Milwaukee – – Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 28 factors, dropped a summit of 19 rebounds and picked up seven assists whereas the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Denver Nuggets 121-112 Thursday night.
The MVP twice helped Milwaukee to compensate for one more good efficiency by Nikola Jokic, who pulled 13 out of 16 and picked up 32 factors, 14 rebounds and 10 assists. Jokichas 27 triple-double within the 53 video games that the triple MVP has performed this season.
It was the primary confrontation of the season between these two multiple-mvp winners. The Bucks play in Denver on March 26.
Brook Lopez added 22 factors, Damian Lillard 19, Kyle Kuzma 16 and Gary Trent Jr. 15 for the Bucks, who received 5 of their final six.
Jamal Murray scored 20 factors for Nuggets.
Nuggets: Denver adopted a sequence of 9 consecutive victories by abandoning two of the three. After dragging by 12 with 4 minutes to do, the nuggets lowered the margin at 5 with two minutes to play however couldn’t get nearer.
Bucks: Milwaukee continues to observe the workload of Antetokounmpo, which missed six consecutive video games simply earlier than the celebs break whereas treating a tense left calf. The bucks nonetheless received it partly as a result of they’ve forward of Denver within the first 5 minutes of the fourth quarter whereas theuntokounmpo was on the bench. AJ Inexperienced made a number of massive factors at 3 factors throughout this part.
Antetokounmpo solely made his eighth 3-point basket of the season to offer Milwaukee an advance of 67-66 with a bit of greater than seven minutes within the third quarter. He obtained a dunk offshore that the prince of Taurean flies 35 seconds later to deal with a 12-4 race which made the {dollars} advance for good.
The Bucks capitalized on a terrific disparity on the road of fault. Milwaukee had 23 out of 28 and Denver 9 out of 11.
Friday, the Nuggets play Detroit. The Bucks go to Dallas on Saturday.
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