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Nuggets Drop Season Opener on the Road in Oklahoma City, Lose 96-84 to Thunder · Altitude Sports Radio Game Replays and Highlights

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  Speaker 1: Duggan stands far and wide.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Casino and Hotel. Just one mile from Blackhawk and scenic
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  Speaker 1: walkable Central City.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Winner's Zone.
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  Speaker 1: Along with Altitude Television's Katie Wenge.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Jason Kosminski.
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  Speaker 1: We're coming to you live from the Paycom Center in
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and this is game number one. For
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  Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets, it'll be Christian Brown, Cameron Johnson, Aaron Gordon,
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  Speaker 1: Jamal Murray, and Nikola Jokic, Jalen Williams, Chet Holmgren, Isaiah Hartenstein,
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  Speaker 1: Shea Gilgis-Alexander and Kaysen Wallace, the starting.
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  Speaker 2: Five tonight here. Underway. High right side is Hartenstein. Hartenstein
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  Speaker 2: dribble handoff over to Holmgren. Holmgren goes to the right hand.
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  Speaker 2: He's on the wing. Throws cross court over to Kaysen
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  Speaker 2: Wallace for three.
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  Speaker 1: Jumper is good. Thunder crack the scoreboard first there on top.
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  Speaker 1: Over to Jokic, seven on the clock. Hands it off
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  Speaker 1: over to Murray. Turns the corner off the Jokic pick.
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  Speaker 2: Pick and roll. Back over to Murray. Layup is up
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  Speaker 2: and in. Nicely done. Gorgeous.
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  Speaker 3: And Aaron Gordon getting the ball to Nicole Jokic immediately saying,
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  Speaker 3: watch your back.
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  Speaker 2: As he's passing, watch your back.
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't want to have any early turnover.
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  Speaker 2: Jamal Murray.
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  Speaker 1: Murray has it to midcourt circle. High pick from Jokic.
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  Speaker 1: Gets down the lane. Wrap around pass to Gordon. His
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  Speaker 1: shot blocked at the rim. He got his own ball back.
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  Speaker 2: Three-pointer cam. Jumper's good. No big shot there. Nicely done.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Didn't need the glass on that one. Well, it's
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  Speaker 1: because he wasn't straight ahead of the puck. Comes down
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  Speaker 1: to Jamal Murray. Murray has it across the timeline. Gets
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  Speaker 1: a moving pick from Jokic. Slices his way through.
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  Speaker 2: Layup is up and in. Boy, nicely done.
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  Speaker 1: And the first time out of the game, Katie, goes
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  Speaker 1: to Oklahoma City.
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  Speaker 2: Denver leads it here. Top of the key is Jokic.
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  Speaker 1: Right side over to Cam Johnson. Trevin, the Zill, is
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  Speaker 1: up and off the bench here for Denver. He'll be
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  Speaker 1: the first sub. Jumper by Joker goes up and has
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  Speaker 1: it knocked out of his hands.
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  Speaker 2: He gets it back. Goes to the right hand. Behind
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  Speaker 2: him to Murray. Short clock here. Murray left side. Christian
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  Speaker 2: and a three. Buckets.
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  Speaker 3: 22-17.
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  Speaker 2: Denver back in the lead by five.
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  Speaker 3: Such a big make for CB.
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 1: And he's one of the two for one, but you've
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  Speaker 1: got to shoot it in a hurry. Jokic knows this
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  Speaker 1: for three. Short, no good. Rebound Brazil. Put back up
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  Speaker 1: and in, though, after he was stripped by Diallo. And
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  Speaker 1: the Nuggets have their big lead of the night. They're
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  Speaker 1: up by a nickel here, 27-22. Jump shot by Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: City won't go. Rebound Denver to Rosen has it on
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  Speaker 1: the high right side. Spin move in the paint. Jump
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  Speaker 1: shots up and in. Nuggets have their big lead of
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  Speaker 1: the night. They're up by 7, 35-28. Rosen working against Caruso.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good matchup for him. Throws out of it
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  Speaker 1: to Murray. Corner three, Brazil. Rims out, rebound to Bagley,
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  Speaker 1: and he put it back up and in. And there's
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  Speaker 1: your timeout. Nuggets have their big lead of the night.
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  Speaker 1: They're up nueve, 39 to 30. We're back in a
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  Speaker 1: moment on the Altitude Sports Radio Network.
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  Speaker 2: The activity is elite.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he's already doing the little things, and that's the
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  Speaker 1: hardest thing to teach someone. Here comes Jokic. Jokic has
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  Speaker 1: it at the point. Alley-oop down low to Jamal Murray.
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  Speaker 1: Throws out of it to Christian Brown. Top of the key,
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  Speaker 1: Jokic and a three.
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  Speaker 2: Buckets.
