The LA Clippers fell apart in the fourth quarter and dropped Game 5 to the Denver Nuggets.
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00:00The LA Clippers fell to the Denver Nuggets by a final score of 111 to 105 on Friday night,
00:05collapsing in the fourth quarter for blowing a 16-point lead.
00:08Clippers were dominant in the first half, leading wire to wire throughout and making defense a priority.
00:12Through the first two quarters, LA allowed just 44 points on 37.8% shooting from the field and 3 of 11 shooting from behind the arc.
00:19The Clippers, on the other hand, sank half of their looks from the floor and 9 of 17 from deep.
00:23The game got tight near the end of the third quarter when Denver managed to pull within six points,
00:27but timely triples from Marcus Morris Sr. and Kawhi Leonard swung things back in LA's direction, that is, until Denver got hot.
00:35Led by Paul Millsap, the Nuggets went on a 13-2 run from the end of the third to the start of the fourth quarter,
00:40making it an 82-80 game with less than 10 minutes to play.
00:43Denver continued to chip away and eventually took its first lead of the game halfway through the quarter.
00:46The Nuggets did not look back from there,
00:48pushing the lead to eight points and getting clutch buckets from Nikola Jokic, Michael Porter Jr. and Jamal Murray.
00:53It was an especially painful loss for Clippers fans to suffer,
00:56but fortunately there are still two games left in the series for LA to clinch this thing.
01:00Clippers do have some margin for error, not a lot, but some. The Nuggets do not have any.
01:06LA Clippers and Denver Nuggets will play game six of this series on Sunday, September 13th at 1 p.m. Eastern Time.
01:12That contest will air on ESPN.