Monday night, the Denver Nuggets beat the Dallas Mavericks 130–104 at home. Aaron Gordon scored 21 points, which tied his season high, and Jamal Murray scored 22.
What happened in the game between the Mavericks and the Nuggets? Dallas lost to Denver 130–104.
Reggie Jackson scored 18 points, Zeke Nnaji scored 14, and Julian Strawther scored 12.
In the end, Nikola Jokic scored eight points on three-of-eight shooting, grabbed nine rebounds, and gave out seven assists. This is the third time this season that he has not scored at least 10 points. In the other two games where he did not score at least 10 points, he was thrown out before halftime.
Murray scores 22 points to help the Nuggets beat Doncic and the Mavericks and win 130–104. Report from Newsday
Luka Doncic scored 28 of his 38 points in the first half. He also grabbed 11 rebounds and dished out 8 assists. Doncic is still having a great December. He is scoring 36.6 points, 11.6 assists, and 9.3 rebounds per game.
They got 11 more points from Dante Exum.
The Dallas Mavericks lost on the road to the Denver Nuggets, even though Luka Doncic was out with an injury. News, Analysis, and More About the Dallas Mavericks
Djokovic scored six points in the first quarter but all of his shots in the second quarter went in. He scored 22 points by making 8 of 9 shots from the field and 6 of 7 from beyond the arc.
Even though Dallas opened the quarter with a 9-2 run to get within 30–29, the Nuggets were able to win it. In the quarter, nine of the ten Denver players who played scored. Jokic was the only one who did not score because he did not take a shot or a free throw. At halfway, Denver still had a 68-59 lead.
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Murray scored the first seven points for Denver in the third quarter, which made the score 75–63. Two free throws by Doncic and a layup by Grant Williams cut the Mavericks’ deficit to 77-70, but Murray drained a trey to spark a run that got the Nuggets’ lead back to 12 with 5:34 remaining until the fourth.
After that, the Nuggets took advantage of the Mavericks’ nearly four-minute stretch without scoring. Late in the third quarter, Denver led 94-71 thanks to baskets from Michael Porter Jr. off an offensive rebound, a layup by Christian Braun, and three-pointers from Gordon and Peyton Watson.
Jackson’s fadeaway shot gave the Nuggets a 98–80 lead before the fourth quarter.
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With a layup to start the last 12 minutes, Strawther made a pull-up 3-pointer, and Watson added another triple to start a 13-4 run that put the game out of reach in the opening minutes of the fourth quarter.