MIAMI The Denver Nuggets are finally "back to where they belong" at the top of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Western Conference, after four months of looking up to other teams.
On March 13, Michael Porter Jr scored 25 points as the reigning NBA champions defeated the Miami Heat 100-88 on the road to improve to 46-20 and move above the Oklahoma City Thunder (45-20) in the West.
Denver led for most of the first half before the Heat edged ahead with a third-quarter rally, only for the Nuggets to regain their advantage and pull clear in the final frame at Kaseya Centre.
Nuggets star Nikola Jokic was restricted to 12 points after a disciplined Miami defensive effort, but that just allowed more space for Porter, who drained five three-pointers in a nine-of-16 shooting display. He said his performance owed everything to his teammates engineering time and space for him to shoot freely.
"Did you see the shots I was getting? They were wide-open threes, so it's really my teammates, all credit to them," Porter told ESPN.
"We've got a good, well-balanced team, so when you take something away, there's another option. That's what it was tonight."
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