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04/04 18:37 CDT Jokic scores 40, outduels Wembanyama and Nuggets top Spurs
136-134 in OT
Jokic scores 40, outduels Wembanyama and Nuggets top Spurs 136-134 in OT
DENVER (AP) --- Nikola Jokic had 40 points, 13 assists and eight rebounds,
Christian Braun added 21 points and the Denver Nuggets beat San Antonio 136-134
in overtime Saturday to snap the Spurs' 11-game winning streak.
Cameron Johnson scored 17, Jamal Murray finished with 15 points and 10 assists
and Aaron Gordon scored 15 for the Nuggets.
Gordon scored with 6.2 seconds left in regulation to tie the game, then forced
Victor Wembanyama into a miss on the final shot of regulation.
Wembanyama finished with 34 points, 18 rebounds, seven assists and five blocked
shots for the Spurs, who lost for only the third time in their last 30 games.
Stephon Castle scored 20 points for San Antonio, while Devin Vassell and Julian
Champagnie each scored 18 for the Spurs.
Castle's three-point play midway through the second quarter put the Spurs up
57-44, that 13-point margin the biggest that they would hold all afternoon.
Wembanyama scored with 9:08 remaining to put San Antonio up 107-96. The Spurs
were 48-2 this season in games where they held double-digit leads in the fourth
quarter.
They're 48-3 now --- with two of those losses against the Nuggets, who rallied
from a 13-point deficit in the fourth to beat San Antonio on March 12.
Denver held San Antonio to 33% shooting the rest of the way, outscoring the
Spurs 40-27 in the final 14 minutes of the game including overtime.
Jokic had 16 of his points in those final 14 minutes, while Denver held
Wembanyama to 1 for 4 shooting in that span.
Up next
Spurs: Host Philadelphia on Monday.
Nuggets: Host Portland on Monday.
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