Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant scored 24 points and reserve guard Sasha Vujacic dominated the fourth quarter, scoring 19 of his career-high 22 points and powering the Los Angeles Lakers to a 127-99 rout of the Denver Nuggets on Thursday night.
Vujacic shot 6-for-14 in 21 minutes of action. Andrew Bynum had 12 points and 13 rebounds and Luke Walton added a career-high 14 points in 27 minutes.
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Mike Dunleavy scored 30 points, Shawne Williams had 21 and the Indiana Pacers held off the Denver Nuggets 112-110 on Tuesday night. The Pacers led 106-97 with a minute left but didn't secure the win until J.R. Smith missed a free throw with 2.7 seconds left and Indiana leading 111-110.
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Denver Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin had an MRI performed on his right leg Monday, which revealed a bone bruise of his right tibia.
Team Report
as of Tuesday, November 27, 2007 1:21 PM.
(Sports Network) - The Denver Nuggets are off to a solid start to the 2007-08 campaign, but injuries are creeping up on the team. They have won nine of their first 14 games on their schedule.
Denver trails the first place Utah Jazz by one-half game in the Northwest Division.
On Tuesday, the Indiana Pacers start a four-game road trip when they visit the Nuggets at the Pepsi Center. It is the second and final meeting of the campaign between the clubs. On November 10th, Carmelo Anthony scored 32 points and grabbed 10 rebounds as the Nuggets erased a 25-point deficit and knocked off the Pacers, 113-106, at Conseco Fieldhouse.
The Nuggets have won seven in a row in the season series. The Pacers have dropped three in a row at Denver.
The last time the Pacers defeated the Nuggets was on March 7, 2004 at Denver.
Denver will attempt to get back on the winning track against the Pacers. Tracy McGrady scored a game-high 35 points as the Houston Rockets pulled out of their recent slump with a blowout win over the Nuggets, 109-81, on Saturday at the Toyota Center.
Allen Iverson scored 18, and Carmelo Anthony had 17 points in the loss to Houston for the Nuggets, who have dropped two of their last three games overall. J.R. Smith chipped in 13 points off the bench for Denver, which shot a woeful 35.4 percent from the field in defeat.
The Nuggets are 6-1 at home this season. They have won five straight at the Pepsi Center. Denver is scheduled to visit Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday at the Staples Center.
Forward Kenyon Martin has bone bruise of his right tibia and is doubtful for Tuesday's contest. Martin is averaging 8.6 points and 4.9 rebounds in 13 contests this season for Denver.
Denver is already without center Steven Hunter (arthroscopic right knee surgery), forward Nene (left thumb surgery) and guard Chucky Atkins (strained right groin). All three are out indefinitely.
Anthony leads the Nuggets in scoring (25.2 ppg), while Marcus Camby has grabbed a team-best 15.0 rebounds per game and Iverson, who is second on the team in scoring (23.6 ppg), is averaging a club-high 7.2 assists.
The Nuggets are 3-4 when their opponent reaches the century mark and 7-1 when they score over 100 points.