The Denver Nuggets defeated the Atlanta Hawks 133-115 in the NBA.
The one with Minnesota was just an incident. An ugly episode. Denver is winning again, even though he has been plagued by personnel problems, and the best player spent a little more than half of the game on the floor.
Nikola Jokic shone again with 20 points (8/12 from the game), 10 rebounds, and seven assists for “only” 26 minutes of the game in Atlanta, which was without the injured Bogdan Bogdanovic.
The reason is two quick fouls by the Serbian center at the beginning of the second half, due to which coach Michael Malone pulled him to the bench in order to reduce the risk.
And his team did well anyway.
They shone without the injured Michael Porter Jr., Jamal Maria, Perry Dozier, Marcus Howard, JaMychal Green, and because of the Kovid protocol of the absent Bol Bol.
Denver scored 133 points, the most since the beginning of the season, and the good news for that franchise is that Jokic had the right help from his teammates.
Denver shot 58.1 percent from the game, 44.7 percent out of the line for three, noting that Jeff Green also shot four three-pointers (20 points in total), while Monte Morris counted to 21.
At Atlanta, as expected, Tre Young was the most prominent with 34 points and ten assists, but without Bogdanovic, Hill, and Hunter, the Hawks are in free fall.
This was their fifth tied lost game at home.
Denver climbed to seventh in the West with 15-14, while Atlanta is ninth in the East with 14-15.
