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Jokic and Murray both have ３倍になる-（テニスなどの）ダブルス, Nuggets （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Heat 109-94 for 2-1 lead

Published: 04:15 BST, 8 June 2023 | Updated: 05:06 BST, 8 June 2023

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MIAMI (AP) - Never had two players from the same team had 30-point ３倍になる-（テニスなどの）ダブルス in the same game. Never in the 正規の／正選手 season. Never in the プレーオフs. Certainly never in the NBA 決勝戦.

Until now.

Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray made history Wednesday night - and have the Denver Nuggets two 勝利，勝つs away from making some real history 同様に.

Jokic and Murray became the first チーム仲間s in NBA 決勝戦 history to both 記録，記録的な／記録する３倍になる-（テニスなどの）ダブルス, and the Nuggets 埋め立てるd the lead in the series by （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域ing the Miami Heat 109-94 in Game 3.

"By far, their greatest 業績／成果 as a 二人組 in their seven years together," Nuggets coach Michael Malone said, after his team moved two 勝利，勝つs away from Denver's first 肩書を与える.

Jokic finished with 32 points, 21 回復するs and 10 補助装置s - the first such game in NBA 決勝戦 history, or at least the first since 補助装置s were 跡をつけるd. Murray had 34 points, 10 回復するs and 10 補助装置s, getting the 回復する he needed with 9 seconds remaining.

Denver Nuggets 中心 Nikola Jokic (15) 運動s to the basket over Miami Heat 今後 Kevin Love (42) during the second half of Game 3 of the NBA 決勝戦 basketball game, Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

The Nuggets outrebounded the Heat 58-33, and took a 2-1 lead. Game 4 is Friday in Miami.

"I´m just glad that we won the game," Jokic said. "It was a big one for us because they won in our 円形競技場. We just didn´t want to go 負かす／撃墜する 2-1."

Jimmy Butler 得点する／非難する／２０d 28 points for Miami, and Bam Adebayo finished with 22 points and 17 回復するs. Caleb ツバメ追加するd 10 points.

"We've got to come out with more energy and 成果／努力 and that's correctable," Butler said. "That's on us as a group."

Jokic and Murray 連合させるd for 24 field goals; Miami had 34. Jokic and Murray 連合させるd for 31 回復するs; Miami had 33. Jokic and Murray 連合させるd for 20 補助装置s; Miami had 正確に／まさに that many.

Somehow, some way, the Heat know they need to find an answer before Friday.

"It's not an 平易な仕事 to do," Butler said. "But if we want to 勝利，勝つ, we're going to have to 人物／姿／数字 it out."

Miami has been the 復帰 kings of these プレーオフs - seven 決起大会／結集させるs in games after 追跡するing by at least 12 points. The Heat were 負かす／撃墜する by 14 going into the fourth, and Malone reminded his club of Miami´s penchant for 復帰s.

"First two games, they won the fourth ４半期/4分の1," Malone said. "Tonight, we 勝利，勝つ the fourth ４半期/4分の1, we 勝利，勝つ the game."

His team li stened.

The lead 結局 reached 21, the 結果 never 本気で in 疑問, and Jokic looking very much like he's 支援する in 巡航する支配（する）／統制する. The Heat got within nine on a 3-pointer by Duncan Robinson with 1:22 left, but there was no epic finish for Miami. Murray and Jokic had the Nuggets too far ahead to get caught.

"You have to 推定する／予想する there to be エリート talent in the 決勝戦," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "And both those guys are エリート-level talent."

公式に, Jokic is now the seventh player to have two ３倍になる-（テニスなどの）ダブルス in the same 決勝戦. 魔法 Johnson and LeBron James each did it in three different 決勝戦. Draymond Green, Wilt Chamberlain, Larry Bird and Butler all had one 肩書を与える series with two ３倍になる-（テニスなどの）ダブルス.

It was Jokic's 10th ３倍になる-二塁打 of these プレーオフs, 延長するing his 選び出す／独身-season 記録，記録的な／記録する, and he was unbothered by whatever Miami threw his way. He finished 12 for 21 from the 床に打ち倒す, 7 for 8 from the line, playing 44 minutes.

"We were more locked in, more 焦点（を合わせる）d," Jokic said.

Christian Braun was tremendous off the （法廷の）裁判 for the Nuggets, 得点する／非難する／２０ing 15 points on 7-for-8 狙撃 in 19 minutes. Aaron Gordon 追加するd 11 for Denver.

And afterward, they both marveled at what their 星／主役にするs did in Game 3.

"It´s greatness, man. It´s greatness," Gordon said. "That´s a dynamic 二人組権利 there."

