Bennett Durando is the Denver Nuggets beat writer for The Denver Post. Before moving to Colorado, where he started as The Post's Avalanche beat writer, he covered SEC football, basketball and other sports for five years: first reporting on his alma mater, Missouri, for the St.
Dallas Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving shoots the winning final-second basket against Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic, top center right, defends in an NBA basketball game in Dallas, Sunday, March 17, 2024. DALLAS — Thirteen times in 13 games since the All-Star break, the Denver Nuggets have held a lead in the last 30 seconds of regulation.
Jokic was the defender contesting Irving’s game-winner from behind the right elbow. The low-percentage shot was a result of respectable defense by Denver on the final out-of-bounds play, which could have gone to Irving or Luka Doncic. Both Dallas guards started in a cluster of bodies on the left wing, but Kentavious Caldwell-Pope fronted Doncic effectively enough and long enough to force the ball to Irving. He was coming around a screen down on the baseline. Jokic recognized it and reacted.
The 5-0 closing run by the Mavericks snapped a five-game win streak for Denver, mirroring Kevin Durant’s late game-tying three that forced overtime and broke up a six-game surge earlier in March.
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