
{"id":489314,"date":"2025-01-15T03:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T07:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=489314"},"modified":"2025-01-15T03:44:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T07:44:56","slug":"murrays-season-high-45-points-enough-for-nuggets-to-beat-mavs-118-99","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/murrays-season-high-45-points-enough-for-nuggets-to-beat-mavs-118-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Murray&#8217;s season-high 45 points enough for Nuggets to beat Mavs 118-99"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamal Murray scored a season-high 45 points, including an electrifying 32-point first half, to propel the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\">Denver Nuggets<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> to a commanding 118-99 victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Murray, shooting 18-for-26 from the field and 5-for-9 from beyond the arc, was astonishing on the filed while adding six assists and two steals.<\/p>\n<p>His 32 points in the first half marked the third-highest first-half total in the NBA this season. Murray exited the game with under four minutes left, just five points shy of his career-high 50-point performance from 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Porter Jr. contributed 13 points, and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\">Nikola Jokic<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> added a double-double with 10 points and 14 rebounds, anchoring Denver&#8217;s dominance.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jamal Murray COOKED the Mavs \ud83d\ude24<\/p>\n<p>45 PTS<br \/>\n18-26 FG<br \/>\n6 AST<br \/>\n5 3PM<\/p>\n<p>Nuggets have won 8 of their last 10 \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NyfEsX6Jal\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/NyfEsX6Jal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1879396453547999318?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks welcomed <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\">Kyrie Irving<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> back after a five-game absence due to a lumbar back sprain, but he struggled offensively, finishing with 11 points on 4-for-18 shooting. Daniel Gafford and Naji Marshall chipped in 13 and 11 points, respectively, for Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>Murray&#8217;s explosive scoring set the tone for Denver, who secured another impressive win while continuing to assert their dominance in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oe47Dv76Rts?si=7wbG8cSecnS2C18f\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamal Murray scored a season-high 45 points, including an electrifying 32-point first half, to propel the Denver Nuggets to a commanding 118-99 victory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":489315,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16748,16736,17266],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17975,17859,18385],"acf":{"announce":"Kyrie Irving came back after missing five games, but he finished with just 11 points","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\/489314"}],"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=489314"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489319,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489314\/revisions\/489319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489314"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=489314"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=489314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}