Nikola Jokic scores 55 points to match NBA season high, Nuggets beat Clippers for 6th straight win

Nikola Jokic had 55 points, tying the highest-scoring show successful the NBA this season, and 12 rebounds and the Denver Nuggets bushed the short-handed Los Angeles Clippers 130-116 connected Wednesday nighttime for their sixth consecutive victory

INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- Nikola Jokic had 55 points, tying the highest-scoring show successful the NBA this season, and 12 rebounds and the Denver Nuggets bushed the short-handed Los Angeles Clippers 130-116 connected Wednesday nighttime for their sixth consecutive victory.

Oklahoma City prima Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 55 successful a double-overtime crippled astatine Indiana connected Oct. 23.

Jokic scored 25 of Denver's 39 points successful the archetypal quarter. He had 8 successful the 2nd earlier coming backmost with 19 successful the third. He sat retired astir of the 4th earlier scoring 3 points to implicit his nighttime going 18 of 23 from the field. He missed adding to his league-leading six triple-doubles with six assists. The Serbian large antheral was 5 of 6 connected 3-pointers and made 14 of 16 escaped throws.

James Harden scored 23 points — making each 10 of his escaped throws — and had 8 rebounds and 5 assists to pb the spiraling Clippers, who took a large stroke earlier successful the time erstwhile they recovered retired that Bradley Beal volition miss the remainder of the play with a fractured hip. They're presently without Kawhi Leonard, who has a sprained ankle and foot.

Jordan Miller added a career-high 22 points disconnected the seat and Ivica Zubac had 18 points arsenic Los Angeles mislaid its sixth successful a enactment to autumn to 3-8.

The Clippers kept it adjacent successful the archetypal fractional contempt Jokic's prolific scoring. After being down 10 successful the opening quarter, they led by 10 and were up 68-63 astatine halftime.

Jokic took implicit successful the third, doubly putting unneurotic idiosyncratic runs of six consecutive points. The Nuggets led 106-90 going into the fourth.

Nuggets: At Minnesota connected Saturday night.

Clippers: At Dallas successful an NBA Cup crippled connected Friday nighttime to unfastened a seven-game trip.

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