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| date | time | venue | competition | season |
| November 27, 2015 | 9:00 PM ET | Pepsi Center, Denver, CO | NBA | 2015 |
San Antonio Spurs
| # | player | position | total points | total minutes |
| 12 | L. Aldridge | Power Forward | 8 | 18 |
| 2 | Kawhi Leonard | Small Forward | 25 | 32 |
| 40 | Boban Marjanovic | Center | 2 | 6 |
| 9 | Tony Parker | Point Guard | 13 | 25 |
| 14 | Danny Green | Shooting Guard | 9 | 27 |
| 30 | David West | Power Forward | 2 | 19 |
| 1 | Kyle Anderson | Small Forward | 5 | 29 |
| 18 | Rasual Butler | Small Forward | 0 | 4 |
| 15 | Matt Bonner | Center | 0 | 4 |
| 33 | Boris Diaw | Center | 6 | 23 |
| 8 | Patty Mills | Point Guard | 9 | 21 |
| 3 | Ray McCallum | Point Guard | 0 | 6 |
| 17 | Jonathon Simmons | Shooting Guard | 12 | 27 |
Denver Nuggets
| # | player | position | total points | total minutes |
| 00 | Darrell Arthur | Power Forward | 2 | 25 |
| 8 | Danilo Gallinari | Small Forward | 16 | 35 |
| 15 | Nikola Jokic | Center | 6 | 12 |
| 0 | Emmanuel Mudiay | Point Guard | 9 | 29 |
| 14 | Gary Harris | Shooting Guard | 5 | 25 |
| 16 | K. Papanikolaou | Small Forward | 0 | 4 |
| 5 | Will Barton | Small Forward | 12 | 29 |
| 7 | JJ Hickson | Center | 9 | 17 |
| 1 | Jameer Nelson | Point Guard | 12 | 22 |
| 3 | Mike Miller | Shooting Guard | 3 | 20 |
| 4 | Randy Foye | Shooting Guard | 6 | 22 |
Denver
Kawhi Leonard is on quite a roll. The reigning NBA Defensive Player of the Year also is being noticed for his play on the offensive end.
Leonard scored 25 points, and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Denver Nuggets 91-80 on Friday night for their fourth win in a row.
Tony Parker added 13 points and Jonathon Simmons had 12 for the Spurs, who were without Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili. The veteran stars got the night off to rest with San Antonio playing the second of three games in four nights.
Leonard is averaging a career-best 22 points in his fifth NBA season. The 6-foot-7 forward has scored at least 20 points in 10 of his 15 games.
T.P. has just been doing a good job and my other teammates, but starting with T.P., of getting his rhythm going and when the defense collapses on him, he’s just finding us out there and getting us wide-open shots,” Leonard said. “It just gets you in a rhythm.
Leonard is still getting it done on the defensive end, too, creating opportunities for the Spurs with five blocked shots and four steals in addition to six assists, matching a career high.
- Desire to get better
- Strong mind
- Determination is a quality that cannot be substituted, taught, or faked and it has to boil up naturally from within.
Tip-ins
Spurs: Coach Gregg Popovich on how he decides on periodic rest days for veterans Duncan, Ginobili and Parker: “It’s by the seat of my pants. I don’t know in advance. It depends on the schedule, what we just did and what is coming up. This is the second of three (games) in four nights so Tim and Manu knew before I even said anything that they would sit tonight.” … Leonard also had seven rebounds.
Nuggets: Kenneth Faried missed a third consecutive game with a left ankle sprain. … Joffrey Lauvergne was active but did not play. He has missed the last 13 games due to a low back strain. … The Nuggets shot 40.3 percent from the field, falling to 0-9 this season when converting fewer than 45.6 percent of their shots.