Denver Nuggets Overcome OKC Thunder for Stunning Upset in Game 1

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00:00The Oklahoma City Thunder up by double digits for a good majority of the second half last night

00:05including DRS up by 13 with fewer than six and a half minutes remaining. Nikola Jokic in the

00:12Denver Nuggets had other ideas. Aaron Gordon a three with just about three ticks left in regulation

00:18gives Denver a 121-119 win to steal game number one on the road in OKC outright as a 10 and a

00:28half point underdog. Denver takes game number one against the Thunder. This isn't supposed to happen

00:33particularly with a basketball team that just played a grueling seven game series finished in

00:38elevation jumps on a plane and has to play the best overall team in the NBA and what happens in the

00:44second half 35 points in the third quarter for Denver 36 points for Denver in the fourth quarter

00:50for a 121-119 game. Now we'll talk about some things that happen at the end of the game with

00:54the fouling situations whether you agree or not but my goodness you want to talk about a double

00:58digit dog who if you said the energy was low we're just looking to try to rebound or if you were

01:03handicapping this game based on just adrenaline coming off of game seven nothing to lose rested

01:07and ready OKC they're not ready for this smoke and quite frankly they should have won going away OKC

01:12but the fact that one team crumbled and it wasn't the tired legs of the Denver Nuggets it was OKC

01:17Ben that was the shocking point for me in that game.