Photos: Lakers fall to Nikola Jokic and the Nuggets in Game 1 Lakers might have figured out a formula to defend Denver’s Nikola Jokic Anthony Davis scored 40, James had 26 and Austin Reaves added 23, but it wasn’t quite enough to bring the Lakers back from the double-digit deficit they faced for most of the night. Jokic finished with 34 points, 21 rebounds and 14 assists, his sixth triple-double of the postseason. “Some of them was effort,” LeBron James said of the plays that swung the momentum. The Nuggets and Nikola Jokic were too big, too tough on the glass for the first five on the court, immediately controlling the game en route to a 132-126 win thanks to a start that created a mountain too steep for the Lakers to completely climb.
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