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A shorthanded Denver Nuggets squad went more than six and a half minutes without a point in the third quarter Wednesday night on the road against the Boston Celtics.
David Adelman's Nuggets endured that scoring drought, which featured 11 straight missed field-goal attempts and was accompanied by a 12-0 Celtics run, and soon enough was back to swapping leads with one of the hottest teams in the NBA.
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In the fourth quarter, Denver delivered a run of its own that dug Boston a hole it couldn't quite climb out of, and the resilient Nuggets pulled off the momentum swing with centers Nikola Jokić and Jonas Valančiūnas as well as forward Cam Johnson still sidelined.
Unsung heroes stepped up, as was the case in an overtime win versus the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday. This time, Jamal Murray picked up where he left off in Brooklyn over the weekend. He followed up his 16-assist outing against the Nets with a career-high 17 assists in a 114-110 win against the Celtics.
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