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| date | time | venue | competition | season |
| December 10, 2014 | 10:30 PM ET | Pepsi Center, Denver, CO | NBA | 2015 |
Miami Heat
| # | player | position | total points | total minutes |
| 1 | Chris Bosh | Power Forward | 14 | 34 |
| 9 | Luol Deng | Small Forward | 12 | 26 |
| 41 | Justin Hamilton | Center | 4 | 22 |
| 30 | Norris Cole | Point Guard | 6 | 28 |
| 3 | Dwyane Wade | Shooting Guard | 10 | 28 |
| 40 | Udonis Haslem | Power Forward | 10 | 0 |
| 8 | James Ennis | Small Forward | 2 | 12 |
| 33 | Danny Granger | Small Forward | 5 | 21 |
| 98 | Shawne Williams | Small Forward | 9 | 24 |
| 21 | Hassan Whiteside | Center | 6 | 6 |
| 13 | Shabazz Napier | Point Guard | 3 | 13 |
| 6 | Mario Chalmers | Point Guard | 11 | 15 |
Denver Nuggets
| # | player | position | total points | total minutes |
| 21 | Wilson Chandler | Power Forward | 17 | 24 |
| 7 | JJ Hickson | Center | 6 | 23 |
| 20 | Timofey Mozgov | Center | 9 | 26 |
| 3 | Ty Lawson | Point Guard | 10 | 30 |
| 4 | Arron Afflalo | Shooting Guard | 16 | 28 |
| 35 | Kenneth Faried | Power Forward | 13 | 22 |
| 00 | Darrell Arthur | Power Forward | 4 | 20 |
| 15 | Alonzo Gee | Small Forward | 8 | 21 |
| 23 | Jusuf Nurkic | Center | 5 | 15 |
| 11 | Erick Green | Point Guard | 11 | 18 |
| 14 | Gary Harris | Shooting Guard | 7 | 23 |
Denver
The Denver Nuggets needed a lift before embarking on a tough stretch of games. The road-weary Miami Heat gave them the break they needed.
Wilson Chandler scored 17 points, Arron Afflalo had 16 and the Nuggets beat the Heat 102-82 on Wednesday night to snap a four-game losing streak.
Chris Bosh had 14 points to lead Miami, which has dropped four of its last five on the road after starting the season 5-2 away from home. The Heat are in the middle of a stretch of eight of 10 games on the road.
Wednesday posed a difficult challenge for the four-time Eastern Conference champions. The Heat won in Phoenix on Tuesday but faced the daunting task of playing the Nuggets at the high altitude.
This is the worst back-to-back in the league,” guard Dwyane Wade said. “You come in to see what you can do. You try to come out and compete. We did that for a half and then it got away from us in the third quarter. It was one of those games.
Denver has been streaky in the first quarter of the season. The Nuggets lost six straight, won five in a row to go above .500, but followed that with the four-game slide.
- A great player must have the will to prepare to win.
- That will set great players apart from mediocre players.
- The ability to make their teammates better.
Tip-ins
Heat: The Heat played without F Josh McRoberts. He suffered a bruise on his right knee late in Miami’s win in Phoenix on Tuesday night. … Miami is 9-0 when leading after three quarters and 6-2 when scoring 100 or more points. … The Heat have hit at least one 3-pointer in 213 straight games.
Nuggets: F Kenneth Faried returned to the lineup after missing two games with a back injury. … F Danilo Gallinari missed the game with a couple of bone bruises to his right knee. Denver coach Brian Shaw played Gallinari just 5:36 in Monday’s overtime loss in Toronto but said the lack of playing time was due to how well Wilson Chandler was playing. … The Nuggets were also without G Nate Robinson (back) and C JaVale McGee (left tibia soreness). Robinson has now missed three straight games and McGee eight of the last nine.