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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida – The Jamal Murray-Donovan Mitchell duel will be resolved in the first Game Seven on the bubble.
Murray extended his torrid streak with 50 more points, leading the Denver Nuggets to a 119-107 victory over the Utah Jazz on Sunday night.
Murray had his second 50-point game of the series to equal Mitchell, who finished with 44 in it. No player has had more in an entire postseason.
They will try one more time Tuesday night, and the winner will advance to face the Los Angeles Clippers.
The Clippers finished off the Dallas Mavericks in six games on the same court a few hours earlier.
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Denver is trying to become the 12th team to rebound from a 3-1 deficit to win a series and the first since 2016, when the Cleveland Cavaliers completed the only such comeback that came in the NBA Finals.
The Nuggets won the first game, but the Jazz won the next three games and were in good shape to finish it in Game 5, with a 15-point lead in the third quarter.
Murray led the charge back in that game, finishing with 42 points, and then was a fiery 17 of 24 in Game 6, going 9 of 12 behind the 3-point arc.
Mitchell also hit nine 3s and increased the NBA’s highest scoring average in these playoffs by 37.6 points per game.
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