Oklahoma City – Nikola Jokic collected 42 points and 22 rebounds, and Aaron Gordon struck a 3 -point in the last seconds to give the Denver Nuggets an astonishing 121-119 return victory on the Oklahoma City series series of seeded on Monday evening in the first match of their series Western conference semifinal.
Oklahoma City, out of dead times, missed an uprising of despair as the weather expired.
Russell Westbrook from Denver, who began his career with The Thunder, helped Gordon’s winning shooting. It was Westbrook’s first eliminatory match in Oklahoma City as an opposing player.
Gordon finished with 22 points and 14 rebounds. It was his second winner of these playoffs, the other coming to a dunk beating the buzzer in match 4 of the first round series of Denver against the clippers of the.
Jamal Murray added 21 points for the fourth seed nuggets, who stole the opening after closing a series of seven games against the Clippers on Saturday. Murray and Jokic scored or helped 89 of the 121 points of the Nuggets (74%).
Denver’s opportunity came after Chet Holmgren from Oklahoma City missed two frank throws with the Thunder leading by one point.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander collected 33 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists for the Thunder, who had not played for more than a week after swepting out the Memphis grizzles in the first round. Alex Caruso added 20 points, 6 assists and 5 interceptions.
Jokic won three faults during a two-minute section in the third quarter after committing only one fault in the first half. He stayed in the match with the Thunder leading 73-64.
The Nuggets committed the gap at 90-85 at the end of the third quarter.
With the Thunder leading 104-95 and a little less than seven minutes, Jokic has flowed read sleeps in the head on a trip, and the game was examined. The game was deemed a blatant fault 1 on Jokic – its fifth fault – and Dort made two free throws.
Denver has passed the rest of the game to fill the gap.
The ESPN research and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
