Game 2 of the NBA’s Western Conference Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets will be held Thursday night (May 18, 2023) at 8:30 p.m.
ESPN will televise the game, but if you don’t have cable you can watch it on DirecTV Stream or fuboTV.
- Watch Game 2 of the Lakers and the Nuggets on DirecTV Stream or fuboTV.
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DENVER (AP) — The Los Angeles Lakers are taking solace in their big second-half comeback that fell just short in the Western Conference finals opener at Denver.
They aren’t alone — the Denver Nuggets also feel L.A.’s furious rally held takeaways for them heading into Game 2 on Thursday night at Ball Arena.
“I told our guys this is the best possible situation we could be in,” Denver coach Michael Malone said Wednesday. “We won Game 1, so we’re up 1-0. But there’s so many things that we can clean up.”
Film study wasn’t much fun for either team Wednesday.
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The Lakers scored 72 second-half points on 67% shooting from the field and 90% from the free throw line while holding the Nuggets to one fast-break bucket and finally slowing down Nikola Jokic in the fourth quarter.
It wasn’t enough to overcome the big deficit or Jokic’s big night as the Nuggets held on 132-126.
Los Angeles big man Anthony Davis said the second-half turnaround has the seventh-seeded Lakers hopeful they can still wrestle the homecourt advantage from top-seeded Denver just like they did against Memphis and Golden State in these playoffs.
“Oh, yeah. We know what put us in that hole: no transition, rebounding,” Davis said. “They’re a physical, hard-playing team. They were very comfortable doing whatever they wanted. In the second half we just imposed our will, especially in that fourth quarter, playing Laker basketball. We were able to cut the lead.”
The Lakers were behind 21 points when they started playing and they could not overcome the deficit.
Not only did Denver’s…
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