![]() It was his sixth foul-out of the season, the second against the Nuggets. The Clippers' Patrick Beverley fouled out with 10:16 remaining, after scoring only two points. The Nuggets are 5-0 this season when facing elimination. Nuggets: Denver's lead reached 16 in the final moments - a 35-point turnaround from early in the third. Ivica Zubac had 12 rebounds and George was 11 for 11 from the foul line. Now, it's onto Game 7.Ĭlippers: Leonard also had eight rebounds and five assists. ![]() Denver had eight different players score in that stretch, Murray and Morris scoring seven apiece, and the big deficit became an 85-81 lead with 10:16 left. Over the next 10 minutes, the Nuggets outscored the Clippers 30-8. That's apparently when the Nuggets decided it was time to get going. George hit a 3-pointer shortly after halftime for a 19-point lead and Leonard made a pair of free throws with 8:27 left in the third quarter to put the Clippers up 73-55. They saved themselves again in Game 5 of this series, getting down by 16 before coming back to save the season again. They saved their season in Game 5 of the opening round by rallying from 15 points down in the third quarter against Utah to set the tone for a rally from a 3-1 series deficit. Of course, the Nuggets flourish when they're in trouble. The Nuggets were down 16 at the half - the fourth time out of six games in the series when they trailed by at least that many in a game - and eventually fell behind by as many as 19 in the third quarter. Paul George had 33 points, Kawhi Leonard scored 25 and Lou Williams had 14 for the Clippers, who are now 0-7 in games where they could clinch a trip to the conference finals. Jamal Murray scored 21 for Denver, which got 16 from Gary Harris, 13 from Michael Porter Jr. The Nuggets will try to become the first team in NBA history to rally from a pair of 3-1 deficits in the same postseason, after doing so against Utah in the West first round. Nikola Jokic had 34 points, 14 rebounds and seven assists, and the Nuggets topped the Clippers 111-98 on Sunday to even their West semifinal series at three games apiece. The never-say-die Nuggets pulled off another season-saving comeback - and, after rallying from 19 points down with 22 minutes remaining, they'll see the Los Angeles Clippers in Game 7 on Tuesday night for a berth in the Western Conference finals. Flights home from the NBA's bubble are planned whenever a team is on the cusp of elimination, just in case they're needed.ĭenver is in no hurry to board that plane. Nuggets do it again, taking Clippers to Game 7 in West ![]() ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, Lake Buena Vista ![]()
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