{"id":536105,"date":"2026-03-21T05:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/536105\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T05:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:04:08","slug":"nuggets-121-115-raptors-mar-20-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/536105\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets 121-115 Raptors (Mar 20, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3936299\/jamal-murray\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamal Murray<\/a> scored 31 points, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3112335\/nikola-jokic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikola Jokic<\/a> made a go-ahead jumper with 45 seconds left and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/den\/denver-nuggets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> held on for a 121-115 victory over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-raptors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>              Jokic finished with 22 points and nine rebounds, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/2528210\/tim-hardaway-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Hardaway Jr<\/a>. had 23 points and shot 7 of 10 from 3-point range and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3064290\/aaron-gordon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Gordon<\/a> added 16 points for the Nuggets, who improved to 8-8 since the All-Star break.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3134908\/jakob-poeltl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jakob Poeltl<\/a> scored 23 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for the Raptors, who had a three-game winning streak snapped. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3913176\/brandon-ingram\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Ingram<\/a> added 19 points and R.J. Barrett had 18.<\/p>\n<p>              The Nuggets trailed 101-98 before Hardaway tied it with a 3-pointer with 7:27 remaining. Denver was up 115-110 with 1:43 left, but the Raptors got right back into it.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4433134\/scottie-barnes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scottie Barnes<\/a>, who finished with 15 points, had a layup with 1:32 remaining. Poeltl three-point play on a layup and free throw after he was fouled by Jokic tied it at 115 with 60 seconds left.<\/p>\n<p>              But the Nuggets closed with a 6-0 run to seal the victory. Jokic had a turnaround jumper, Murray made three free throws and Gordon made one of his own to cap it.<\/p>\n<p>              Up next&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              Raptors: Play at Phoenix on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>              Nuggets: Host Portland on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>              \u2014<\/p>\n<p>              AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER &#8212; \u2014 Jamal Murray scored 31 points, Nikola Jokic made a go-ahead jumper with 45 seconds left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-536105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}