Portland Trail Blazers @ Denver Nuggets

West 1st Round - Game 2 • Series tied 1-1

42-30, 22-14 Away

109

42-30, 22-14 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Trail Blazers POR	25	36	26	22	109
Nuggets DEN	31	42	28	27	128

Denver NuggetsNuggetsDEN

47-25, 25-11 Home

128

47-25, 25-11 Home

Portland Trail Blazers

starters
Robert CovingtonR. Covington#23
Jusuf NurkicJ. Nurkic#27
Damian LillardD. Lillard#0
CJ McCollumC. McCollum#3
Norman PowellN. Powell#24
bench
Carmelo AnthonyC. Anthony#00
Harry Giles IIIH. Giles III#4
T.J. LeafT.J. Leaf#18
Derrick Jones Jr.D. Jones Jr.#5
Rondae Hollis JeffersonHollis-Jefferson#2
Nassir LittleN. Little#9
Enes FreedomKanter#11
CJ EllebyC. Elleby#16
Anfernee SimonsA. Simons#1
Keljin BlevinsK. Blevins#21
team

MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF	+/-
37	3	0	1	1	1	2	2	4	1-3	33.3	1-2	50.0	0-0	0.0	3	-3
25	7	4	9	13	1	0	1	1	2-8	25.0	1-2	50.0	2-2	100.0	6	0
42	42	0	4	4	10	0	1	3	11-24	45.8	9-16	56.3	11-13	84.6	1	-16
38	21	0	6	6	2	0	0	5	9-12	75.0	2-3	66.7	1-2	50.0	5	-23
26	15	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	5-9	55.6	0-3	0.0	5-6	83.3	3	-24
MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF	+/-
21	5	1	1	2	0	0	0	2	1-5	20.0	1-4	25.0	2-2	100.0	5	-24
4	0	2	1	3	0	0	0	3	0-1	0.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0	+2
4	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1-2	50.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0	+2
5	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1-2	50.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	1	+8
4	2	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	1-1	100.0	0-0	0.0	0-1	0.0	0	+2
4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1-2	50.0	1-2	50.0	0-0	0.0	0	+2
18	4	1	4	5	0	0	1	1	1-3	33.3	0-0	0.0	2-2	100.0	2	-14
4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0	+2
10	3	1	2	3	1	1	0	1	1-1	100.0	1-1	100.0	0-0	0.0	1	-9
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	109	10	30	40	15	3	7	21	35-73	47.9	16-33	48.5	23-28	82.1	27

Denver Nuggets

starters
Aaron GordonA. Gordon#50
Michael Porter Jr.M. Porter Jr.#1
Nikola JokicN. Jokic#15
Austin RiversA. Rivers#25
Facundo CampazzoF. Campazzo#7
bench
Paul MillsapP. Millsap#4
JaMychal GreenJ. Green#0
Zeke NnajiZ. Nnaji#22
Vlatko CancarV. Cancar#31
Bol BolB. Bol#10
Monte MorrisM. Morris#11
Markus HowardM. Howard#00
Shaquille HarrisonS. Harrison#3
JaVale McGeeJ. McGee#34
team

MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF	+/-
28	13	1	5	6	2	0	0	0	4-9	44.4	2-2	100.0	3-6	50.0	2	+19
33	18	2	2	4	1	2	0	1	5-13	38.5	3-6	50.0	5-5	100.0	3	+17
31	38	3	5	8	5	1	0	4	15-20	75.0	2-4	50.0	6-6	100.0	5	+12
20	9	0	1	1	2	0	0	1	3-5	60.0	2-3	66.7	1-2	50.0	4	0
30	12	1	2	3	6	3	1	3	4-10	40.0	2-4	50.0	2-2	100.0	2	+11
MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF	+/-
15	15	1	6	7	3	1	0	0	5-8	62.5	0-2	0.0	5-6	83.3	2	+8
20	4	2	0	2	2	0	0	1	2-6	33.3	0-2	0.0	0-0	0.0	3	+10
3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0-2	0.0	0-2	0.0	0-0	0.0	1	-2
3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0	-2
2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0	-2
30	12	0	1	1	7	2	1	1	5-10	50.0	0-2	0.0	2-2	100.0	1	+19
15	5	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	2-2	100.0	1-1	100.0	0-0	0.0	2	+1
10	2	0	2	2	0	2	0	1	1-1	100.0	0-0	0.0	0-1	0.0	0	+4
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	128	10	25	35	29	12	3	12	46-86	53.5	12-28	42.9	24-30	80.0	25

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Trail Blazers
123
Nuggets
109

Game 1

5/22

Trail Blazers
109
Nuggets
128

Game 2

5/24

Nuggets
120
Trail Blazers
115

Game 3

5/27

Nuggets
95
Trail Blazers
115

Game 4

5/29

Trail Blazers
140
Nuggets
147

Game 5

6/1

Nuggets
126
Trail Blazers
115

Game 6

6/3

Ball Arena

10:00 PM, May 24, 2021Coverage: TNT

Denver, CO

Attendance: 7,727

Referees:
John Goble
Michael Smith
Ben Taylor
Gediminas Petraitis

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Oklahoma City	10	1	.909	-	W2
Denver	7	2	.778	2	W4
Minnesota	7	4	.636	3	W3
Portland	5	5	.500	4.5	L2
Utah	3	7	.300	6.5	L3

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