追加するd Braun: "I would say that it´s what they do every game."

Miami never led in the second half. A dunk by Adebayo put the Heat up 44-42 with 3:18 left in the half, before a 3-pointer by Murray 代表するd the seventh and final lead change of the night. It was 53-48 at halftime, before Denver 押し進めるd the lead to 二塁打 digits for the first time 早期に in the third and 負傷させる up 主要な by as many as 19 later in that period.

The Heat stole home 法廷，裁判所 by winning Game 2 in Denver, a game where Murray had a chance to 軍隊 overtime with a 3-point try that 行方不明になるd at the end. The Nuggets now have the lead again, and there was no Game 2 hangover on Wednesday.

"Not just me," Murray said. "Everybody bounced 支援する."

TIP-INS

Nuggets: Denver used Reggie Jackson in the first ４半期/4分の1, going nine 深い in the 開始 12 minutes for the first time since Game 2 of the West 決勝戦. ... Denver hadn´t lost two 連続した games to Miami since March 14 and Nov. 30, 2016. Jokic played in both of those games, Murray in the second one 早期に in his 新人 season.

Heat: It was the first 決勝戦 game in Miami since 2014. The Heat didn´t have any "home" games in the 2020 決勝戦, which were held in the NBA´s 再開する泡近づく Orlando. ... Wednesday was the 11th 周年記念日 of LeBron James' 45-point, 15-回復する, five-補助装置 game at Boston in Game 6 of the East 決勝戦 - 突き破るing off 排除／予選. The Heat won Game 7 and went on to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Oklahoma City for James' first 肩書を与える.

HASLEM RECORD

Miami´s Udonis Haslem - in his 20th and final season - 始める，決める a 記録，記録的な／記録する. He became the oldest player to appear in the NBA 決勝戦, breaking the 示す of 42 years, 58 days 始める，決める by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on June 13, 1989.

Haslem turns 43 on Friday. He played the final 29.8 seconds.

RARE COMPANY

Jokic had 10 points, seven 回復するs and three 補助装置s in the first ４半期/4分の1. The only other players in the last 25 years to have that in any ４半期/4分の1 of a 決勝戦 game were Stephen Curry (12-7-5) for Golden 明言する／公表する in the third ４半期/4分の1 against Cleveland on June 4, 2017, and Shaquille O´Neal (12-7-3) for the Los Angeles Lakers in the second qu arter against Philadelphia on June 8, 2001.

CELEB WATCH

Former Heat player and NBA 支持する／優勝者マイク Miller - now an スパイ／執行官 - was at the game, along with one of his （弁護士の）依頼人s, 新人 of the Year Paolo Banchero of the Orlando 魔法. Banchero tweeted "game ain´t even started yet i´m in here 星／主役にする struck."

DJ Khaled was in 出席, along with サッカー広大な／多数の／重要なs Neymar and Paul Pogba (on the day Lionel Messi committed to play for の間の Miami), Shakira, 魔法 Johnson, J. Cole (who played a 役割 in getting Caleb ツバメ to the Heat) and Dwyane Wade - who starred for Miami´s 肩書を与える teams in 2006, 2012 and 2013.

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Miami Heat guard Kyle Lowry (7) and 中心 Bam Adebayo (13) defend Denver Nuggets 中心 Nikola Jokic (15) during the first half of Game 3 of the NBA 決勝戦 basketball game, Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Denver Nuggets 中心 Nikola Jokic (15) 運動s to the basket as Miami Heat guard Max Strus (31) 試みる／企てるs to defend during the first half of Game 3 of the NBA 決勝戦 basketball game, Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo 物陰／風下)

Miami Heat 中心 Bam Adebayo (13) dunks the ball over Denver Nuggets 中心 Nikola Jokic (15) during the first half of Game 3 of the NBA 決勝戦 basketball game, Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo 物陰／風下)

Miami Heat 今後 Jimmy Butler (22) 運動s to the basket as Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray (27) defends during the first half of Game 3 of the NBA 決勝戦 basketball game, Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Miami Heat 今後 Jimmy Butler (22) 運動s to the basket as Denver Nuggets 中心 Nikola Jokic (15) defends during the first half of Game 3 of the NBA 決勝戦 basketball game, Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo 物陰／風下)

Miami Heat 中心 Bam Adebayo (13) dunks the ball over Denver Nuggets 今後 Jeff Green (32) during the first half of Game 3 of the NBA 決勝戦 basketball game, Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo 物陰／風下)

Miami Heat 中心 Bam Adebayo (13) 運動s to the basket as Denver Nuggets 今後 Aaron Gordon (50) defends during the first half of Game 3 of the NBA 決勝戦 basketball game, Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)