SAN ANTONIO (AP) \u2014 Nikola Jokic had 31 points, 20 rebounds and 12 assists, Jamal Murray scored 38 points and the Denver Nuggets rallied to beat San Antonio 136-131 on Thursday night, snapping the Spurs\u2019 five-game winning streak as Victor Wembanyama sat out with an injury. <\/p>\n
San Antonio guard Stephon Castle had 30 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists for his third career triple-double.<\/p>\n
With the Spurs trailing 132-129, Castle had a 3-pointer rattle off the rim with 20 seconds remaining. Murray sealed the victory with four straight free throws.<\/p>\n
After trailing by 20 points early in the third quarter, Murray\u2019s 3-pointer gave Denver its first lead at 121-119 with 4:38 remaining. Murray\u2019s basket was the start of an 11-0 run. <\/p>\n
Wembanyama was questionable due to right ankle soreness and ruled out after going through pregame warmups. He must play in 13 of San Antonio\u2019s final 16 games for end-of-season award eligibility.<\/p>\n
The Spurs are 10-5 without Wembanyama, who watched from the second row of the team\u2019s bench. San Antonio lost for the first time in 22 games when holding a 20-point lead.<\/p>\n
Denver outscored San Antonio 42-25 in the fourth quarter behind Murray, Jokic, Spencer Jones, Cam Johnson and Christian Braun.<\/p>\n
Jones finished with 19 points, Johnson had 15 and Braun added 11.<\/p>\n
De\u2019Aaron Fox had 27 points and Devin Vassell scored 18 for San Antonio, which had won 16 of 17.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Nuggets: At Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Spurs: At Milwaukee on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
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AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n
The Spurs have won five straight games and 16 of their past 17 games.<\/p>\n
San Antonio is 24-8 since the calendar turned to 2026 and undefeated during an 11-game stretch in February.<\/p>\n
The Nuggets will play the second game of a back-to-back set on the heels of a 129-93 win over visiting Houston on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Jamal Murray led Denver with 30 points in the victory while Christian Braun had 19, Cameron Johnson added 17 and three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic collected 16 points, 13 assists and 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n
Denver shot 55.2% from the floor and forced 15 turnovers while outscoring the Rockets by 30 points after halftime.<\/p>\n
Raul Dominguez, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO (AP) \u2014 Nikola Jokic had 31 points, 20 rebounds and 12 assists, Jamal Murray scored 38…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-532901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}