JAKARTA - Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic performed brilliantly to help their team, the Denver Nuggets, score a historic game when securing victory over the Dallas Mavericks in the continuation of the 2025-2026 NBA competition season.
Murray scored 53 points, which is the highest this season, and Jokic recorded his 30th triple-double of the season with 23 points, 21 rebounds, and 19 assists in a 142-135 victory at the Pepsi Center on Wednesday night local time or Thursday, March 26, 2026.
"The incredible numbers of the best duo in the NBA. They really are the history books of this franchise in terms of the length of their time together," coach David Adelman said as quoted by ESPN.
The second note of the two names makes Denver automatically the first team in NBA history to have one player with 50 points and another player with at least 15 points, 15 rebounds, and 15 assists in the same game.
The meeting with the Mavericks was the second straight game played by the Nuggets in a span of just 16 hours after the narrow victory they got against the host Phoenix Suns.
The sweet victory in the match reminded the memory of the third game of the 2023 NBA finals when the two players managed to score a triple-double of 30 points in Miami to control the series.
Jokic's career began in the 2015-2016 season or a year after being selected 41st in the draft. On the other hand, Murray entered a year later as the seventh pick.
Since then, they have recorded 400 games together over the past 10 seasons, including the playoffs. The two reached the playoffs two years after first playing together on the field and lifted the first NBA title four years later.
"How the two of us started, the journey we've been on, from zero to being a considered player and winning a championship. We're still growing and doing great," Jokic said in response to their historic togetherness.
The duet of these two names managed to bring the Nuggets back to the playoffs this season. This achievement shows that they can do anything when the two play at the highest level.
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