Nuggets keep rolling at home, 持つ／拘留する off 刺激（する）s 102-99
DENVER (AP) - Jamal Murray and the Denver Nuggets keep 権利 on rolling. Not just ankles, either.
Murray 得点する／非難する／２０d 31 points にもかかわらず turning his 権利 ankle late in the fourth ４半期/4分の1, Monte Morris 攻撃する，衝突する two big 解放する／自由な throws with 7.2 seconds remaining and the Nuggets held off the San Antonio 刺激（する）s 102-99 on Friday night to 延長する their home winning streak to eight.
After the game, Murray 緩和するd into his dress shoe, wincing in 苦痛.
"Feeling 広大な／多数の／重要な," he said. "Feeling sensational."
Murray wasn't the only one to land wrong. Malik Beasley had 21 points, but rolled his left ankle on a 運動 in the fourth ４半期/4分の1. He made two 解放する／自由な throws before 出口ing.
"I'll be good. I'm a mutant," Beasley pronounced. "I'll be all 権利."
San Antonio 刺激（する）s 今後 LaMarcus Aldridge, left, competes for 支配（する）／統制する of a loose ball with Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray during the second half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Dec. 28, 2018, in Denver. The Nuggets won 102-99. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Nikola Jokic 追加するd 21 points, nine 回復するs and nine 補助装置s before fouling out as the Nuggets nearly squandered an 18-point, first-half lead. Bryn Forbes had a 3-point look to tie the game in the final second but couldn't get it 開始する，打ち上げるd in time over Trey Lyles.
"We try to show our guys what we think they're going to run, to give them an 認識／意識性," coach Mic hael Malone said.
Just then, 刺激（する）s coach Gregg Popovich walked by and playfully lobbed in his thoughts.
"Love you, too," Malone 割れ目d as Popovich continued 負かす／撃墜する the hallway.
LaMarcus Aldridge finished with 24 points for San Antonio, while DeMar DeRozan 追加するd 15.
The 刺激（する）s, the 最高の，を越す 解放する／自由な throw 狙撃 team in the league, went 4 of 8 from the line over the final 1:48. They were 11 of 20 for the game.
"非，不，無 of us go out there and 行方不明になる 解放する／自由な throws," DeRozan said. "We've been 広大な／多数の／重要な all year. We gave ourselves countless 適切な時期s to be able to take the lead, tie the game up and give ourselves a 広大な／多数の／重要な chance to 勝利，勝つ."
It was the second game of a home-and-home between the teams. The 刺激（する）s won 111-103 in San Antonio on Wednesday. In that game, DeRozan and Aldridge 連合させるd for 57 points.
"They're a good team over there. They play 井戸／弁護士席 together, they move the ball, so we had to take some things away," Aldridge said.
The Nuggets remained 百分率 points ahead of Golden 明言する／公表する for the 最高の，を越す 示す in the Western 会議／協議会 にもかかわらず 行方不明の starters Paul Millsap, Will Barton and Gary Harris 予定 to 傷害s.
San Antonio turned up the 弁護 in the second half to climb 支援する into the game. 追跡するing 100-98 with 28 seconds remaining, Derrick White made one of two 解放する／自由な throws. Morris then was fouled on a 運動 to the basket and made both. Morris finished with seven points, five 回復するs and seven 補助装置s.
"The littlest guy on the 床に打ち倒す, least experienced guy on the 床に打ち倒す coming up in big, big ways time and time again," Malone said.
TIP-INS
刺激（する）s: F/C Pau Gasol (権利 foot) made the trip with the team and is getting closer to a return. ... Popovich called a timeout just 46 seconds into the game.
Nuggets: Harris (権利 hip) and Millsap (fractured 権利 big toe) are 近づくing a return. ... Mason Plumlee had 13 回復するs.
HOMECOMING
White grew up in the area and played a season at the University of Colorado. He's gone from sporadica lly playing for the 刺激（する）s last season - he also helped the Austin 刺激（する）s 勝利，勝つ the 2018 G League 選手権 - to becoming their starting guard.
White had 10 points on Friday.
"He's just a young man who's 伸び（る）ing 信用／信任 day by day," Popovich said. "Just believing he belongs is really the important thing for him."
DIFFERENT STRATEGY
Jokic drew a （人が）群がる, but kept finding the open player before fouling out with 1:33 left. That was a 出発 from Wednesday when he was held to four points.
"It's like a プレーオフ series where you make 調整s," Murray said. "We made some 重要な 調整s to give him some space to work."
MURRAY'S DETERMINATION
Seeing Murray in 苦痛 after turning his ankle, Malone was going to send in Morris.
"I saw him running toward the corner, like he was going to the tunnel," Malone said. "He pulled a Willis Reed on us and did a U-turn and （機の）カム 支援する on the 法廷，裁判所."
Murray said there was never a 疑問 he would keep playing.
UP NEXT
刺激（する）s: Visit the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday.
Nuggets: At 不死鳥／絶品 on Saturday. The Nuggets are 3-0 in the second game of a 支援する-to-支援する this season.
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San Antonio 刺激（する）s 中心 Jakob Poeltl, left, fights for 支配（する）／統制する of a loose ball with Denver Nuggets 今後 Mason Plumlee in the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Dec. 28, 2018, in Denver. (AP Photo /David Zalubowski)
Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray 反応するs after 新たな展開ing his 権利 ankle during the second half of the team's NBA basketball game against the San Antonio 刺激（する）s on Friday, Dec. 28, 2018, in Denver. The Nuggets won 102-99. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray, 権利, 運動s to the 逮捕する past San Antonio 刺激（する）s 今後 Davis Bertans in the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Dec. 28, 2018, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
San Antonio 刺激（する）s guard DeMar DeRozan, 前線, 追求するs the ball with Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray in the first half of an NBA basketball gsm Friday, Dec. 28, 2018, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
San Antonio 刺激（する）s 今後 LaMarcus Aldridge, 前線 left, 作品 the ball inside as Denver Nuggets 今後 Mason Plumlee defends in the first half of an NBA basketball gsm Friday, Dec. 28, 2018, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Denver Nuggets 中心 Nikola Jokic, 支援する, goes up for a basket over San Antonio 刺激（する）s 今後 LaMarcus Aldridge in the first half of an NBA basketball gsm Friday, Dec. 28, 2018, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
San Antonio 刺激（する）s 今後 Rudy Gay saves the ball from bouncing out of play as he runs into fans in the courtside seats in the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Denver Nuggets, Friday, Dec. 28, 2018, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
