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Michael Porter Jr. had 15 points, Aaron Gordon
scored 13 and Facundo Campazzo had 11 for the Nuggets, who took
a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series.
Game 4 is Saturday afternoon in Portland.
Damian Lillard led Portland with 37 points. CJ McCollum had 22,
Norman Powell scored 18, Carmelo Anthony had 17 and Jusuf Nurkic
finished with 13 points and 13 rebounds.
Denver led 89-81 early in the fourth before Anthony hit a corner
3-pointer, a pair of free throws and another one from long range
to tie it at 91-all with 6:55 left.
The teams traded misses until Rivers hit a 3-pointer to give the
Nuggets the lead again. McCollum split a pair of free throws and
Gordon hit a layup to make it 96-92 with 5:10 left.
Anthony made a driving layup but Rivers answered with two more
from deep to stretch the lead to 102-94 with 3:49 left.
Lillard hit a layup, Jokic made two free throws and a layup
following a Trail Blazers miss to make it 106-96. Lillard hit a
30-footer, Gordon dunked and Lillard and Powell also had dunks
to make it 108-103 with 1:38 left.
Denver scored five straight to go up by 10 but Portland made a
trio of 3-pointers to get within 118-115 with 3.9 seconds left.
Monte Morris missed two free throws but Jokic tipped in the
second miss to seal it.
Denver led by as many as 12 in the first half and took a 64-59
lead into intermission.
The Trail Blazers got within two but Campazzo hit from deep and
Jokic scored eight quick points to push the lead to 75-64 early
in the third period.
Portland used a 13-4 run to get within 79-77, but Denver hit
five free throws in the final two minutes to take an 84-79 lead
into the fourth quarter.
--Field Level Media
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