NBA Gametime reacts to Denver Nuggets beat Lakers 124-114; Nikola Jokic 35 Pts; LeBron James 26 Pts

NBA Gametime reacts to Denver Nuggets beat Lakers 124-114; Nikola Jokic 35 Pts; LeBron James 26 Pts

1039 to go in the second quarter LeBron James already the League’s all-time leading score became the first player in NBA history to reach the 40,000 regular season Point Plateau hard to wrap your brain around welcome in it’s game time everybody from our Atlanta Studio that’s coach Sam Mitchell

I’m Matt Wier good to have you with us game just completed in La let’s take you through the night a historic one for the king as the Lakers took on the defending champs the Denver Nuggets both teams came in hot that’s a $40,000 jacket right there Point jacket you know I’m guessing he

Doesn’t have to pay for anything no nuggets had one five straight La had one nine of their last 12 that was LeBron of course and here he is from three as he inches closer to that big round number D’Angelo Russell to LeBron draws the foul at that

Point he’s just two points away working on Michael Porter Jr who will forever be in that picture that his storic one as he lays it in left-handed remember LeBron is a natural lepy so easier shot for him and with that 40,000 regular season points well a guy

That came into the league P first not all time lead score and now he has 40,000 points and I would argue you might agree with me I still think passing is his first instinct and the thing he does best y it is it’s remarkable Austin Reeves misses on the

Three Anthony Davis is there for the putb dunk Davis 17 and 11 Lakers up by eight at the half third quarter here come the Champs had the weather of that storm all the emotion of the first half just kind of waiting their time Nicole yic for three yic what a shot this is

Ridiculous man you got to be kidding me you get big fella you got to call Glass on that one you got to call Glass he did this to them in the Western Conference Finals two or three times Jamal Murray to Porter who is really good if you like

Perfect absolutely dead perfect from the field he finished with 25 James for the Deep three and then Austin Reeves handling sets up LeBron Reeves had 14 assists that’s a career high James with 26 nuggets take over late yic with the turnaround Jamal Murray really had no one to guard him

Defensively late in the game he had 24 hey Denver whenever they need a bucket they go to that two-man game with those two guys look at this look at this pass I mean you’re thinking he’s going up with the jump hook and he throws a jump hook pass for a dunk unbelievable the

Decision making in that Split Second he knew exactly where Aaron Gordon was and he found him yic 351 and seven as the Nuggets win six in a row Michael Porter Jr by the way became the first player in NBA history to have a perfect shooting night on at least 10 field goal attempts

And at least five three-point attempts he finished with 25 Denver’s rolling here’s the Joker afterwards the fans in the building were hoping this the focus is on the right spot we are doing the things how we want to do we don’t have too many breakdowns

Um I think I just like how we are playing the game right now you Know so the Nuggets get the win on the bronze night spoil that a little bit and you know we spent a lot of time on the set you and I the other analysts talking about all the potential contenders in the Western Conference and then on a night like this the Champs remind us

That they’re the team to beat absolutely look you look at the Denver Nuggets you look at the Joker I mean what he’s done back-to-back MVPs Jamal Murray when he’s healthy Michael Porter Jr 10 for 10 doing what he’s doing and then Aaron gourd I mean you look at this team they

Are stacked and again we’ve forgotten about them because they’ve just kind of been taking their time going through the Western Conference but they’re sitting right there in the top four where they need to be now they’re making that push to try to overtake OKC in Minnesota to

Get that number one seed and Matt if they gets the number one seed and all RADS through the Western confence has to go through Denver and that altitude up there hey man it’s going to be hard to beat them four times because they got something that no other team can defend

That high screening road with Jamal Murray and the Joker is second to none is the best pick and roll combo in the league maybe ever and so until you can figure out how to guard that you’re going to have a hard time if Michael Porter Jr is shooting from the side like

This and Aaron Gordon it’s going to be awfully hard for them to beat look at the stack West and you can literally say one through 10 all 10 of those teams in the right situation could come out the Western Conference amazing um you know Denver’s chemistry is second to none

Offensively there’s not a lot of depth there that’s real concern because of the potential for any sort of an injury and every team is trying to avoid injuries but you know playoffs they’re going to play seven eight thank you dep dep only matters if one of your guys get hurt

Early but they’re only going to play teams in the play only going to play seven eight guys there’s no back to backs you get a chance to play and rest you’re only going to stretch it out to eight or nine if you have to because of

Foul trouble injuries so as long as D and I know what Mike Malone is doing right now he’s getting his seven guys ready he’s figuring out who’s going to be that eighth potentially that ninth that’s the cut off point he’s not going deep if he has to go past nine that

Means a whole lot of people have got hurt or someone’s playing some terrible basketball so Mike Malone right now is getting this team ready because they’ve used the regular season to get ready for the playoffs and now the playoffs approaching they’re starting to get locked in how important will Michael

Porter Jr be in the postseason and some of his numbers are actually a little down this year but I would argue he is a much improved player in a lot of ways that don’t have to do with shooting Matt he and Aaron G their importance is

Defense those two guys both of them 610 both of them long and athletic think about something you talking back at the Clippers Paul George kawh lonard they’re very important because at some point those two teams may meet de Michael Porter Jr and Aaron G going to have to

Match up with those forwards and if they get through that and get to the finals and the Boston Celtics come out to East which we think look at that match up at the forward position Jaylen Brown and Tatum Michael Porter Jr Aaron Gordon that is going to be a classic the simp

The difference is that’s Center position porzingis against the Joker I mean the matchups of there all we got to do is get to all the Clutter I think Boston to do their part is going to be a lot more tougher for Denver to get out there West

Denver with a convincing win on the road to spoil LeBron’s night but you know we should take a moment as everyone around the NBA world is doing and consider what that number means 40,000 regular season points LeBron was already the first member of the 30,000 point 10,000

Rebound 10,000 assist club and now he’s added another 10,000 points to that to become the first 40 10K 10K guy Matt for a guy that came into the league with a pass first mentality who base his brand um I’m going to make everybody on the floor better he’s your alltime lead

Scorer and now he’s a clip 40,000 points and think about this every point from here on out it’s just adding to the record now people ask me all the time is that anyone in sight is that anyone currently playing in the NBA that can probably supplant him or catch him say

One kid one guy got a outside chance and that’s the guy in San Antonio because he’s young he has a skill set that we’ve never seen before and we know this long athletic big guys can play well into their 40s and if the way the game is

Played now and his ability to step out and shoot the three he may have a punch as chance but other than that I can’t see anyone getting close look at those numbers you could maybe project Luca donic getting near that but he’s got to stay healthy and that’s it has nothing

To do with Luka that’s so hard for any player to do to have the kind of durability that LeBron I stay healthy Matt but is he going to average 74 75 games a season that’s another thing up until five six years ago LeBron James were playing 70 plus games every season

Right So for anybody to catch him not only do you have to play season you got to you got to play 70 to 75 games and got to sprinkle in a couple 82 in there right which again in today’s NBA I just going to say it very few players are

Doing that uh the the point about LeBron was he came into the league and what he was then the other thing we forget is you think back to the’ 05 finals uh no the ‘ 07 finals in the the finals against San Antonio the finals when they

Would just build a wall and make him a jump shooter because he he wasn’t a good jump shooter no and he’s still not a great jump a great jump shooter but he’s good enough to keep you off balance and the thing that he is though he can score

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NBA Gametime reacts to Denver Nuggets beat Los Angeles Lakers 124-114; Nikola Jokic 35 Pts; LeBron James 26 Pts

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