Lakers 111-113 Nuggets Highlights, Game 4: Denver completes sweep, advances to maiden NBA Finals

That’s the first NBA Finals selaed for the Nuggets. Coach Michael Malone has done it for Denver.

Lakers led by 15 at the half-way mark. LeBron James stormed his way to 31 points in the opening half. But Western Conference Finals MVP, Nikola Jokic, brought his side back into the game.

Lakers continued to push and persuade but fell just short in the end. It’s is party time in the Mile High City as the Nuggets await their opponent in the summit clash.

LeBron misses the shot. It is game over for Lakers. The Nuggets are headed to the NBA Finals.

He gets the ball on the perimeter and drives all the way to the rim. Murray and Gordon double team him and prevent the shot.

Reaves to inbound. LeBron is guarded by Gordon.

MURRAY MISSES THE SHOT ON NUGGETS POSSESSION. Clutch defence by Schroder. LeBron gets the rebound and Lakers call a timeout.

Four second for Lakers to make that shot and get level.

Reaves to inbound the ball. LeBron is able to get the ball and take the shot but misses.

Lakers get an inbound with 3.6 left on the shot clock.

Darvin Ham calls a timeout instead. 31.3 seconds in the game.

Jokic with a drive and a shot over Davis. 30 points for the Joker.

Murray loses the ball on the dribble and it goes out of bounds. The refs give it as Lakers ball first but change it later.

Davis makes the two shots to tie the ball game.

Davis will go to the line after Gordon pulled him on the possession. Both teams have bonus now.

A shot clock violation by the Nuggets. Lakers with the chance to snatch the lead now.

Hachimura with a steal from Jokic but it came off his foot. Nuggets retain the ball.

Davis makes botht the shots from the line. Clutch shots with less than two minutes to go.

Murray fouls Davis on a lay up and two FTs for the Lakers man will follow.

Gordon is able to make only one free throw.

Gordon is fouled on a dunk and he will take two more free throws.

Reaves with a three point shot. He makes the catch and shoot play and runs back to the defensive end.

JOKIC WITH A BUZZER BEATER! A jump shot. Hits it on the turn over Davis. The shot was originally given as two but later changed to three.

LeBron cuts inside past Jokic and gets the lay up to go. 40 points for LeBron.

Gordon misses the free throw!

Jokic with a dime for Gordon. He dunks it in and draws a foul from Reaves.

A timeout called after which we will have the free throw.

LeBron locks out Murray with clutch defence. Forces a shot clock violation.

Schroder misses a three pointer.

Murray connects from the all the three shots from the line.

Time left in the game: 4:43

Davis with a foul on Murray. The Nuggets was player was taking a three so that means three free throws for him.

We resume with 5 minutes left in the game.

DAVIS TIES THE BALL GAME! He gets to an offensive rebound over Jokic and then dunks the ball in. The crowd erupts as the Nuggets take a timeout.

Another offensive foul by Jokic! It is LeBron again who puts his body on the line.

Davis with a floater. LeBron has the ball in the paint but he is double teamed. LeBron plays the pass to Davis who finds the net.

Jokic with an offensive foul on LeBron. That’s the fourth personal for the Nuggets player.

Schroder misses a jump shot and Porter collects the rebound.

Jokic fights LeBron for the ball in the post. Keeps the ball from him and then knocks down the shot.

DAVIS! HE BLOCKS A SHOT BY JOKIC! Massive play by Davis.

Lakers take a timeout.

Davis cuts the deficit back to two points.

Murray with a floater from the paint.

Schroder with a pick and roll and a lay up past Green.

Brown makes both the free throws and the Nuggets open a four-point lead.

Brown is again open under the rim. This time he is fouled before he makes the shot.

Jokic with a feed to Brown who makes the shot off the glass.

Russell! He ties the ball game with a jump shot from the post.

Nuggets take a timeout.

LeBron is able to make only one free throw.

LeBron is fouled by Brown on a lay up in transition. He will head to the line.

Lonnie Walker is wide open on the perimeter but he steps on the line and gives a turnover.

Tristan Thompson with a dunk to start the final quarter. He is fouled too but cannot convert the three point chance.

Jokic leads the turnaround for Denver Nuggets. From a 15 point deficit to a five point lead, the Nuggets can smell the NBA Finals. LeBron’s scoring cooled down in the third but he still provided points at important stages to keep the Lakers in the hunt. A mouth-watering final quarter awaits.

LeBron with a dribble past Jokic at the arc and a lay up to get his 37th point.

Jokic misses one free throw. A seven point lead for Nuggets.

Jokic is able to draw contact from Davis. That’s the third personal for Lakers’ centre. Two FTs for Nuggets.

Bruce Brown with a lay up to get his first points of the night.

Gordon! He makes a three point shot over Davis.

