The Denver Nuggets (17-6) defeat the Charlotte Hornets (7-17), 115-106 to win their tenth straight road game!

115 - 106

Box Scores: NBA - Yahoo

GAME SUMMARY

Location: Spectrum Center

Officials: Marat Kogut, Gediminas Petraitis, and Matt Kallio

Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Total
Denver Nuggets	34	23	30	28	115
Charlotte Hornets	34	24	23	25	106

TEAM STATS

Team	PTS	FG	FG%	3P	3P%	FT	FT%	OREB	TREB	AST	PF	STL	TO	BLK
Denver Nuggets	115	43-83	51.8%	13-35	37.1%	16-22	72.7%	5	43	30	19	8	10	2
Charlotte Hornets	106	38-85	44.7%	14-46	30.4%	16-21	76.2%	10	57	23	22	7	13	2

PLAYER STATS


Denver Nuggets	MIN	PTS	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	ORB	DRB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	±
Peyton Watson^SF	30:25	10	4-9	1-2	1-5	1	7	8	1	0	1	4	0	10
Spencer Jones^PF	24:37	8	3-5	2-4	0-0	1	1	2	1	2	0	1	5	14
Nikola Jokić^C	34:50	28	11-16	4-8	2-3	0	9	9	11	1	0	4	2	6
Cameron Johnson^SG	38:38	8	2-7	1-5	3-4	1	3	4	3	0	0	0	4	9
Jamal Murray^PG	35:28	34	14-25	2-9	4-4	0	3	3	6	1	0	0	1	14
Tim Hardaway Jr.	26:55	14	3-6	2-4	6-6	0	1	1	2	2	0	0	1	7
Bruce Brown	19:54	0	0-3	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	-12
Jalen Pickett	16:03	5	2-3	1-2	0-0	1	3	4	3	1	0	0	2	-6
Jonas Valančiūnas	13:10	8	4-9	0-0	0-0	1	3	4	3	1	1	1	2	3
Curtis Jones	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Zeke Nnaji	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hunter Tyson	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tamar Bates	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Christian Braun	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Aaron Gordon	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
DaRon Holmes II	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Julian Strawther	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Charlotte Hornets	MIN	PTS	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	ORB	DRB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	±
Kon Knueppel^SF	33:28	14	5-13	2-10	2-2	1	3	4	3	1	0	2	3	-14
Miles Bridges^PF	36:54	24	10-19	0-6	4-6	2	7	9	8	1	0	3	1	-11
Ryan Kalkbrenner^C	24:30	6	3-4	0-0	0-0	0	6	6	0	0	1	1	6	-10
Brandon Miller^SG	29:32	17	5-19	4-10	3-3	3	2	5	5	1	1	5	2	-12
KJ Simpson^PG	29:18	16	6-14	2-8	2-4	1	4	5	1	1	0	0	0	-14
Mason Plumlee	21:55	4	1-2	0-0	2-2	1	5	6	2	1	0	1	4	3
Sion James	25:52	7	2-6	1-5	2-2	1	1	2	1	1	0	1	3	1
Liam McNeeley	19:32	13	4-5	4-5	1-2	0	4	4	2	1	0	0	1	4
Antonio Reeves	03:07	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
Tidjane Salaün	15:50	5	2-3	1-2	0-0	1	5	6	1	0	0	0	2	0
Drew Peterson	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Collin Sexton	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
LaMelo Ball	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pat Connaughton	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Moussa Diabaté	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Josh Green	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tre Mann	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Grant Williams	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Fit-Avocado-342 | Nuggets

121 | 15 hours ago

The nuggets sacrificed their home court altitude advantage to win games on the road it seems, we’ve really been taking care of things in other teams arenas

BackupAcct6969420 | Mavericks

58 | 15 hours ago

Not only did you lose your last 4 home games, y’all lost them to 9-16 Dallas, Spurs without Wemby, 6-17 Kings, and 9-13 Bulls lol.

Narrow-Theory-3533

51 | 15 hours ago

And we were up 18+ on most of those games. It was just meltdown after meltdown.

Hopsalong | Nuggets

23 | 14 hours ago

Most of those games were Denver flying into Denver off a road game. The altitude sometimes works against us too.

Fit-Avocado-342 | Nuggets

22 | 14 hours ago

We can pull off a 25 pt comeback on the road vs an above .500 team but god forbid this team ever faces a shorthanded or rebuilding team at home lmao

Very odd season, but it’s been our best start in franchise history so that’s nice. Hopefully the home stuff is just early season bizarreness and not an actual trend

AG and Braun are still out too, so this has been a pretty good run from the nuggets to keep things stable till they are back.

BurstPanther | Nuggets

9 | 14 hours ago

Lucky the under .500 teams don’t make playoffs lol

HashCollector

5 | 14 hours ago

At least they won’t probably see any of those teams in the playoffs I guess?

