{"id":475853,"date":"2026-02-12T21:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/475853\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T21:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:07:14","slug":"nuggets-122-116-grizzlies-12-feb-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/475853\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets 122-116 Grizzlies (12 Feb, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

DENVER — \u2014 Nikola Jokic<\/a> and Jamal Murray<\/a> warmed up for their appearances in the NBA’s All-Star festivities by teaming up to help the Denver Nuggets<\/a> hold off the Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> 122-116 Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Jokic had the 184th triple-double of his career with 26 points, 15 rebounds and 11 assists. Murray added 22 points and was 4 for 4 from the foul line in the final 11.7 seconds.<\/p>\n

Tim Hardaway Jr<\/a>. added 21 points for the Nuggets, who head into the break at 35-20 despite an injury-riddled season that has seen all five starters miss time and six of their top rotation players go out for significant stretches.<\/p>\n

The Grizzlies, losers of 10 of 12, erased a 15-point fourth-quarter deficit, largely with Jokic on the bench, but never could take the late lead.<\/p>\n

Jokic reached the triple-double when he assisted Hardaway on a 3-pointer with 5 seconds left in the third quarter for a 93-81 lead.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets pulled away in the second quarter when they hit four consecutive 3-pointers to make it 44-33. But the Grizzlies scored the final seven points of the first half to pull to 60-54 at the break.<\/p>\n

They used another 7-0 run to pull to 66-65 and force a timeout at 8:58 of the third quarter. A 3-pointer by GG Jackson<\/a> II, whose 21 points led Memphis, tied it at 68 but the Grizzlies never could grab the lead.<\/p>\n

Denver coach David Adelman said Spencer Jones<\/a>, whose two-way contract hasn\u2019t been converted yet, is still \u201cat the end of the concussion protocol,” and \u201cthe negotiation that\u2019s going on there obviously is being slow-played because of the concussion.\u201d Jones is expected to sign a pro-rated contract before the Nuggets return to action following the All-Star break, one that would also allow them to sign a 15th player for the stretch run.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Grizzlies: host the Utah Jazz<\/a> on Friday, Feb. 20.<\/p>\n

Nuggets: visit the Los Angeles Clippers on Thursday, Feb. 19.<\/p>\n

—— AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER — \u2014 Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray warmed up for their appearances in the NBA’s All-Star festivities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-475853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}