{"id":434614,"date":"2023-04-29T23:24:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T03:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=434614"},"modified":"2023-04-29T23:24:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T03:24:39","slug":"murray-notches-34-nuggets-top-suns-125-107-in-game-1","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/murray-notches-34-nuggets-top-suns-125-107-in-game-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Murray notches 34, Nuggets top Suns 125-107 in Game 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamal Murray finished with 34 points, scoring 6 of his team&#8217;s 16 three-pointers, and helped the Denver Nuggets to win comfortably against the Phoenix Suns 125-107 at Ball Arena in Denver, CO, and led 1-0 in the \u00bd final series in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Startin&#8217; off the series with a W<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BringItIn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BringItIn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K6cBAjKyEB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/K6cBAjKyEB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuggets\/status\/1652507389831307265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The current MVP and MVP finalist Nikola Jokic notched 24 and had 19 boards as Aaron Gordon helped with 23 points for the victory of the top seed in the West.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nikola Jokic and Aaron Gordon showed out in Game 1 \u26cf\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Joker: 24 PTS, 19 REB, 5 AST<br \/>\nAG: 23 PTS, 6 REB, 69% FG<\/p>\n<p>Nuggets claim the 1-0 series lead.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBAPlayoffs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NBAPlayoffs<\/a> presented by Google Pixel <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ex6ttW4ede\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Ex6ttW4ede<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1652510288770658307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Durant notched 29 points for Phoenix, and Devin Booker scored 27, but Chris Paul finished with only 11. Devin averaged over 37 points in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> round matchup victory against LA Clippers.<\/p>\n<p>The next game is on Monday again at Ball Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Two seasons ago, Phoenix swept Denver in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round of the playoffs, but the Nuggets were without Jamal Murray, who was out for the season with torn ACL.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/guyCTGqaTRg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamal Murray finished with 34 points, scoring 6 of his team&#8217;s 16 three-pointers, and helped the Denver Nuggets to win comfortably against the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":434615,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,17837,17005],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[17859,17557,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Denver takes the 1st match against Phoenix in the West Semifinals.","video":["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\/434614"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/434614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434614"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=434614"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=434614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}