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LA Lakers vs. Denver Nuggets NBA Pick Prediction 5/18/2023
Lakers at Nuggets—Bamba out for Los Angeles with Davis and James probable. Nuggets have a clean injury report. Denver takes the 1-0 series lead after their 132-126 home victory to LA Lakers. They crushed LAL on the glass by a 47-30 margin.
Nuggets shot 55% with 47% from three. Nikola Jokic had 34 points with 21 rebounds and 14 assists. Murray scored 31. Los Angeles shot 55% with 46% from three. Anthony Davis had 40 points and ten rebounds. James poured in 26.
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Denver built up the 21 point lead in the third quarter. Denver is shooting 49.4% in the playoffs with 38.7% from three. Their net rating is +8.3 which leads all playoff teams. Nuggets holds a 54.4% rebounding edge in the playoffs. LAL is making 47.5% from the floor in the playoffs but only 33.8% from three and a +4.4 net rating.
Denver has won all seven home games in the playoffs with a +12.6 net rating by scoring 121.1 points per 100 possessions while allowing 108.5 per 100. They are pulling down 55% of the rebounds at home. The pace of play has been slow in Denver home games with 95.71 possessions per 48 minutes.
Lakers have lost five of seven on the road in the playoffs with a -7.2 net rating by scoring only 110.3 points per 100 possessions while scoring 117.6 per 100. After falling behind big the Lakers composed and made it a game late.
LAL have covered 21 of 32 against winning teams. LA has covered after each loss in the playoffs. Denver with a monster shooting game in the opener still couldn’t cover the numbers. Play Los Angeles +5.5.
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