LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers will take the court against Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets on Saturday.
The No. 7 seed in the Western Conference, the Los Angeles Lakers, will head on the road for the first game of a seven-game series in the first round of the NBA Playoffs taking on the No. 2 seed in the conference, the Denver Nuggets, at Ball Arena in Colorado on Saturday night. Finishing as the No. 8 seed in the conference, the Lakers had to take part in the conference play-in tournament just to get to the spot that they were in. They took on the conference’s No. 7 team, the New Orleans Pelicans, and came away with a 110-106 win on the road to move up a spot. LeBron James led the team in scoring in the win with 23 points on 6-of-20 shooting from the field and a team-high nine assists. Anthony Davis also had a magnificent game finished with the team’s only double-double with 20 points and 15 rebounds. D’Angelo Russell also finished with over 20 points dropping 21 with six assists in the win. With all starters finishing in double figures, they also got 17 points of production off of four players from the bench.
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Game Date: Apr. 20, 2024
Game Time: 8:30 p.m. ET
TV: ABC
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The No. 2 seed in the conference, the Nuggets, finished tied with the Oklahoma City Thunder but lost the tiebreaker and thus the No. 1 overall seed. They ended the year 57-35 losing by one point to the San Antonio Spurs in the second to last game of the regular season.
Nikola Jokic, an MVP frontrunner, leads the team averaging 26.4 points per game with 9.0 assists and 12.4 rebounds per game. He is followed by his guard counterpart Jamal Murray who averages 21.6 points per game with 4.1 rebounds and 6.5 assists per game. Michael Porter Jr. and Aaron Gordon also play vital roles on this squad.
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