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  Speaker 1: Denver ties their big lead of the night. They're up
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  Speaker 1: by nine, 43 to 34.
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  Speaker 2: Against Holmgren.
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  Speaker 1: Throws out of it on top over to Jokic. Jokic
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  Speaker 1: back over to Murray. Good pick by Gordon. Back over
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  Speaker 1: to Gordon on the pick and pop. He jabs once
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  Speaker 1: at Chet. Gordon's got that look in his eye. Three
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  Speaker 1: pointers on the way.
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  Speaker 2: That one's up and in. Atta boy. Doesn't it feel.
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  Speaker 3: Really good when you say something like that and then.
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  Speaker 2: They make a shot?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Denver has it.
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  Speaker 1: They move it left to right to begin the third quarter.
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  Speaker 1: Murray's shot was blocked at the rim by Hartenstein. Outlet
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  Speaker 1: pass off over to Alexander. You got to think he's
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  Speaker 1: going to start cooking here, right? He gets down the lane.
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  Speaker 1: Runner banks up and in, and there's his first bucket.
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  Speaker 3: First bucket of the game, just to clarify for those
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  Speaker 3: who are just joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Back on top to Jokic, right side Diallo and a three.
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  Speaker 1: Off the back, no good, rebound down to Jamal Murray.
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  Speaker 1: Back over to Jokic, head fake, throws it off over
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  Speaker 1: to Gordon. Gordon back over to Jokic, Jokic has it
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  Speaker 1: on the wing, left hand side, guarded by Hartenstein. Back
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  Speaker 1: on top over to Gordon for three, got it again!
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  Speaker 1: Two in a row for Gordon from downtown.
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  Speaker 3: And that time it was Jamal Murray setting the great
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  Speaker 3: screen to get Aaron Gordon.
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  Speaker 1: Three bounce down to Murray, man. He is working hard.
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  Speaker 1: Murray shovel pass off over to Gordon. Gordon puts it
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  Speaker 1: on the floor.
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  Speaker 2: He's in the paint. Reverse side layup. That's good.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: That was nifty. The rebound goes over to Jokic. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: we play on. Backdoor cut, Christian. Missed the dunk. It
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  Speaker 2: was blocked by Holmgren. What a defensive play. Chase. Download
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  Speaker 2: a dunk. Two hands. Jalen Williams. Timeout called by David Adelman.
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  Speaker 2: Now the crowd's into it.
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  Speaker 1: Moose ball comes out over to Murray. Murray's quickly in
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  Speaker 1: the front court here for Denver. Murray gets a pick
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  Speaker 1: from Jokic. Murray back behind the three-point line. Defense recovers.
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  Speaker 2: Over to Jokic. Down low to Brazil. Layup is up
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  Speaker 2: and in. What a pass by Joker.
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  Speaker 3: And Jokic and Murray did such a great job of
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  Speaker 3: getting the switch that they wanted to allow there to
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  Speaker 3: be an advantage.
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  Speaker 2: That Joker found. Down the pass off over to Mitchell
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  Speaker 2: up the right wing. Mitchell's in the paint. Layup.
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  Speaker 1: Good!
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  Speaker 2: Thunder lead for the first time since the first quarter
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  Speaker 2: with two minutes to go in the third period.
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  Speaker 1: Against Mitchell. Loses the basketball. And it's picked up by
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  Speaker 1: Jamal Murray. In the paint to Bagley. Shovel pass down.
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  Speaker 2: Lodiallo! And the layup is up and in. Oh, my gosh. Pandemonium! Man,
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  Speaker 2: a broken plate. Turned out aces. Number down by 12.
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  Speaker 2: DeRozan three. That one's good. Now the Nuggets trail by
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  Speaker 2: nine again, 81 to 72. Brousseau has it. Game winner, Shea.
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 2: The Denver Nuggets are going to lose game number one
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  Speaker 2: of the 2026 season. On the road to the Oklahoma
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  Speaker 2: City Thunder.
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  Speaker 1: It was a really entertaining basketball game and then just
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  Speaker 1: slowly started slipping away from him. Mara has the rebound
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  Speaker 1: knocked out of his hands to Hopkins. Down low over
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  Speaker 1: to Nimhard. Kick out three Brazil. Short and no good.
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  Speaker 1: Ten seconds left to go in the basketball game and
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  Speaker 1: the putback goes up and in there by Ryan Nimhard.
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  Speaker 2: And that'll be it.
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City will wind it down five seconds left to
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  Speaker 1: go here and Denver will lose. There's a horn in
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City to the Thunder entertaining basketball game.
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  Speaker 2: For three-plus quarters, and then it slipped away from the Nuggets.
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  Speaker 2: 96-84 is the final here tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Denver falls to 0-1 on the season.
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  Speaker 2: We'll take a timeout.
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  Speaker 1: Postgame show comes up next on the Altitude Sports Radio Network.