On a night when Nikola Jokic, Aaron Gordon and Jamal Murray sat, the Denver Nuggets scored their most impressive win of the season to date.

Reggie Jackson scored 35 points, DeAndre Jordan had 21 points and 13 rebounds, and the Nuggets rallied in the fourth quarter to beat the Los Angeles Clippers 113-104 on Monday night.

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The Nuggets were behind by 11 points at the beginning of the fourth quarter when former Clippers Jackson and Jordan combined for 20 points.

With three-pointers to start and finish a 22-6 run, Jackson gave the Nuggets a 99-94 lead. He fed Jordan for two devastating dunks in between. Late in the game, the Clippers were so anxious to obtain defensive stops that they purposefully fouled Jordan, a player with a dismal free-throw shooting record.

The Nuggets had defeated the Clippers for the ninth time in a row. It was even sweeter because they succeeded while starting players Jokic, Murray, and Gordon were sidelined.

Jokic sat out the second game of a back-to-back because of low back pain. Murray has yet to return from a right hamstring strain and Gordon has a right heel strain.

Kawhi Leonard led the Clippers with 31 points and Ivica Zubac had 23 points and 14 rebounds. Paul George picked up his fourth and fifth fouls early in the fourth. He finished with six points on 2-of-13 shooting.

The Clippers were limited to four field goals in the fourth, when they went 8 of 12 from the free throw line. Russell Westbrook airballed a free throw with the Clippers trailing 102-98. James Harden had two turnovers in the final minutes and George shot an airball in the closing seconds.

The Clippers outscored Denver 32-19 in the third. Tied 72-all, Zubac scored six in a row to spark a 17-5 run that was capped by Westbrook’s four straight points and sent the Clippers into the fourth leading 88-77.

The Clippers’ reserves gave them an 11-point lead to open the second. Then Jackson took over, scoring 14 points in the quarter, including a free throw that sent the Nuggets into halftime leading 58-56.

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Jackson and Jordan teamed for several scores in the game, reminding the home crowd of days gone by. Jordan converted Jackson’s alley-oop pass into a dunk and he scored on a reverse dunk off a feed from Jackson in the first half.

The Clippers’ Norman Powell hit a free throw in the second quarter that gave him 6,000 career points.