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NBA game delayed in 'crazy' fashion - CtrlF.XYZ

NBA game delayed in 'crazy' fashion

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Nikola Jokic had 30 points, 12 rebounds and 12 assists, and the hot-shooting Denver Nuggets bushed the Boston Celtics 123-111 successful a matchup of NBA league leaders that was delayed astir 40 minutes due to the fact that a almighty dunk bent 1 of the rims.

Jokic deed 10 of 13 shots from the tract and each 8 escaped throws successful his 2nd consecutive triple-double and ninth of the season. Bruce Brown added 21 points for the Nuggets, who changeable 57 per cent from the level and made 17 of 30 3-pointers.

"He's my MVP. He should beryllium the league's MVP 3 times successful a row," Brown said of Jokic. "He's doing everything for us. Without Jok, I don't cognize wherever we'd be."

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Denver won for the 10th clip successful 12 games, snapped a six-game skid against Boston and opened a one-game pb successful the Western Conference.

The Nuggets led by arsenic galore arsenic 18 and waited retired a agelong hold with 6:43 near arsenic a unit struggled to re-level the rim aft a dunk by Boston's Robert Williams III. It took six workers, 2 ladders, a level, telephone calls and yet a unit subordinate taking the rim disconnected the backboard earlier it was fixed.

"I didn't cognize I did it until my teammates started blaming me," Williams said. "I've ne'er done that before."

Players were allowed a little warmup earlier play resumed, and past the Nuggets pulled away.

"Man, that was crazy," Denver defender Bones Hyland said of the delay. "I've ne'er been successful a crippled with that before. We conscionable tried to enactment escaped and decorativeness the crippled out."

Jaylen Brown scored 30 points and Jayson Tatum shook disconnected a dilatory commencement to adhd 25 for Boston, which changeable conscionable 9 of 33 from three-point scope successful the opener of a four-game trip.

The nonaccomplishment snapped a four-game winning streak for the Celtics, whose pb successful the East was sliced to 1 and a fractional games.

Bruce Brown started successful spot of Jamal Murray (sore knee) and went 4 of 6 connected three-pointers.

It was a acquainted taxable for the Nuggets, who entered arsenic the NBA's apical 3-point shooting team. They are 34 of 58 from agelong region implicit the past 2 games.

This 1 was billed arsenic a matchup of apical NBA MVP contenders Jokic and Tatum. And the assemblage took notice.

A ample fig of Celtics fans started chanting "MVP! MVP!" erstwhile Tatum went to the foul enactment precocious successful the 2nd quarter. Nuggets fans loudly returned the favour moments aboriginal with their ain MVP chant for Jokic erstwhile helium went to the line.

In the end, Jokic showed it'll beryllium pugnacious to wrestle the trophy from him.

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