Bennett Durando is the Colorado Avalanche beat writer for The Denver Post. Before taking on his first NHL beat, he covered SEC football and other sports for five years, first at his alma mater, Missouri, for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Columbia Missourian, then Auburn for the Montgomery Advertiser.
Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic shoots against Memphis Grizzlies forward Xavier Tillman during the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Oct. 27, 2023, in Memphis, Tenn. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis Grizzlies, with or without embattled star Ja Morant and injured center Steven Adams, are gritty, pesky, frisky and quite simply a pain to deal with.
With 6:05 remaining, an unsuspecting Jokic was stripped by Derrick Rose for his eighth turnover. The ensuing fast-break layup cut Denver’s lead to 95-93 and forced a Michael Malone timeout. Smart’s 15-footer less than two minutes later gave the Grizzlies a 98-97 lead. Denver had led almost the entire game.
Both Nuggets centers struggled to contain Jackson, who amassed 21 points on 9-of-12 shooting and nine rebounds. But Zeke Nnaji, in a game with a loose ball seemingly every other possession, was ready for the challenge. He battled and made a handful of high-effort plays throughout the night, most of all during the fourth quarter. In one sequence after a Denver timeout, Michael Malone kept his second unit on the floor up 91-87 early in the fourth.
On the first night of the World Series, Mr. October was the star. Jackson carried the bench, scoring 16 through three quarters including a smooth cross-over and floater at the third-quarter buzzer. It helped Denver to a double-digit lead that it couldn’t protect in the fourth.
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