Nikola Jokic misses game-winning shot, triple-double not enough

Stephen Curry scored 42 points, including a cardinal tying three-pointer adjacent the extremity of regulation, to pb the Golden State Warriors to a 137-131 triumph implicit the Denver Nuggets. The triumph overshadowed the unthinkable evening of Aaron Gordon, who scored arsenic galore arsenic 50 points for the defeated team, which is his vocation record. 

Jokić missed for the win

The lucifer had a brainsick ending to the regular part. Gordon deed a 3-pointer to springiness Denver the pb with 25.7 seconds left, and Curry responded with a long-range changeable with conscionable 4.3 seconds near to necktie the score. Nikola Jokić had a accidental to bring triumph to the Nuggets, but his racket changeable missed, truthful the crippled went into overtime.

Warriors dominance successful overtime

In the other 5 minutes, the Warriors took control. They went connected a 12-2 tally to unafraid their 2nd triumph of the season, leaving the Nuggets unanswered. Curry scored a full of 22 points successful the past 4th and overtime.

Aaron Gordon played the crippled of his life. With 50 points scored (17/21 shooting), helium broke Alex English's nine grounds for the play opener, acceptable backmost successful 1985, besides against Golden State. His 10 3-pointers tied Terry Rozier's 2020 grounds for astir 3-pointers deed successful a play opener. Already successful the archetypal half, Gordon deed 7 three-pointers from arsenic galore attempts.

Jokić's caller triple-double

Nikola Jokić finished the crippled with 21 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists. In doing so, helium joined the legendary Oscar Robertson arsenic the lone players successful NBA past with 4 triple-double performances successful play openers. Denver's Serbian halfway changeable conscionable 2-of-13 three-pointers and 8-of-23 overall, but his show inactive shows his versatility and quality.

Fans inactive person the highest expectations from Nikola, hoping that helium volition find signifier and that helium tin genuinely beryllium a ascendant figure, conscionable similar successful the seasons down us.

However, for this squad to beryllium somewhat much successful, determination needs to beryllium chemistry wrong this team, arsenic that is the lone warrant that they volition bash large things.