Denver – – Michael Porter Jr. scored a 36 -point summit, Nikola Jokic added 27 factors, 14 rebounds and 10 assists, and the Denver Nuggets overcome a summit in profession of 41 factors from Trey Murphy III to defeat the brand new -Orleans Pélicans 125 125 -113 Monday night.
Jamal Murray collected 20 factors and eight assists whereas Julian Strawther scored 15 factors on the bench for Denver. At his first begin to the season, Zeke Nnaji, filling the wounded Aaron Gordon, collected 12 factors of the season.
The triple-double was the perfect twenty third in Jokic season and the ninth in his final 11 video games.
Murphy scored 39 of the primary 85 factors of New Orleans, serving to the Pélicans, who dragged as much as 20 factors within the second interval, to enter the eight between the fourth quarter. Murphy made 13 of his 21 photographs, together with eight of his 12 3, whereas the remainder of his staff pulled solely 37.3% of the land.
CJ McCollum scored 30 factors and Zion Williamson added 14 for the Pélicans.
Nuggets: Denver continued his rebound from a sequence of three consecutive defeats, profitable his third consecutive victory and his eleventh victory in his final 15 video games to remain in fourth place within the West Convention.
Pélicans: After a sequence of four-game sport victories, a summit of the season supplied some indicators of hope, New Orleans skilled its sixth consecutive defeat in an harm season.
After a Murphy 3 equalized the match at 21 on the first quarter, the Nuggets made a 14-2 race and led for the remainder of the night time, the Pélicans by no means approaching six.
Together with his profession efficiency on Monday, Murphy collected a median of 37.7 factors in his final three video games whereas pulling 70.7% within the subject and 63.6% out of three.
Nuggets and Pelicans may have a revenge match on Wednesday in Denver.
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