Denver has run over the Clippers across the second half of the game. Nuggets lead wire-to-wire, top Clippers to tie series at 1

This was led by a scoring run headed by Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic. Both men rediscovered their shooting form and helped the Nuggets score almost 60 points at the end of the first quarter. Jokic scored 26 points and Jamal Murray scored 27 points to lift the Denver Nuggets to a 110-101 in Game 2 over the Los Angeles Clippers on the Western Conference semifinal series Saturday night.

Gary Harris and Paul Millsap each added 13 points to help Denver knot the series at a game apiece.Paul George scored 22 points for the Clippers, who got 15 from Ivica Zubac and endured a rare off night offensively from Kawhi Leonard. The two-time NBA Finals MVP had 13 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists, but shot only 4 for 17.

History, of course, says an 0-2 hole would have been very difficult for Denver. The Nuggets have never rallied from 0-2 down in a best-of-seven in their NBA history; they’ve won one of 13 series in the NBA after losing the first two games, and that was the best-of-five upset of top-seeded Seattle in the 1994 first round. They’ve won six of 19 previous series that were tied 1-1.