LeBron It's the defending champion We understand how difficult of a matchup it's been versus Denver They gonna make it tough on us we gotta make it tough on them we'll rest get back into the books for this 1st round series that's gonna be extremely tough on us

Post Game Thread The Denver Nuggets 5-3 defeat the OKC Thunder 4-4 122-110 behind Jokics triple double

[NBC Sports NW] "Kick him in the shin." Denver Nuggets radio analyst Scott Hastings says in reference to Nurkic "playing tough guy" on the Blazers bench. It was met with laughter by play by play announcer Jason Kosmicki.