Los Angeles Lakers @ Denver Nuggets

55-23, 22-17 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Lakers LAL	20	27	27	22	96
Nuggets DEN	22	35	16	25	98

Denver NuggetsNuggetsDEN

52-27, 33-6 Home

Los Angeles Lakers

starters
Lamar OdomL. Odom
Pau GasolP. Gasol
Metta World PeaceM. World Peace
Derek FisherD. Fisher
Sasha VujacicS. Vujacic
bench
Josh PowellJ. Powell
Kobe BryantK. Bryant
Luke WaltonL. Walton
Adam MorrisonA. Morrison
Didier Ilunga-MbengaD. Ilunga-Mbenga
Andrew BynumA. Bynum
Shannon BrownS. Brown
Jordan FarmarJ. Farmar
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
34	5	1-6	0-1	3-4	13	1	2	1	0	2	11	4	+3
44	26	8-17	0-0	10-11	13	5	3	0	3	6	7	3	-2
39	22	7-11	3-4	5-6	6	3	4	2	0	3	3	2	+8
36	10	2-11	0-2	6-8	4	4	0	2	0	1	3	1	-2
26	8	3-12	2-7	0-0	3	1	0	0	1	1	2	2	-13
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
12	4	2-3	0-0	0-0	5	1	0	0	0	3	2	2	-7
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	-4
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	4	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	12	3-12	2-6	4-4	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	4	+11
16	7	3-8	1-1	0-0	3	1	0	0	1	0	3	0	-4
	96	30-82	8-21	28-33	52	16	11	5	6	17	35	20
		37%	38%	85%

Denver Nuggets

starters
Carmelo AnthonyC. Anthony
Nene N. Hilario
Johan PetroJ. Petro
Chauncey BillupsC. Billups
Arron AfflaloA. Afflalo
bench
Malik AllenM. Allen
Chris AndersenC. Andersen
Kenyon MartinK. Martin
Joey GrahamJ. Graham
Renaldo BalkmanR. Balkman
Anthony CarterA. Carter
JR SmithJ. Smith
Ty LawsonT. Lawson
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
42	31	10-20	3-5	8-11	4	4	1	1	3	2	2	4	-1
34	11	2-7	0-0	7-10	7	4	2	1	1	1	6	4	+17
19	2	1-3	0-0	0-0	7	1	1	1	0	1	6	4	+12
39	12	4-14	2-6	2-2	4	6	3	0	0	0	4	1	+9
18	8	3-7	1-2	1-1	3	0	1	0	1	1	2	1	-5
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
10	0	0-2	0-1	0-0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	3	-11
26	4	2-3	0-0	0-0	7	0	0	0	2	3	4	3	-18
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-2	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	+4
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	+5
32	26	10-19	5-11	1-2	6	1	0	1	0	1	5	3	+5
9	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	-7
	98	34-78	11-25	19-28	39	23	10	5	7	9	30	23
		44%	44%	68%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Matchups

LAL

DEN wins season

3-1

DEN

Game 1@ DEN

Final

105

113

Game 2@ LAL

Final

126

Game 3@ LAL

Final

Game 4@ DEN

Final

Game Information

Denver, CO

Referee:Dan Crawford

Referee:Gary Zielinski

Referee:Courtney Kirkland

Western Conference

Pacific	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
LA Lakers	53	29	.646	-	W3
Phoenix	45	37	.549	8	W1
LA Clippers	42	40	.512	11	W1
Golden State	37	45	.451	16	L3
Sacramento	22	60	.268	31	L1

Northwest	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Oklahoma City	64	18	.780	-	L2
Denver	54	28	.659	10	W12
Minnesota	49	33	.598	15	W2
Portland	42	40	.512	22	W2
Utah	22	60	.268	42	L1

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