{"id":435714,"date":"2023-05-16T23:46:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T03:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=435714"},"modified":"2023-05-16T23:46:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T03:46:16","slug":"nuggets-take-game-1-vs-lakers-132-126-despite-big-comeback","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nuggets-take-game-1-vs-lakers-132-126-despite-big-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets take Game 1 vs Lakers 132-126 despite big comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA Lakers star Anthony Davis had a huge game scoring 40 points and adding 10 rebounds, three steals and two blocks, but it wasn&#8217;t enough as the Nuggets hang on to win Game 1 of series. 132-126.<\/p>\n<p>Lakers were trailing big at one point, but managed to chip away massive 21-point second-half deficit. Although they tried everything, Nuggets held on to their lead and got Game 1 of the Western Conference finals.<\/p>\n<p>After taking a timeout down by five with 26.1 seconds remaining, the Lakers turned the ball over, effectively ending their comeback attempt as Nikola Jokic made a final free throw to put the finishing touches on his 34-point, 21-rebound, 14-assist triple-double.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Nuggets take down the Lakers in Game 1, 132-126! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MileHighBasketball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MileHighBasketball<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBAPlayoffs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NBAPlayoffs<\/a><br \/>\nA. Davis: 40 pts, 10 reb, 3 ast<br \/>\nN. Jokic: 34 pts, 21 reb, 14 ast <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/McK1jfAJoA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/McK1jfAJoA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OutOfSightSports?\u2122\ufe0f (@OOSSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OOSSports\/status\/1658676949185691648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>LeBron James had 26 points, 12 rebounds and nine assists. Austin Reaves led the late charge with 11 of his 23 points in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nikola Joki\u0107 DOMINATES with 35 PTS, 21 REB &amp; 14 AST as the Nuggets beat the Lakers TO TAKE A 1-0 LEAD ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xagZLuuD6f\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/xagZLuuD6f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Basketball Forever (@bballforever_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bballforever_\/status\/1658674082966306824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jamal Murray had 31 points and former Lakers guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scored 21.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I9v_84Fppfk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA Lakers star Anthony Davis had a huge game scoring 40 points and adding 10 rebounds, three steals and two blocks, but it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":435715,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,16970],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17859,17645],"acf":{"announce":"LA got within 6 points, but were trailing by 21 at one point","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\/435714"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435714"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=435714"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=435714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}