Mar

11

Duncan Leads Spurs To 107-103 Win Over Nuggets

Posted by Stephen Rhodes under Main 

?????????????????????????????????????????????? San Antonio Spurs forward Tim Duncan reacts to teammate Kurt Thomas? score against the Denver Nuggets during the fourth quarter of their game, played Monday night. San Antonio defeated Denver 107-103.?

In what was arguably the best game on Monday’s NBA schedule, the San Antonio Spurs and Denver Nuggets played a nip-and-tuck kind of game until the very end; fortunately for the Spurs, they have Tim Duncan.? Duncan scored 23 points, leading the Spurs to the narrow victory over the Nuggets 107-103 at AT&T Center.

Allen Iverson, who has a?non-displaced fracture in the tip of his right ring finger, played like a healthy Allen Iverson; he hit consecutive 3-pointers for the Nuggets late in the first half, giving Denver a 58-55 halftime lead.? San Antonio’s Matt Bonner drained a 3, making it 80-77 with 1:37 to go in the third quarter; the Nuggets led by as many as 7 in the period before the Spurs went on a 16-5 run to close the quarter and enter the fourth quarter with a period to go.

The fourth quarter would get interesting as the lead was exchanged 6 times; Denver’s J.R. Smith made a difficult reverse layup to break an 88-88 tie with 7:25 left, and Edurado Najera’s dunk put the Nuggets up 92-89.? Denver’s Kenyon Martin tied the game at 100 with 2:!8 to go in the game before the Spurs took over for good; Duncan hit a pair of free throws and recently acquired Kurt Thomas made a crucial basket to make it 104-100, iving the game for San Antonio.

San Antonio had 6 players in double-digits, led by Duncan with 23 points, with 18 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 blocked shots, while Tony Parker scored 16 with 2 rebounds and 4 assists; Manu Ginobili and Thomas added 13 each - with Ginobili grabbing 3 rebounds, dishing out 14 assists with 2 steals, while Thomas grabbed 2 rebounds witha steal.? Denver was led by Iverson with 28 points - including a trio of 3-pointers - with 5 rebounds, 4 assists, a steal and a blocked shot, while Smith, from off the bench, scored 22 with 6 rebounds, an assist, a steal and a blocked shot.? Carmelo Anthony added 18 with 7 rebounds and 4 assists, while Martin chipped in with 16?along with 5 rebopunds, 2 steals and a blocked shot.? Marcus Camby grabbed 14 rebounds.? San Antonio (44-19) now makes the short trip to New Orleans to face the Hornets on Wednesday, while Denver (37-26) flies to Tennessee to take on the Memphis Grizzlies - also on Wednesday.



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