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And it felt like in some ways the Denver Nuggets were doing their best to choke away that game here on Tuesday night, heading into Wednesday morning against the Phoenix

Suns, but they escape with a victory in the Valley.

Your final score here tonight, Denver 125, Phoenix 123.

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They pick it up in the second quarter. But I think the turning point in this game, and it's weird because

it's kind of like a negative for Denver in a way, but they win the game is that last little

sequence there with about two minutes left to play in the game. Yokoch, it's a nice ISO bucket,

puts Denver up 120 to 115 in that moment.

And then you get two pretty bad fouls from Cam Johnson.

And I don't really know how it's described the fouls from Cam Johnson other than you

just can't really do that in that situation.

And so, look, the Nuggets hang on to win the game, but given Phoenix too many opportunities to get at the free throw line, among some other things, you know, some of the offense went a little stagnant there late with the Yokic Murray two-man game, kind of doing their thing. You saw Murray hit a big pull-up jump shot to put Denver back up 123 to 121. And then Yokech there with the bunny shot right around the free throw

line puts Denver up 125 to 123 so get to your final score there and so uh yeah you know i see we got a

comment here gave them so much life i mean that's exactly what it felt like right i mean it just felt

like you know if you ever seen the movie rounders right there's the russian guy the guy who owns

the poker club and he's like hanging around

hanging around kids got alligator blood right and that's kind of what it felt like with this phoenix

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