Denver Nuggets – Los Angeles Lakers · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 20 September 2020

DEN103–105LAL

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 81% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes

It measures how much the win probability moved during the game —without looking at who won or at the score— and compares it with the 10,950 NBA games with a curve since 2017. “Highly recommended” is the most intense 20%, “recommended” runs from 50% to 80%, and “skippable” is the rest. Source: ESPN.

↑ LAL winsDEN wins ↓

Home team's win probability across the game (source: ESPN). The band rises when LAL leads and falls when DEN does.

This is how the game was decided.

Anthony Davis decided it, the Los Angeles Lakers player with the most points (31, with 9 rebounds and 2 assists; +8 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Dwight Howard's (+10). The criterion: the winner's points in the box score; plus-minus says who was on the floor when the game opened up.

The game-winner in Los Angeles Lakers 105-103 Denver Nuggets (September 20, 2020) was hit by Anthony Davis: a three-pointer with 0.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Los Angeles Lakers up 105-103. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Los Angeles Lakers 105-103 Denver Nuggets (September 20, 2020) was a 11-0 run by the Los Angeles Lakers in the second quarter (from 5:54 to 4:04), from 41-36 to 52-36. The Denver Nuggets' best was a 9-0 run in the fourth quarter (from 2:42 to 31.8 s), from 92-100 to 101-100.

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Play: Anthony Davis makes 26-foot three point jumper (Rajon Rondo assists).

I count as the game-winner the basket that puts the winning team ahead for good. Source: the official NBA play-by-play (since 2002-03) and each team's official box scores.

A run here is consecutive points by one team without the opponent scoring. Source: the official NBA play-by-play (since 2002-03) and each team's official box scores.

Source: the game's official box score and play-by-play.

Anthony Davis decided this game: his points put his team ahead at the buzzer of the fourth quarter, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 2 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Davis decided

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A game is decided by the last basket that puts a team ahead in the final ten seconds of the fourth quarter or of an overtime, if that team wins.

20 September 2020 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401246235:708; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Who stood out on defense during the season

These figures cover the whole 2019-20 regular season, not this game.

Denver Nuggets

Nikola Jokić deflected 2.8 passes per game over his 73 games.
He ranks 22 of 352 in the league.
Jamal Murray recovered 1.2 loose balls per game over his 59 games.
He ranks 24 of 352 in the league.
Gary Harris deflected 2.6 passes per game over his 56 games.
He ranks 33 of 352 in the league.

Los Angeles Lakers

Anthony Davis recovered 1.7 loose balls per game over his 62 games.
He ranks 1 of 352 in the league.
Danny Green deflected 2.7 passes per game over his 68 games.
He ranks 29 of 352 in the league.
Alex Caruso drew 0.16 charges per game over his 64 games.
He ranks 30 of 352 in the league.

Hustle figures come from the hustle stats the NBA publishes (NBA.com) and rim defense comes from its tracking; both cover the regular season. For each player in this game we show the figure that ranks him highest in the league, and for each team, the three best ranked. Ranks count players with at least 30 games and, at the rim, at least 4 defended shots per game.

The Los Angeles Lakers have won 143 of their 241 games against the Denver Nuggets.

143-98record of the Los Angeles Lakers · NBA 1976-77 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 1976-77 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Series

Game 2

Conference finals

LAL 4-1

Scoring

208

combined points

11.1 below the season average (219.1)

⚖️ The last two minutes

Official NBA L2M report: every call in the endgame, reviewed by the league.

30 calls reviewed0 no admitted errors