Denver Nuggets @ New Orleans Hornets

30-16, 12-10 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Nuggets DEN	20	24	21	16	81
Hornets NO	19	27	22	26	94

New Orleans HornetsHornetsNO

28-14, 16-5 Home

Denver Nuggets

starters
Kenyon MartinK. Martin
Nene N. Hilario
Chauncey BillupsC. Billups
Dahntay JonesD. Jones
JR SmithJ. Smith
bench
Chris AndersenC. Andersen
Carmelo AnthonyC. Anthony
Linas KleizaL. Kleiza
Renaldo BalkmanR. Balkman
Steven HunterS. Hunter
Johan PetroJ. Petro
Anthony CarterA. Carter
Sonny WeemsS. Weems
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
38	22	10-12	0-1	2-5	6	1	2	0	2	1	5	3	-11
31	11	5-9	0-0	1-1	6	1	1	1	1	1	5	4	-5
35	12	4-14	1-6	3-5	2	2	2	1	0	0	2	4	-4
27	3	1-4	0-0	1-1	3	2	3	1	1	2	1	2	-16
38	20	7-17	2-7	4-4	6	5	4	0	0	1	5	4	-11
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
20	4	2-5	0-0	0-0	5	0	2	0	0	1	4	3	-18
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	5	2-8	1-6	0-0	6	0	0	1	0	1	5	0	+2
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	+1
27	4	2-4	0-1	0-0	2	6	3	2	0	0	2	2	-3
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	81	33-74	4-22	11-16	36	18	19	6	4	7	29	23
		45%	18%	69%

New Orleans Hornets

starters
Hilton ArmstrongH. Armstrong
Peja StojakovicP. Stojakovic
Rasual ButlerR. Butler
Julian WrightJ. Wright
Chris PaulC. Paul
bench
Sean MarksS. Marks
David WestD. West
Ryan BowenR. Bowen
James PoseyJ. Posey
Tyson ChandlerT. Chandler
Melvin ElyM. Ely
Antonio DanielsA. Daniels
Morris PetersonM. Peterson
Devin BrownD. Brown
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
30	8	4-7	0-0	0-0	5	2	2	2	1	2	3	3	-4
41	26	10-14	2-4	4-5	5	3	2	1	0	0	5	1	+13
17	2	1-2	0-1	0-0	3	1	1	0	0	0	3	4	0
14	4	2-2	0-0	0-2	3	1	3	0	1	0	3	2	-9
38	12	3-12	0-1	6-8	2	10	5	4	0	0	2	2	+5
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
18	6	2-3	0-0	2-2	7	1	0	0	1	3	4	1	+17
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	4	2-2	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
36	6	1-13	0-6	4-5	9	1	0	1	0	1	8	4	+19
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	5	2-6	1-2	0-0	0	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	+7
3	3	1-2	1-1	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	+2
24	18	6-7	3-3	3-3	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	+15
	94	34-70	7-18	19-25	35	23	15	10	3	6	29	21
		49%	39%	76%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Matchups

DEN

NO leads season

2-1

101

Game 1@ DEN

Final

105

Game 2@ DEN

Final

100

Game 3@ NO

Final

101

Game 4@ NO

Final

Game Information

New Orleans, LA

Referee:Eddie F. Rush

Referee:Mark Ayotte

Referee:Matt Boland

Western Conference

Northwest	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Oklahoma City	64	18	.780	-	L2
Denver	54	28	.659	10	W12
Minnesota	49	33	.598	15	W2
Portland	42	40	.512	22	W2
Utah	22	60	.268	42	L1

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39m

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