INSANE GAME 4 ENDING #4 Nuggets at #5 Clippers | April 26, 2025
The Denver Nuggets defeated the LA Clippers, 101-99, behind Aaron Gordon’s game-winning dunk at the buzzer.
Nuggets Top Performers
Nikola Jokić: 36 points, 21 rebounds, 8 assists, 2 steals
Christian Braun: 17 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists
Aaron Gordon: 14 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists
Clippers Top Performers
Kawhi Leonard: 24 points, 9 rebounds
James Harden: 15 points, 11 assists
The Clippers trailed by 20 points entering the fourth quarter, but took the lead with 1:11 remaining at 96-97 before Gordon’s buzzer-beater
Notable Stats
This is the first game-winning, buzzer-beating dunk in the NBA Playoffs of the play-by-play era
It is the 5th game-winning, buzzer-beating dunk overall of the play-by-play era, joining:
12/26/2017 PHO 99 vs MEM 97 Tyson Chandler
02/07/2014 ORL 103 vs OKC 102 Tobias Harris
03/25/2011 POR 98 vs SA 96 Nicolas Batum
03/24/2010 ATL 86 vs ORL 84 Josh Smith
11/08/2002 WAS 100 vs LAL 99 Jerry Stackhouse
Nikola Jokić joins Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (2x), Wilt Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor as the only players in NBA history to total 35+ pts, 20+ reb and 8+ ast in a Playoff game
The Denver Nuggets tie the best-of-seven series against the LA Clippers, 2-2. Game 5 will take place on Tuesday, April 29th at 10:00 PM on TNT
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24 Comments
love love game 7
it would be awesome 😎 in game 7
Justice is served
The series is fantastic, with Denver and the referees evenly matched!
It reminds me of kuroko basketball play when kuroko intentionally shot but know kagami will take the dunk
denver and clippers are the best series man
Feels like WCF bro. Dang
since game1 ,the best series
Pity one of these teams have to loose. I'd rather see clippers thrashing lakers in the first round. But Jokic supporting cast decided to go on vacation in the closer of the season and they lost the 3rd spot.
The crowd sounds like the Warriors fans back when they were in Oakland
Two poverty ass teams. Adam silver would probably be happy if neither could advance lol
Zu stopped Gordon from wilding out and getting ejected…. The irony 😂
At 4:38 or so, that was totally on Murray. I get hindsight, but it was an open mid range 2
I have been watching basketball for 30+ years and I have never seen a buzzer beater like that. What an amazing ending to the game 🙂
Nuggets defense is sooooo trash
"I don't know it's so close '
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Being purposely blind
This series has been absolutely insane , but in my opinion so has all the other teams and matchups around the NBA , the NBA is really delivering great basketball right now. Tons of grit and toughness on display.
The fouls on jokic are crazy
james harden nc defense!!! 😂😂😂
Great win by the nuggets , but the comeback the clippers mounted was legendary. Bodanovich and Kawhi were menaces on both sides of the ball!😊
Did that AG dunk counted as Assist from Jokic? Or mossed FG for Jokic?😂
I was looking for Jimmy Valvano running on the court.
Am I wrong or is this a untapped exploit of the game, passes disguised as shots with no intent to go in are protect by the goal tend rule right? Leaving it open to be dunked or tapped in. I know this was intended to be a shot but it weirdly acted like a trick play.
I thought Aaron was gonna be robbed of what could be another dunk showcase, but now the basketball gods got it right.