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INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2014 James Harden had 28 points and eight assists in an outstanding bounce-back performance, Kawhi Leonard added 27 points and the Los Angeles Clippers forced a seventh game in their first-round NBA playoff series with a 111-105 victory over the Denver Nuggets in Game 6 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Norman Powell scored 24 points for the Clippers, who rebounded from back-to-back losses with an impressive effort at new Intuit Dome. <\/p>\n
Los Angeles took control in the second half while playing tenacious defense on Nikola Jokic, who scored 20 of his 25 points in the first half.<\/p>\n
\u201cI give our guys credit for just staying with it,\u201d Clippers coach Tyronn Lue said. \u201c[They] don\u2019t get deflated, and we did a good job. \u2026 I told the guys after the game, it\u2019s about being a team and whatever it takes to win. Those guys totally understood it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Game 7 is Saturday in Denver.<\/p>\n
Jamal Murray scored 21 points for the Nuggets, who lost a potential series-clinching playoff game for the fourth time in five tries over the past two seasons since their 2023 championship run. <\/p>\n
Denver also blew a 3-2 series lead over Minnesota in the second round last season.<\/p>\n
The Nuggets haven\u2019t won a Game 7 since 2020, when they ousted the Clippers from the conference semifinals in the Florida bubble.<\/p>\n
The Clippers were pushed to this comeback win by the 35-year-old Harden, who played aggressively and craftily after receiving criticism for a passive effort in Game 5. <\/p>\n
Leonard also stepped up, with the two-time NBA champion adding 10 rebounds and five assists in an assertive outing.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was win or go home, so there were opportunities to be aggressive, and I took them,\u201d Harden said. \u201cOne more game. \u2026 We didn\u2019t want to go home. We\u2019ve got one more game left.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ivica Zubac and Nicolas Batum teamed up for a surprisingly effective defensive effort on the typically unguardable Jokic. <\/p>\n
The three-time MVP was held scoreless for 11 minutes in the third quarter and went only 2 for 9 in the second half.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles led by 15 with less than six minutes to play, but Denver made an 11-2 run to trim the Clippers\u2019 lead to 107-101 before Powell buried a 3-pointer with 1:47 left.<\/p>\n
Powell\u2019s clutch bucket was Los Angeles\u2019 only field goal in the final 5:57, but the Clips hung on with defense. <\/p>\n
Russell Westbrook missed a layup under pressure and had another layup blocked on consecutive possessions in the final minutes, and Zubac blocked a layup attempt by Jokic with 24 seconds left.<\/p>\n
After falling into a 2-1 series hole and then blowing a 22-point lead in the fourth quarter of Game 4, the Nuggets still won at Intuit Dome five days ago on Aaron Gordon\u2019s incredible dunk at the buzzer. <\/p>\n
Denver rode that momentum to a comfortable win in Game 5 with 43 points from Murray.<\/p>\n
After the Clippers folded down the stretch Tuesday, Lue took the rare step of checking in with his players by phone on their off day, saying he \u201ctook a lot of temperatures\u201d to make sure they were mentally ready to fight for their playoff lives.<\/p>\n
The Clippers team that stormed into the playoffs with eight straight wins and 18 in 21 answered Lue\u2019s calls in Game 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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