LeBron with a shot over Murray from the paint.

Jokic fails to collect a defensive rebound. The ball goes out of bounds and Lakers keep the possession.

Jokic with a floater with one hand over Hachimura.

LeBron gets inside the paint and scoops in.

Porter with another three point shot. He has 15 in the game today.

LeBron with control in the post. Porter gets the ball from him but fails to control it.

LeBron plays it to Davis who banks it home off the glass.

KCP knocks down the free throw.

Nuggets have their first lead of the game. Jokic sees a back door cut by KCP and plays the ball to him. A lay up to end the point and a foul by Davis gets Nuggets a three point chance.

Lakers call a timeout.

Porter off the glass after a shot over Hachimura.

LeBron slaps the ball away from Gordon’s hands under the rim.

Reaves with a fade away shot.

Murray with a pull up shot to make it a one-point game.

Hachimura with a foul on Jokic while the Nuggets player is attempting a three point shot.

Jokic makes all three FTs that follow.

LeBron with a pick and roll move frees Schroder who knocks down a floater.

Jokic with a tip in on a second ball. He is fouled in process and makes it a three point play.

Gordon has no Lakers player coming to close him out. He is wide open on the arc and makes a three pointer.

Reaves is fouled on a shot at the other end. He takes two free throws and knocks them down.

Davis with a rejection! He denies a lay up to Gordon.

Jokic with a simpel tip in. At the defensive end, he blocks Davis moments earlier.

Lakers take a timeout as their lead is diminished to eight points.

Nuggets with points from transition. Porter banks the ball home.

Murray with a free throw followed by a jump shot from close to the perimeter.

Reaves with a jump shot from mid-range.

Davis with a steal from Godron on his attempt to dunk.

Jokic starts the quarter with a turn and shoot move from the post.

LeBron James show at the Crypto.com Arena tonight! 31 points in the first half. He’s been on court every second of the first two quarters. Backs against the wall and LeBron rises to the occassion. Hachimura is the next best scorer for Lakers with 10.

The Nuggets have found points from Murray and Jokic. Godron and KCP too have contributed but they remain the second-best in the opening half.

Lakers particulary exploiting the paint. 34 off the 45 shots for the home team have come from the paint. All the right indicators from a team that is playing to save the series.

Davis makes both free throws and the lead is now 15 points.

KCP commits a foul on Davis and Lakers will have two more FTs.

LeBron gets the two free throws for the foul by Jokic. Reaves converts the additional one for the technical.

Michael Malone is fuming after a foul is called on Jokic. Malone is given a technical foul.

Gordon with a dunk on an aerial ball from Jokic.

Davis converts only one free throw.

LeBron with a brilliant find for Davis. He goes in the air and plays the ball to Davis on the bounce. Jokic fouls the Lakers centre and the home team will have two free throws.

Davis makes both the free throws.

Murray with a foul trying to contest a rebound. The Lakers have the bonus and Davis wil shoot free throws.

Porter! He knocks down a three from the corner.

Reaves with a drive to the rim and a lay up to finish.

Jokic with antoher two points.

Hachimura with a shot over Murray.

Gordon with a wide open three from the corner. Hits! Set by KCP.

Hachimura will shoot two more free throws after a foul. Makes both the shots.

Murray gets close to the rim and fires the ball in on the run.

LeBron! A spin around Jokic and a shot off the glass.

Hachimura with a dribble into the paint. He gets a lay up past Jokic and from under the rim.

Jokic with a three point shot over Hachimura.

LeBron with a tip in after a missed shot from Hachimura. This is the biggest lead of the series for Lakers.

Nuggets with a free throw earlier for a technical foul.

Denver calls another timeout.

Schroder with another three point shot. Reaves with the dime.

Hachimura is fouled and he makes two free throws.

Murray with two points from Nuggets.

Schroder hits a three. He is wide open and uses that to get his second three pointer of the game.

Murray with a bullet pass to Gordon who dunks it in from under the rim.

LeBron with a drive past Jokic and a lay up finish.

Jokic holds the ball against Tristan Thompson in the post. A turn and shot to follow.

Aaron Gordon and LeBron James are handed a technical foul each. They have an arguement after Gordon appeared to grab hold of LeBron’s arm.

JOKIC! That is unreal! He is double teamed and is being forced back. He reaches the arc and just hangs the ball in the air. Teases its way into the net.

Schroder fouls Jokic, and that is the third personal for him.

LeBron with a drive past two Nuggets players and a lay up.

Michael Malone calls a timeout for Nuggets.

LeBron with a steal on the defensive end. Turns the tranisition and sets up a dunk for Thompson.

Reaves with a dribble which draws out Green out of his position. He takes the shots, makes it and draws a foul too. Hits the following free throw.

Murray with a step back and then a fade away to make the shot from the paint.

