Sunday, December 28, 2025 | | |
| | | | | Anthony Black scored a career-high 38 points, Desmond Bane made two free throws with 6.9 seconds left and the Orlando Magic overcame another huge triple-double by Nikola Jokic to beat the Denver Nuggets 127-126 on Saturday night. | | | | | Kobe Bryant? “I can use that name with Anthony Edwards,” Nuggets coach David Adelman says. | | | | | The No.1 problem is that the two-man game has not been working. This has always been a Nuggets’ constant, like Arnold saying, “What you talkin’ about, Willis?” in “Diff’rent Strokes.” You expect to see it in every episode, every game. | | | | | Nikola Jokic’s two highest-scoring games of his career have been in Denver’s last two home games against the Timberwolves. | | | | | Cam Johnson averted a more disastrous injury, but he’ll still miss a sizable chunk of time for the Nuggets. | | | | | “Jonathan pretty much runs the farm,” his father, Manuel Wallace, said. “He’s kind of the brain on it. We just implement a lot of the things he wants to pursue.” | | | |