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Timofey Mozgov's hard foul on the All-Star came in a dominant third quarter that helped Denver win 112-91 Thursday night and end the Clippers' season-high four-game winning streak that included a victory over the Nuggets last weekend. Danilo Gallinari scored 21 points, including all five of his 3-pointers, Ty Lawson added 18 points, Arron Afflalo 15 and Mozgov 11 for the Nuggets, who had lost two straight overall and three in a row to the Clippers, their longest active losing streak against any team. Mozgov sent Griffin to the court, and Griffin struck his head.
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It appears to have worked. O.J. Mayo scored 18 points, including a go-ahead 3-pointer with 35 seconds left in overtime, as Memphis rallied from a double-digit deficit Tuesday night and snapped a four-game losing streak with a 100-97 victory over the Denver Nuggets. "It's the grit-and-grind, 48-minute effort from the entire team," Mayo said of the change in mentality. "We try to put havoc on the opposing team. Defensively, playing hard, scrappy, owning the paint."
The 23-year-old Italian star scored 21 of his 23 points in the first half, and the Nuggets routed the Sacramento Kings 122-93 on Wednesday night for their fifth straight victory and fifth in a row on the road. The Nuggets, who have the second-best record in the Western Conference at 13-5, signed Gallinari to a four-year, $42 million contract extension Wednesday morning. "The contract means a lot. It means this team, this franchise really believes in me," said Gallinari, who was coming off a career-high 37 points Saturday in a victory over the Knicks at Madison Square Garden. "I feel great about this team. It was easy for me to say yes to this contract."
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