Jamal Murray matched his career high of 10 3-pointers and scored 37 points to lead the Denver Nuggets to a 130-117 victory over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday night in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n
Cameron Johnson had 19 points, nine rebounds and six assists and Christian Braun scored 18 points for the Nuggets (49-28), who won their seventh consecutive contest.<\/p>\n
Denver star Nikola Jokic recorded 15 points, 17 rebounds and 12 assists for his 196th career triple-double. He stands 13 behind all-time leader Russell Westbrook.<\/p>\n
Jonas Valanciunas added 13 points and Bruce Brown scored 11 for the Nuggets, who swept the four-game season series and defeated the Jazz for the 10th straight time.<\/p>\n
Brice Sensabaugh made six 3-pointers and scored 28 points and Kyle Filipowski added 25 points and 12 rebounds for Utah (21-56), which lost its seventh straight game and 19th of its last 22.<\/p>\n
Kennedy Chandler scored 16 points and fellow reserve John Konchar had 12 for the Jazz. Ace Bailey also scored 12 points for Utah but made just 5 of 17 shots.<\/p>\n
Denver shot 48.4% from the field, including 16 of 39 from 3-point range, and held a 53-44 rebounding edge.<\/p>\n
Utah trailed by 18 in the second quarter but moved within 99-95 on two free throws by Chandler with 10:38 left in the game.<\/p>\n
The Nuggets answered with a 17-4 run. Murray buried his eighth 3-pointer to make it an 11-point margin before Brown followed with a layup and<\/p>\n
Valanciunas scored four straight points to end it and make it 116-99 with 6:02 to play.<\/p>\n
Utah ripped off nine straight points to move within eight but Denver responded with 10 in a row to seal it. Murray ended the spurt with two treys in a span of 38 seconds to give the Nuggets a 126-108 advantage with 2:01 remaining.<\/p>\n
The Jazz shot 46.3% from the field and were 12 of 37 from long distance.<\/p>\n
Murray made three straight 3-pointers to start the game and Johnson followed with a fourth as Denver scored the first 12 points.<\/p>\n
Murray drilled a halfcourt shot to end the first quarter for his fifth trey as the Nuggets led 39-28.<\/p>\n
Murray knocked down another 3-pointer to give Denver its biggest lead at 51-33 with 7:50 to go in the second quarter.<\/p>\n
The Nuggets led 68-54 at halftime behind 20 points from Murray. Filipowski had 19 points and Sensabaugh scored 18 in the half for Utah.<\/p>\n
Denver led 97-90 entering the final quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamal Murray matched his career high of 10 3-pointers and scored 37 points to lead the Denver Nuggets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3781],"tags":[7,301,187,3943,6,302],"class_list":{"0":"post-693234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-denver-nuggets","11":"tag-denvernuggets","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nuggets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116333186740508380","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}