{"id":482255,"date":"2024-04-23T01:10:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T05:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482255"},"modified":"2024-04-23T01:10:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T05:10:27","slug":"murray-notches-buzzer-beater-as-nuggets-beat-lakers-101-99","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/murray-notches-buzzer-beater-as-nuggets-beat-lakers-101-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Murray notches buzzer-beater as Nuggets beat Lakers 101-99"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamal Murray scored a 15-foot step-back jumper at the buzzer, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\">Denver Nuggets<\/a><\/a> returned from a 20-point 2nd half trail to shock the LA Lakers 101-99 at Ball Arena in Denver, CO, and take a 2-0 lead in their postseason matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Jamal\u2019s fadeaway, falling-down match-triumphing winner provided Denver with their 1<sup>st<\/sup> lead since 5-3 at the beginning and gave the reigning champs their 10<sup>th<\/sup> straight victory against the Lakers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">HOW IS EVERYONE FEELING <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MileHighPlayoffs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MileHighPlayoffs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Road2Gold?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Road2Gold<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yNySCdzO2D\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/yNySCdzO2D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuggets\/status\/1782630353695350996?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The matchup will continue in Los Angeles with Game 3 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SPEECHLESS <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/es7yXY9r8V\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/es7yXY9r8V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuggets\/status\/1782637048798548176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Murray&#8217;s buzzer-beater came after LeBron missed a 3-pointer with 16 seconds left, and the match evened 99-99.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Porter Jr. secured the board with 13 seconds left, and Denver didn&#8217;t call a timeout, and Murray provided his magic as the guard finished with 20 points, including 14 in the 4th quarter, and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\">Nikola Jokic<\/a><\/a> finished with a triple-double \u2013 20 points, 20 rebounds, and 10 assists. Porter notched 22 points and Aaron Gordon added 14 for the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Davis led Los Angeles with 32 points, while LeBron finished with 26 points, and D&#8217;Angelo Russell notched 23 with a career-postseason-high of 7 three-pointers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe team effort was amazing and the crowd was amazing and they believed in us when we were down\u201d &#8211; Nikola Jokic on tonight\u2019s buzzer beater win<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\/MileHighPlayoffs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MileHighPlayoffs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D7B5eKpL3R\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/D7B5eKpL3R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; AltitudeTV (@AltitudeTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AltitudeTV\/status\/1782634283787596030?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles led 59-44 at halftime and had a 20-point advantage early in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> quarter but blew it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KNqahlIIxx8?si=ATB6ZHolVZN0WaN-\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamal Murray scored a 15-foot step-back jumper at the buzzer, and the Denver Nuggets returned from a 20-point 2nd half trail to shock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482256,"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":"Denver came back from a 20-point deficit to defeat Los Angeles.","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\/482255"}],"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=482255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482259,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482255\/revisions\/482259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482255"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482255"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}