Lonnie Walker with a fade away shot over Gordon.

Porter with a three. Murray with the kick out pass from under the rim to set that up.

LeBron James has come out all guns blazing. With 21 points, which included three three-pointers has catapulted the Lakers into a lead. Nuggets, to their credit, have done well to be just six points down. More of this please, King James.

Jeff Green is fouled by Lonnie Walker. Green goes to the line and makes both the shots.

Russell with a teardrop finish after a dribble into the post.

Murray with a fade away shot from the corner.

LeBron James with anothr three. Keep em counting! He has 21 now.

Murray with a scooped shot from close range.

Murray misfires from the distance. Was a catch and shoot move set by Jokic.

LeBron from donwtown. 18 points for him in the first quarter.

Jeff Green rejects a lay up shot from LeBron.

LeBron James! He blocks Porter with his shoulder. This allows him to stand his ground in the post. He jumps and takes a shot. Makes it and draws a foul too. Converts the three point play.

Porter connects from both the free throw attempts.

Porter goes to the ground after he is fouled by Davis on a shot. He will shoot free throws.

Lakers take a timeout.

KCP with his third three pointer for the night.

Gordon with a dunk off Jokic’s pass.

LeBron from downtown! He gets a dish from Russeel at the corner. Eight straight points for LeBron.

LeBron with another shot. This time from the paint. Nine points for him so far.

LEBRON! He is at the perimeter when he sees Hachimura near the rim. He throws the ball up for an alley-oop. The ball ends up going through the net.

Davis gets an offensive rebound but his shot is blocked by Jokic.

Jokic thuds the ball off the glass and hits.

Davis with a bucket from close range.

Gordon tips in after a shot by Jokic hangs on the rim. The Nuggets have ties the ball game.

KCP makes a three point shot from the left. He is fouled on the jump and converts the four-point play chance with a free throw.

LeBron takes on Gordon. He drives in from the right and lays it in.

KCP with a three from the right wing.

Schroder fouls Murray from behind and Nuggets get an inbounds.

Nuggets resume with a missed three from Murray.

Reaves gets a lay up in from a transition. Schroder gets the steal from Murray to make that play.

Lakers go seven ahead and the Nuggets call a timeout.

Hachimura attacks the rim. Gets the ball and lays it in after a dribble.

Murray with a floater to hit the shot.

LeBron makes both the free throws.

Porter with a block! He denies LeBron on a dunk. But it’s been given as a foul as Porter hit him on the hand.

Schroder hits a three from the right wing.

Gordon with a mid-range jump shot. An assist by Jokic.

Porter with a block on Hachimura’s shot.

Davis with the first points. He jumps to his left in the paint and makes the shot.

Reaves starts with a three but falls short.

Lakers get the first possession of the game.

Rui Hachimura replaces D’Angelo Russell in the Lakers starting lineup.

LeBron James rarely puts a foot wrong in a game. But this series has seen him struggle to make three-point shots. Especially in the fourth quarter. In the three games against the Nuggets so far, LeBron has made just two of the 24 shots he has attempted.

Russell has had a horrid time this series, failing to make an impact on the offensive end.

In the three games, Russell has scored 8, 10 and 3 points, respectively. He is shooting at 29.6%.

The four-time NBA winner has twice been on teams that have been swept.

1. NBA Finals 2007 vs San Antonio Spurs

2. NBA Finals 2018 vs Golden State Warriors

On both these occasions, LeBron was playing for Cleveland Cavaliers.

• Lakers 126-132 Nuggets
• Lakers 105-111 Nuggets
• Nuggets 119-108 Lakers

Where will the Lakers vs Nuggets NBA Playoffs series be telecast on TV in India?

The Los Angeles Lakers vs Denver Nuggets NBA Playoffs series will be telecast on Sports18, Sports18 HD and MTV in India.

Game 4 will be telecast on Tuesday, May 23, starting 06:00 AM.

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The entire series can also be watched on NBA.com with an NBA League Pass.

Where will the Lakers vs Nuggets NBA Playoffs series be telecast on TV in the United States?

The Los Angeles Lakers vs Denver Nuggets NBA Playoffs series will be telecast on ESPN in the United States.

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No team has ever turned around a 0-3 deficit in the NBA Playoffs and that precisely the challenge that Los Angeles Lakers is confronted by.

Riding on a prolific Jamal Murray and a dependent Nikola Jokic, Denver Nuggets is one win away from its first NBA Finals appearance.

While the first two games in Denver stretched right down to the wire, the third was a comfortable win for the Nuggets. And that too on the road.

Lakers coach Darvin Ham still feels his team has a chance in the series. It takes four games to win after all, he says. While dreaming of holding out for the next four might be a distant reality for now, the Lakers will surely take their home court on Monday with hopes of forcing a fifth game back in Denver.