{"id":436367,"date":"2023-05-20T23:13:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T03:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436367"},"modified":"2023-05-20T23:13:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T03:13:45","slug":"nuggets-beat-lakers-in-la-and-take-a-3-0-series-lead","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nuggets-beat-lakers-in-la-and-take-a-3-0-series-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets beat Lakers in LA and take a 3-0 series lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamal Murray notched 37 points, and he scored 30 of them in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half as he also had 7 boards and 6 assists; the Denver Nuggets defeated Los Angeles Lakers in Game 3 at crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, CA, and the franchise needs only 1 more victory to clinch the West Finals matchup.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">GOT ONE ON THE ROAD \u2692 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/30stiyhUdT\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/30stiyhUdT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuggets\/status\/1660119209916104706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the league\u2019s history, no franchise came from a 3-0 deficit to win the playoff series, and LeBron James and his teammates are faced with almost impossible tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Nikola Jokic finished with 24 points, 8 assists, and 6 rebounds as Bruce Brown, for less than 29 minutes on the court, notched 15 points.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Whata dime. Whata bucket. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fgnxW4z9Fw\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/fgnxW4z9Fw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuggets\/status\/1660118470401617920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jamal Murray tonight:<\/p>\n<p>37 PTS<br \/>\n7 REB<br \/>\n6 AST<br \/>\n2 STL<br \/>\n5 3P<\/p>\n<p>Joins Jokic as the only Nuggets to reach those numbers in a playoff game. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1SerrYghrs\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/1SerrYghrs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 StatMuse (@statmuse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/statmuse\/status\/1660118709539667969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Anthony Davis scored 28 points and had 18 boards as LeBron James and Austin-reaves\/&#8221;&gt;Austin Reaves each finished with 23 points, but LA Lakers lost at home and faced elimination in the next match.<\/p>\n<p>Game 4 is on Monday again at crypto.com Arena in LA.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nikola Jokic (24 PTS, 8 AST) helps lead the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuggets?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@nuggets<\/a> to a Game 3 win and 3-0 series lead!<\/p>\n<p>DEN\/LAL Game 4: Monday, 8:30pm\/et | ESPN <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TXjkmPHMQz\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/TXjkmPHMQz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1660121130558976002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamal Murray notched 37 points, and he scored 30 of them in the 1st half as he also had 7 boards and 6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":436368,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,16970,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17859,17645,1067],"acf":{"announce":"No team in NBA history was eliminated after a 3-0 lead.","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\/436367"}],"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=436367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436367"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436367"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}