Final 4:36 INTENSE ENDING Nuggets at Mavericks | December 23, 2025
The Mavericks defeated the Nuggets, 131-130 tonight in Dallas. Cooper Flagg finished with a team-high 33 points along with 9 rebounds and 9 assists for the Mavericks, while Anthony Davis tallied 31 points, 9 rebounds and 4 assists in the game. Jamal Murray recorded 31 points, 14 assists and 7 rebounds. The Mavericks improve their record to 12-19 with the win, while the Nuggets fall to 21-8 for the season.
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33 Comments
take a 3 instead of just easy get a 2
The Mav's seem immature in their offensive motion an flow compared to Denver. Cooper passes it and just stands there, same with the rest of the team… no cuts or nothing. It just wastes the clock down and doesn't make anything happen. Nuggets still a better team fundamentally
why go for 3 when there is 1 point diff
If you stop the video at 6:58 it is 5 vs 1!!! and jokic still can pass it to the corner for an open shot!!
gj NBA by leaking the score in the thumbnail. absolute idiots
BS. All denver needed was a 2 to win. Why force the 3?
I saw some home cooking big time payoffs somewhere. That’s why I don’t watch NBA anymore it too controlled
lol jokic and murray not shooting lol
thank you nico! you are a prophet❤
mavs win, lakers lose. what a great day🎉
1:39 Sad but Flagg had a walking
2:46 another walk
Jokic fault, he should take that last shoot easy catch win with 1 pts gap!
jokic could have won that game,. he was way above defenders @6:58
Every time Bruce Brown pull out a emote they start losing
AD is so trash 😂😂😂
dont show the final score ….
For all the comments asking why a three-pointer when two points would have been enough. Or those who say the last shot should be taken by a superstar, otherwise what's the point of having a superstar?
The shot was a three-pointer because at that moment the player on the three-point line was completely free and with all the space in front of him, so the best possible shot was on the three-point line.
A superstar can win games because of what he does throughout the game. If at the last moment a superstar is guarded by three defenders simultaneously and a teammate is completely free to take the best possible shot, the superstar passes the ball to that teammate because that's the best chance to win the game, even if that might not be appealing in a video game, or if what matters, and without judging this, isn't trying to win the game but rather getting someone to write that the superstar is great or that he sucks, which is the same thing from the point of view of to write it.
This is particularly true for Jokic in this specific situation. Jokic under the rim can beat any single player thanks to his movement, his technique and his sensitivity in close shots, but he is not an extremely athletic player capable of jumping over three opponents from a standing position, he is not a guard capable of dribble in the middle of three opponents to create an off-balanced shot backwards, but he is instead an excellent passer capable of giving the ball to an open teammate in the most comfortable way and with the right timing.
We also saw LeBron, who is a superstar, pass the ball on the last shot for a three-pointer, and perhaps on that occasion LeBron was even less guarded than Jokic was.
Jokic think his passing good or smthn bad decision to pass to Watson he didn’t make sht today
5:27 isn't that a travel ??
he moved both his feet
Man Jokic is a beast!!!
noobs
Yokitch = overrated
why give to watson? just shoot murray or jokic,hit or miss for crucial shots..
why tf would you pass up that shot when you got Martin behind you
Jokic could've made the easy floater. He wanted Peyton to learn how locked in he needs to be so that he's making that game winner come playoff time.
Flagg is making a statement. Very efficient. Its looking easy for him.
Healthy irving and AD could do a lot in this team. I can sense that
Jokic knows how lebron feels now.
T U Nico?
SO INTENSE
Once Kyrie returns, that should be another 20 points per game added to Mavs score board, if not that then I would say 15 at the least.
name 5 things that jordan did better than flagg