Though Denver won all three meetings during the regular season, the total margin was just 11 points. Mike Conley had 21 points for the Jazz, but Rudy Gobert and Jordan Clarkson were each only held to 11.Ī seventh game between the third-seeded Nuggets and No. Murray had a little more help, with Nikola Jokic scoring 22 points and Jerami Grant adding 18. In the fourth quarter alone, Murray outscored Mitchell 21-17, helping prevent the Jazz from ever getting close enough to have a real chance of finishing the series. Mitchell also hit nine 3-pointers and increased what was the NBA's top-scoring average in these playoffs at 37.6 points per game. Other than trapping him, we're trying to make him hit contested shots and he's doing that,' Utah coach Quin Snyder said. 'Last game he got to the rim and we wanted to take that away. Murray led the charge back in that game, finishing with 42 points, and then was a sizzling 17 of 24 in Game 6, going 9 for 12 behind the 3-point arc. The Nuggets won the opener, but the Jazz won the next three games and were in good shape to finish it in Game 5, holding a 15-point lead in the third quarter. 'I don't think anybody wants to do that but we're here, so play the hand that you're dealt and we're going to go out there and execute and do what we've got to do.'

'As a fan perspective I see it and I respect it, but I can't tell you as a player that I want to play Game 7 if we're up 3-1,' he said. Mitchell was disappointed the Jazz had missed a chance to wrap up the series in Game 5, but understands the interest in seeing he and Murray square off in the ultimate contest. 'They believe in me, I believe in them and we're trying to be this 12th team to come back from down 3-1,' said Murray, whose right sneaker had a picture of George Floyd and his left Breonna Taylor, two Black people killed by police this spring. Murray and his teammates are trying to become the 12th team to rally from a 3-1 deficit to win a series and the first since 2016, when the Cleveland Cavaliers completed the only one of those comebacks that came in the NBA Finals. They will go at it one more time Tuesday night, with the winner advancing to face the Los Angeles Clippers, who finished off the Dallas Mavericks in six games on the same court a few hours earlier. No player has ever had more in an entire postseason.

Murray had his second 50-point game of the series to equal Mitchell, who finished with 44 in this one. Murray extended his torrid run with 50 more points, leading the Denver Nuggets to a 119-107 victory over the Utah Jazz on Sunday night. The Jamal Murray-Donovan Mitchell duel will be settled in the first Game 7 in the bubble. Murray outduels Mitchell, sets up first Game 7 in the bubble ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, Lake Buena Vista

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