Jamal Murray scored a season-high 32 points to go along with nine assists and connected with Nikola Jokic for the go-ahead basket with 2:28 remaining as the Denver Nuggets continued their improved play in road games with a 122-117 victory over the slumping Brooklyn Nets on Friday night.

Jokic finished with 31 points, 11 rebounds, and seven assists to record his 25th double-double of the year. With 18 more points from Aaron Gordon and 15 from Michael Porter Jr., the Nuggets triumphed for the sixth time in seven games and their fourth consecutive victory on the road.

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Murray finished the game with 10 points, three assists, and his first 30-point performance of the year. His assists totaled four in the final two minutes and twenty-eight seconds, including the pass to Jokic for an unrebuffed layup that put the Nuggets ahead 106-105.

Murray also found Kentavious-Caldwell Pope for an open 3-pointer in front of Brooklyn’s bench for a 109-105 lead with 1:56 left and then answered Spencer Dinwiddie’s corner 3 with an 18-footer to put the Nuggets ahead 111-108 with 80 seconds left.

After Murray hit Peyton Watson with a lob that resulted in a dunk for a 115-110 lead with 25.5 seconds left, the Nuggets sweated out the final seconds. A four-point play by Cam Thomas got Brooklyn within 115-114 with 19.4 seconds left.

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Murray also grabbed five rebounds, including the board of his missed free throw with 18.4 seconds. After being fouled by Thomas, Murray sank two free throws for a 118-114 lead with 15.8 seconds left.

With 5.9 seconds left, Cameron Johnson went to the line and made the first free throw but the Nets could not get the rebound when he missed the second intentionally and Gordon and Jokic hit free throws in the final four seconds to ice it.

Thomas led seven players in double figures with 23 points but the Nets lost their season-high fifth straight. Johnson added 17 while Mikal Bridges and Dorian Finney-Smith contributed 14 apiece as the Nets shot 48.3 percent.

Royce O’Neale and Day’Ron Sharpe chipped in 13 apiece while Nic Claxton contributed 10 points and 16 rebounds for the Nets.

Brooklyn trailed by 11 before outscoring Denver 21-10 over the final 6:29 for a 28-28 deadlock after the opening period. After taking a seven-point lead early in the second, the Nets held a 60-58 lead by halftime.

A 3-pointer and two free throws by Murray gave Denver an 88-81 lead with 2 1/2 minutes left but the Nuggets faltered when Jokic rested and settled for an 88-86 lead into the fourth quarter.

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“The energy we need to start the game right,” Jokic said when asked why Denver has won four straight on the road.

“I think we had a 14-7 run (to start the game) and we kind of slowed down a little bit. But (we need to) be the aggressor. We need the one to be the one (controlling) the game.”