Denver Nuggets @ LA Clippers
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM ET
Intuit Dome, Inglewood, CA | Game ID: 22500224
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
LAC 35 33 22 26 116DEN 39 24 43 24 130
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Nikola Jokic scores 55 points to match NBA season high, Nuggets beat Clippers for 6th straight win
INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- — Nikola Jokic had 55 points, tying the highest-scoring performance in the NBA this season, and 12 rebounds and the Denver Nuggets beat the short-handed Los Angeles Clippers 130-116 on Wednesday night for their sixth straight victory.
Oklahoma City star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 55 in a double-overtime game at Indiana on Oct. 23.
Jokic scored 25 of Denver's 39 points in the first quarter. He had eight in the second before coming back with 19 in the third. He sat out most of the fourth before scoring three points to complete his night going 18 of 23 from the field. He missed adding to his league-leading six triple-doubles with six assists. The Serbian big man was 5 of 6 on 3-pointers and made 14 of 16 free throws.
James Harden scored 23 points — making all 10 of his free throws — and had eight rebounds and five assists to lead the spiraling Clippers, who took a major blow earlier in the day when they found out that Bradley Beal will miss the rest of the season with a fractured hip. They're currently without Kawhi Leonard , who has a sprained ankle and foot.
Jordan Miller added a career-high 22 points off the bench and Ivica Zubac had 18 points as Los Angeles lost its sixth in a row to fall to 3-8.
The Clippers kept it close in the first half despite Jokic's prolific scoring. After being down 10 in the opening quarter, they led by 10 and were ahead 68-63 at halftime.
Jokic took over in the third, twice putting together personal runs of six straight points. The Nuggets led 106-90 going into the fourth.
Up next Nuggets: At Minnesota on Saturday night.
Clippers: At Dallas in an NBA Cup game on Friday night to open a seven-game trip.
Who is who
the initials in the Players column
LACBB B. Bogdanović
BL B. Lopez
BO Bogdanovic
CC C. Christie
DJ D. Jones Jr.
IZ I. Zubac
JC J. Collins
JH J. Harden
JM J. Miller
KB K. Brown
KD K. Dunn
KS K. Sanders
NB N. Batum
DENAG A. Gordon
BB B. Brown
CB C. Braun
CJ C. Johnson
HT H. Tyson
JM J. Murray
JP J. Pickett
JS J. Strawther
JV J. Valančiūnas
JO Jokic
NJ N. Jokić
NN Nnaji
PW P. Watson
SJ S. Jones
TH T. Hardaway Jr.
VA Valanciunas
LAC/DEN the team itself, not a player
-- the feed named nobody
What
What happened
the codes in the Events column
M2 / M3 made 2 / made 3
X2 / X3 missed 2 / missed 3
FT / X1 free throw made / missed
AST assist
OR / DR offensive / defensive rebound
STL steal
BLK block
TO turnover
FL foul
OF offensive foul — ends the possession
VIOL violation
JUMP jump ball
TM timeout
IR instant replay
HE heave at the buzzer, filed to the team
Where
Where a shot came from
the middle field of M3.LW.25
RM at the rim inside 4 ft
RC right corner
RW right wing
SO straight on
LW left wing
LC left corner
M3.LW.25 made 3, left wing, 25 ft
X2.RM.01 missed 2, at the rim, 1 ft
When
When it happened
the Offset column
one number per event, in the Events order:
whole seconds from the start of the
possession to that event
Events FL X3.RC.23 OR M2.RM.01
Offset 0 18 22 24
the foul opens the possession at 0s;
the putback ends it at 24s, which is
the possession's own Dur