{"id":562022,"date":"2026-03-26T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/562022\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:19:08","slug":"jokic-murray-put-up-historic-numbers-together-in-nuggets-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/562022\/","title":{"rendered":"Jokic, Murray, put up historic numbers together in Nuggets’ win"},"content":{"rendered":"

DENVER (AP) \u2014 Jamal Murray<\/a> and Nikola Jokic<\/a> have had historic games for the Denver Nuggets<\/a> before, but rarely do they occur on the same night.<\/p>\n

Wednesday was one of those rare nights for the franchise cornerstones.<\/p>\n

Murray scored a season-high 53 points and Jokic had his 30th triple-double of the season with 23 points, 21 points and 19 assists in a 142-135 win over the Dallas Mavericks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Denver is the first team in NBA history to have one player with 50 points and another with at least 15 points, 15 rebounds and 15 assists in the same game.<\/p>\n

It was reminiscent of Game 3 of the 2023 NBA Finals when both players had 30-point triple-doubles at Miami to take control of that series. Wednesday night came on the second night of a back-to-back when tipoff was 16 hours after the team landed in Denver after winning in Phoenix.<\/p>\n

\u201cFifty-three from your point guard and 23, 21, 19 from your center. Just outrageous numbers from the best tandem in the NBA,\u201d coach David Adelman said. \u201cThey really are the history book of this franchise when it comes to the longevity together, and also the playoffs and all these wars they\u2019ve been through in a basketball sense, it\u2019s just super special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jokic\u2019s career started in 2015-16 a year after being drafted 41st overall, and Murray broke in a year later as the seventh overall pick. They have won 400 games together over the last 10 seasons, including the playoffs, the most in the NBA as teammates.<\/p>\n

They reached the postseason two years after first sharing the court and won the franchise\u2019s first NBA title four years later.<\/p>\n

Their bond has continued to grow, and Jokic is appreciative of the journey<\/p>\n

\u201cHow we both started, the path that we had, from nobody to somebody into a championship \u2014 and still growing and still performing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The two are leading the Nuggets back to the playoffs this year and showing what they can do when both are playing at a high level.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like our best chemistry is when we\u2019re not (both playing well),\u201d said Murray, who was two points shy of his career high. \u201cSometimes he\u2019s having a rough day and I\u2019ll pick up the slack, and then there\u2019s days when I\u2019m not doing anything and he takes over. There\u2019s not tug-of-war with the ball; there\u2019s no animosity of who\u2019s shooting it.\u201d<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n

Michael Kelly, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER (AP) \u2014 Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic have had historic games for the Denver Nuggets before, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-562022","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\/562022","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=562022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}