Utah Jazz’s Lauri Markkanen scored 27 points against the champion Denver Nuggets. Suomalaištahti shared the title of best scorer with Nikola Jokic.
NBA basketball player Lauri Markkanen continued his strong early season momentum as the Utah Jazz faced the reigning champion Denver Nuggets away from home. Markkanen scored 27 points as Utah lost 102-110.
Markkanen shared the score of the match with the Denver superstar Nikola Jokic with. In volleyball, the Finn took a longer shot. Markkanen grabbed 14 rebounds and the Serbian player three points less.
Markkanen collected five passes and Jokic 11 respectively.
Markkanen was on the field for 38 minutes.
Jokic rose to the level of a legend in the triple-double statistics LeBron James’s with. Both have notched 107 triple-doubles in their careers.
Markkanen was in the strongest mood in the third quarter, when he scored 12 points. The second half was Utah’s best of the game.
– There were many more positive things than negative things from this evening. Obviously, we would have preferred to win, but this is a very tough team, Utah head coach Will Hardy reminded by KSL Sports according to the website.
The loss was Utah’s third of the season. Over the weekend, Markkanen scored his highest score of the season in one game, 35 points against the Los Angeles Clippers.
Since the beginning of the season, only the Golden State Warriors have made more successful threes than Markka Stephen Curry and the Dallas Mavericks Luca Doncic.
Updated 9.06: Added to the story that Markkanen has made the third most successful threes since the beginning of the season.