Overview
- Denver stayed on track as a top-three seed with a road win while Nikola Jokic remained sidelined by a knee hyperextension.
- Murray led with 33 points, with Aaron Gordon adding 22 and Peyton Watson 18 in a balanced Nuggets performance.
- Dallas shot a season-worst 5-for-34 from three (14.7%), undercutting a rally that trimmed a 23-point deficit to five early in the fourth.
- No. 1 pick Cooper Flagg sprained his left ankle in the second quarter and did not return after halftime, finishing with six points in 15 minutes.
- Starting center Daniel Gafford was ruled out in the second half with a right ankle sprain, compounding a frontcourt already missing Anthony Davis for about six weeks and Dereck Lively II for the season.