{"id":396973,"date":"2023-02-05T04:52:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T09:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=396973"},"modified":"2023-02-05T15:21:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T20:21:33","slug":"murray-pours-in-41-points-in-nuggets-win","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/murray-pours-in-41-points-in-nuggets-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Murray pours in 41 points in Nuggets&#8217; win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Jamal Murray finished with a season-high 41 points and seven assists and the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\">Denver Nuggets<\/a>, the best team in the Western Conference, won their third straight game, beating the Atlanta Hawks 128-108 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nuggets basketball <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q6rgpqOArA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/q6rgpqOArA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuggets\/status\/1622086594579804166?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Nikola Jokic had his 18th triple-double of the season &#8211; 14 points, 18 rebounds and 10 assists, for the Nuggets, who are 19-1 in their last 20 home games and moved into a tie with the Boston Celtics for the best record in the NBA at 37-16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Jokic also recorded the 94th regular-season triple-double of his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">With the Nuggets\u2019 success, Murray said Denver has to be ready to deal with the best effort from opposing teams on a nightly basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">\u201cWe can\u2019t underestimate any team. We\u2019ve got to come prepared. We\u2019ve got a target on our backs,\u201d Murray said. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen that, even today. They stuck in it for a while. We just had to lock in and we did that.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bro went crazy <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YFiAYPwWxR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/YFiAYPwWxR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuggets\/status\/1622099461442011136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He set the new season high on 24 shots, hitting stepback threes, side-step threes, contested floaters, and capped off the evening with a contested dunk in transition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Dejounte Murray scored 28 points to lead the Hawks. De\u2019Andre Hunter added 20 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Hawks visit New Orleans on Tuesday to cap a five-game trip while the Nuggets travel to Minnesota on Sunday night for the second in a back-to-back set.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NUGGETS WIN <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M2qnJHQxcn\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/M2qnJHQxcn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuggets\/status\/1622086171982704640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamal Murray finished with a season-high 41 points and seven assists and the Denver Nuggets, the best team in the Western Conference, won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":396974,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17176,16736,17266,16737],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Denver are now 19-1 in their last 20 home games and moved into a tie with the Boston Celtics for the best record in the NBA at 37-16","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/396973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/396973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396973"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=396973"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=396973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}