Raisinbrahms28 | Nuggets

4 | 8 hours ago

Don’t get me started. Nuggets have always, in the Jokic era at least, played down to their competition. It’s put them in a couple of real bad spots. In 2023-2024 they lost a crucial game against the Spurs that put them in the 2 seed instead of the 1 seed. They played Minny in the second round and lost, and I truly think they win the whole damn thing that year if they end up as the 1 seed. Last year we squeaked into the 4 seed which put us against OKC in the second round. We lost both Washington games, 2 Portland games, etc.

We need to stop doing this.

solidgoldrocketpants | Knicks

6 | 14 hours ago

4D chess: they’re practicing for meeting OKC in the playoffs.

greywolf2155 | Supersonics

94 | 15 hours ago

Best 23-game start in team history. It doesn’t always feel like it, those home losses sucked, they often don’t win convincingly when they should … but this is a very good Nuggets team

dbgager | Nuggets

26 | 15 hours ago

hard to get up for the Hornets. A win is a win.

NotManyBuses | Charlotte Bobcats

16 | 14 hours ago

I was going to say, no way the team is usually this lazy right? The Hornets were laughably shorthanded tonight (and much worse than Denver even when healthy) so they’d win anyway but they were barely moving on defense half the time

1manadeal2btw | Nuggets

20 | 14 hours ago

Against below .500 teams we are always this lazy. It’s why we’ve lost a couple games to bad teams recently. We just rely on our insane offence to win.

Hopsalong | Nuggets

12 | 14 hours ago

Denver can get very lazy. This was good effort from Denver compared to some of their games last year, especially in the 3rd.

sloBrodanChillosevic | Supersonics

60 | 15 hours ago

Murray blowing up right at the beginning all the way to halftime and then doing barely anything for the second half is highly relatable when thinking about my own daily work habits

Narrow-Theory-3533

18 | 14 hours ago

They have been doubling Murray since then and he missed a couple of wide open shots.

PeopleCallMeSimon

7 | 14 hours ago

Except that Murray starts facing harder opposition when hes hot because teams will start focusing more on guarding him tightly. You have no excuse.

Constant_Charge_4528 | Bulls

17 | 14 hours ago

Speak for yourself, I face prime KG at work everyday

DudeIAm-blank- | Slovenia

1 | 8 hours ago

Lots of trashtalk at work?

heat_fan_ | Raptors

55 | 15 hours ago

Murray has been great this season

Jokic not even a triple double what a bust

Matzeeh | Spurs

33 | 14 hours ago

Jokic keeps being 1 rebound off its annoying. He doesnt really go for it either.

AM1232 | Nuggets

20 | 14 hours ago

Ultimate slacker, what a guy.

Poverty_Shoes | Nuggets

14 | 14 hours ago

Another Sombor Double, but still leading the NBA in rebounds by a healthy margin.

TheNaskgul | Nuggets

13 | 14 hours ago

I mean… it’s such a common occurrence that we have a name for it

Constant_Charge_4528 | Bulls

7 | 14 hours ago

You know he can just grab one of those freebies and get his triple double but he just doesn’t

DyslexicAutronomer | Supersonics

6 | 14 hours ago

He’s feeding others baskets and rebounds

Reverse stat padding confirmed

CrippledBanana | Canada

3 | 14 hours ago

Washed and officially bum status

FinalFrash

2 | 14 hours ago

The Quesarito died for this

Narrow-Theory-3533

38 | 15 hours ago

17-6 but Denver still feels like they are underperforming this season.

Happy_but_dead

27 | 14 hours ago

Not sure about underperforming, but it does feel like they have barely touched their ceiling in any of these games so far.

AM1232 | Nuggets

25 | 14 hours ago

It’s the combo of injuries to the better defenders + slow starts for a couple of guys + meltdowns at times due to bad defensive effort in the losses and the occasional dumb call. If anything, they should have a couple of those losses vs poor teams as wins instead.

PlasticPresentation1

8 | 12 hours ago

It’s also because Cam Johnson and Bruce Brown have yet to find any level of consistency as contributors. If Cam Johnson was a consistent and reliable 15ppg and Bruce Brown does more than cardio, the Nuggets would look even stronger

fanintenn | Nuggets

3 | 10 hours ago

It is a mystery. I expected those two guys to seamlessly integrate and THJ and Big Val to struggle more. It has been the opposite. Hardaway and Val look so comfortable, Cam was looking lost (better now) and Brown has seemed invisible.

IndependenceLate3415 | Nuggets

18 | 14 hours ago

Underperforming in the regular season is baked into the identity of this team.

Ok_Possible_5702

15 | 14 hours ago

They could have been 20-3 if they took care of things at home against sub .500 teams, in games they were already up.

