Russell Westbrook’s vintage performance sparks Nuggets’ win over Clippers

Murray beauty It broke out for 43 points and Russell Westprick He was cut on 21 on his return from a foot injury, which sparked Nuggets‘131-115 victory over No clips On Tuesday night, which gave Denver 3-2 in the seven best series.

Nuggets also got 23 Game 4 Hero Harun Gordon and Nicolas Gokic 21st Carch Playoff Triple-Double (18 points, 10 rebound balls, 12 decisive passes).

Once again, Denver occupied ahead of 22 points early in the fourth quarter to watch The Clippers in an angry race, as they did in Game 4 when they just wiped their inability to lose 101-99 The American Professional League Qualifiers history.

This time, Cleibers went on a half-4 run to reduce their deficits to one numbers in 116-107, but nuggets have bombed through the 11-0 round with Murray Six and Gordon five to compel the Cleibers coach on Tiron Lowe to empty his seat.

Game 6 is Thursday night in The Intuit Dome, and another victory from Denver has created a series of second round against Oklahoma City, ranked.

Ivaca Zubac led Cleibers with 27 points, Kohi Leonard He added 20 and Bogdan Bogdanovich He added 18.

Murray was 8 from 14 from behind the bow and 17 of 26 in general. He even drowned 3 of the upper part of the key that was not counted because the ball left his fingertips divided again after it ignited the red light on the back plate, indicating the end of the first half.

This was left Denver by 67-59, whose nuggets extended to 99-83 heading to the fourth quarter thanks to two 3 seconds in the closing seconds, one of Westprick and the other 28 feet from Christian Brown.

Westprook, who sat the game 4 with left foot inflammation, returned to work and scored 16 points in the first half in 12 minutes. His return, the temporary coach, allowed Nuggets David Adelman, who uses his seat more after all the five beginners recorded at least 42 minutes in game 4.

Clepers has not lost consecutive games since March 4.

Report by Associated Press.

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