Englo, California (AP)-James Harden won 28 points and eight passes in a prominent prominent performance, Kaohi Leonard added 27 points, and Los Angeles Clepers forced the seventh match in a series of playing match in the first round.
Norman Powell scored 24 points for Cleibers, who recovered from successive losses with a impressive effort in New Intuit Dome. Los Angeles took control of the second half while playing a stubborn defense of Nicolas Gokic, who scored 20 points out of 25 points in the first half.
Game 7 is Saturday in Denver.
Jamal Murray scored 21 points for Nuggets, who lost a potential match for the series for the third time in four attempts during the past two seasons since the 2023 championship. Denver also dawn a series 3-2 on Minnesota in the second round last season.
Nuggets has not won the game 7 since 2020, when Clippers overthrew the semi -finals of the Florida bubble.
Cleibers was pushed to the 35 -year -old Harden winning, who played with force and craftsmanship after receiving criticism of the 5th game in the game 5. Leonard as well, with the addition of the American Professional League champion twice 10 rebounds and five passes on a firm picnic.
Ivica Zubac and Nicolas Batum cooperated in an amazing defensive effort on Jokic who cannot be guarded. MVP was erected three times without goals for 11 minutes in the third quarter and only 2 went for 9 in the second half.
Los Angeles led 15 with less than six minutes to play, but Denver turned 11-2 to reduce the offering of Clippers to 107-101 before he was buried Powell 3 indicator with the left 1:47.
Powell’s clutch bucket was the only goal of Los Angeles in the final range 5:57, but the clips are suspended by defense. Russell Westprick missed throwing the ball under pressure and other ball was banned on consecutive property in the last minutes, and Zubac has banned an attempt to throw ash by Jokic with 24 seconds.
After falling into a 2-1 hole and then blowing at 22 points in the fourth quarter of match 4, Nagtz still won in Intuit Dome five days ago over Dunk Aaron Gordon in the amazing in The Buzzer. Denver rode this momentum to win the 5th game in the game 5 with 43 points from Murray.
After folding Clippers to the bottom on Tuesday, coach Tyronn Lue took the rare step of logging in with his players on the day of their vacation, saying that he “took a lot of temperatures” to make sure they are mentally ready to fight for their separate lives.
The Clippers team, which stormed the qualifiers with eight consecutive victories and 18 out of 21 Louis calls in the game 6.
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