KasherH | Nuggets

8 | 14 hours ago

17-6 but it does feel like we are phoning in the regular season right now.

XiaoRCT | Thunder

6 | 14 hours ago

Some of those losses at home simply shouldn’t happen and are just points out of line with how the Nuggets are actually playing. At some point they’ll go back to performing normally at their actual level at home.

Raisinbrahms28 | Nuggets

1 | 8 hours ago

Not offensively. This team is the best offense in the league.

But their defense is still just so fucking lazy. It’s mind numbing how many open threes teams get against us. Like, we just over rotate and double and leave dudes wide open.

dbgager | Nuggets

38 | 15 hours ago

Sure will be nice when we get Braun and Gordon back. Nuggets are still good enough to keep winning however. CB and AG are our 2 best defenders though…..miss them.

MarkusHowardStan |

6 | 14 hours ago

When are they supposed to be back? Braun should be close, probably a couple of weeks, right?

Apotheosis62 | Nuggets

12 | 14 hours ago

Early January for both

recollectionsmayvary | Nets

25 | 15 hours ago

My forever tinfoil hat theory: if Jokic can avoid the TD, he’s gonna settle for the sombor double everytime so long as it doesn’t impact the outcome of the game. Like I’m just convinced when he’s an assist or rebound away from a TD, he’ll do anything avoid the TD lol

nonresponsive

27 | 14 hours ago

For as much as everyone else talks about his triple doubles, I don’t think I’ve seen someone who cared less about his own stats. He’s more than happy to box out, let other guys get the easy ones.

itsnotyellowfever | MEM

14 | 13 hours ago

Gotta be the nicest superstar to play with as a teammate bc I’d be damned if I could find 10 players with even half the offensive ability he has content with taking 5 shots in a half while his teammate takes 17 and then continuing to feed another teammate who basically shaves assists with how terrible he’s finishing at the rim

recollectionsmayvary | Nets

14 | 14 hours ago

Oh yah totally lol as a Jokic fan, I deeply care but I know he absolutely does not lol

Narrow-Theory-3533

17 | 14 hours ago

He would literally avoid rebounds. Jokic would average 15rebounds a game if he has the same urge to rebound as Gobert or Sabonis, but he doesn’t. He is the best rebounder in the league, but would cave his stats in so that his teammates could get the rebound instead of him.

amateurish_gamedev

11 | 14 hours ago

I heard that some big man got really territorial with rebounds, and would get angry if other players get them.

Not Jokic though. He would be like, go get them friends, I’ll be here if you need me.

Ok_Possible_5702

5 | 14 hours ago

Sabonis is the obvious example of stat-farming on rebounds.

Crabbypattygod

3 | 14 hours ago

if he was like andre drummond he would legit average 20 boards a game but he doesnt care about uncontested boards

Dymatizeee | Knicks

20 | 14 hours ago

They’re just preparing to beat OKC 4 times at home

MarkusHowardStan |

13 | 14 hours ago

On the road

Dymatizeee | Knicks

12 | 14 hours ago

Their home

BetweenTheBuzzAndMe | Charlotte Bobcats

17 | 15 hours ago

i assumed us playing Denver without our entire PG rotation and one of our two okay centers was going to be a 30 point blowout loss, but good job everyone. moral victories all around

bigtice | Rockets

12 | 15 hours ago

Deciding which thing I’m most surprised by – Jokic finishing a rebound short of a triple double or Murray finishing with only 34 after dropping 23 in the 1st quarter.

lnb3456 | Nuggets

20 | 15 hours ago

probably the murray one, because in last 6 games Jokic has missed a triple double by 1 rebound 3 times and then one by 2 rebounds.

OldFart2001 | Nuggets

11 | 15 hours ago

NBA record is 16 straight.

Crabbypattygod

12 | 15 hours ago

nuggets now have road advantage instead of home

Renegadeforever2024 | Raptors

5 | 14 hours ago

jokic and murray are mythical together

BruceBrownMVP | Nets

6 | 14 hours ago

Best in the world

cornflake64

3 | 15 hours ago

Where’s LaMelo at?

DisMeDog

17 | 15 hours ago

Same place he always is. Dripped out on the bench.

cornflake64

3 | 15 hours ago

Trade him

theyikester | Hornets

5 | 15 hours ago

Bone bruise. No timeline yet. He was able to walk off the court last game and was seen in shoot around, so no one really knows what’s going on

MarkusHowardStan |

2 | 14 hours ago

The most important stat after the win: Jokic only played 28 minutes

BetweenTheBuzzAndMe | Charlotte Bobcats

19 | 14 hours ago

nah scored 28 points, he played 35 minutes

but he was able to conserve his energy anyway, he knows he doesn’t have to go 100% to beat half of the Hornets

MarkusHowardStan |

7 | 14 hours ago

I’m dumb. I was looking at the points.