOOO PARTY TIME THIS FEELS SO GOOD
We won the KCP trade
Spending more time on suns reddit… Lol
I’m trying to fall asleep, but Ive been stewing about the defense that Mark Jackson gave for his MVP ballot. If we are to believe his excuse, then he just admitted to being, in my opinion, criminally negligent of his responsibility as a NBA award voter. These votes affect players salaries not to mention their legacies. The MVP is the crown jewel of the awards. It’s the biggest choice of the year, and he apparently did not take the time and effort to make sure he filled his ballot out correctly. He needs to be stripped of the MVP vote regardless of whether he was being truthful or not. When you force me to choose between ignorance and malice, I choose to cut ties with you.
Okay so now that the dust has settled a bit, 92.5 was saying game 1 would be Sunday if Lakers win but Sportscenter told Jamal game 1 wouldn’t be till Tuesday at earliest
nom nom nom nom nom nom…
Who wants to celebrate by riding lime scooters in the rain?
Fire Malone!!!
I don’t like these Suns fans coming in here with their well wishes, I have so much animosity towards that fanbase, I’m gonna hate every single one of them for a decade, at least.