Jamal Murray scored a season-high 34 points, Nikola Jokic recorded his 11th triple-double of the season and the Denver Nuggets beat the Los Angeles Lakers 122-109 on Monday night in a game where LeBron James sat out due to a sore left ankle.
Jokic finished with 14 points — on 5 of 5 shooting — grabbed 11 rebounds and dished out 16 assists to help the Nuggets win their 11th straight home game. It's their longest home streak since capturing 12 in a row in 2018."We did what we were supposed to do," Nuggets coach Michael Malone said."The guys came to work with a work mindset. Everybody stepped up and their job."
James was ruled out hours before tipoff, joining injured forward Anthony Davis on the bench. Patrick Beverley didn't play after halftime due to a hip injury."Kudos our guys — they kept fighting and just had a couple bad turnovers, couple balls that didn't go our way, couple shots didn't go down," Lakers coach Darvin Ham said."The group that was out there, they were competitive, then gave it their all until we couldn't give anymore.
Murray's scoring spree was another big step as the point guard rounds back into form from a torn ACL that caused him to miss all of last season. "You have to fight human nature when a team is out LeBron ... and all of those guys," Malone said."You can't relax."Lakers: G Kendrick Nunn had 15 points. ... G Dennis Schroder was called for a technical in the third quarter.
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