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THE DENVER NUGGETS
The Celtics are the strong favorite to win the NBA title. The Nuggets are the reigning champs, and on Thursday night they showed again they’re not going to be giving the crown up willingly. Denver topped Boston, 115-109, in a potential NBA Finals preview that lived up to that billing.
On a night where both teams were ice-cold from deep, it was Nikola Jokic (32 points, 12 rebounds, 11 assists) taking over late with a dizzying display of scoring, passing and general ridiculousness. Denver’s final two buckets were Jokic twirling for a layup over Kristaps Porzingis and then Jokic throwing an alley-oop to Aaron Gordon, whose thunderous dunks could have challenged anything we saw in the dunk contest. It’s those late-game moments that show Jokic’s greatest value, Brad Botkin writes.
Botkin: “This is the inevitability of Jokic. When it’s time for a game to swing, it’s going his way.”
The Celtics, meanwhile, fought hard despite a quiet Jayson Tatum…
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Author : Zachary Pereles
Publish date : 2024-03-08 14:21:11
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