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Less than a week aft a Denver Nuggets crippled was delayed due to the fact that of a crooked rim, a Nuggets crippled was enactment connected clasp again due to the fact that the aforesaid rim was bent.
On Sunday, officials worked frantically to level 1 of the rims, which appeared to person been bent retired of enactment by the Boston Celtics’ Robert Williams III, causing a 35-minute delay.
On Friday, the rim was fixed overmuch faster arsenic workers utilized a wrench to hole the problem, according to ESPN, successful the 4th quarter, meaning the crippled re-started wrong little than 10 minutes.
It gave Nuggets’ Jamal Murray plentifulness of clip to beryllium among the fans, however, and instrumentality selfies arsenic players and fans waited for the crippled to resume.
Nuggets manager Michael Malone told reporters aft the game, which the Nuggets won 121-108 against the Cleveland Cavaliers: “Don’t get maine started. It’s not bully for my humor pressure.”
Nikola Jokic had 28 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists for his 10th triple-double of the season, portion Murray scored 18 points.
Elsewhere, the Charlotte Hornets scored 51 first-quarter points, tying the NBA grounds for most points successful an opening quarter and mounting a franchise grounds for immoderate quarter, arsenic they bushed Milwaukee Bucks 138-109 connected Friday.
The Hornets besides tied the highest single-quarter full successful the league this play and scored a franchise-record 84 points successful the archetypal half.
Charlotte defender Terry Rozier scored 39 points, portion LaMelo Ball finished with 24 points to assistance the Hornets to conscionable a 2nd triumph successful 7 games.
In LA, LeBron James returned from an unwellness to animate the Lakers to a 130-114 triumph implicit the Atlanta Hawks.
James scored a team-high 25 points arsenic the Lakers won their 4th consecutive game.
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