Our offense is struggling to hit jumpers and they have some really good jump shooters. They jump to the early lead. 12-6.
We start pounding it inside and getting the lead cut down.
We are down 20-18 at the end of 1. Embiid leads us with 6 points.
Near the end of the half, had a beautiful showtime style sequence with Embiid rebounding it, passing it to Augmon to Ellis to MCW to Theus for a dunk without the ball ever touching the floor for more than 1 dribble.
MCW with a huge 2nd quarter to keep us in it. We are down 48-47 at the half.
Afflalo leads them with 13 points. Hickson with 6 boards. Lawson with 6 assists.
Ellis leads us with 12 points on 6 of 9 shooting. MCW with 11 points, 3 boards, 4 assists, and 2 blocks.
Our defense is smothering them early in the 3rd quarter. If it wasn't for a few bad passes on fast breaks, we'd be running away now. As it is, we are up 57-50 before MCW needs a breather.
Augmon with a huge dunk over Hickson.
Augmon steals it from Bojan and sets up Ellis for a breakaway dunk.
Ellis gets hot after that. 65-53 lead.
Ellis loses his man and allows an easy dunk. Ellis with a 14 footer at the other end.
Ellis on fire and Watson feeding him the ball for some easy assists. 72-55.
Ellis had an amazing streak of 9 straight shots. 20 points in the quarter before he misses a shot late in the quarter. We are up 83-67 at the end of 3.
They come out in the 4th doubling Ellis to cool him off.
Ellis with 12 footer with 4 minutes left to break the 40 point barrier. 41 points as we take a 104-82 lead.
With a 108-85 lead and 2:30 to go, we pull Ellis and most of our starters.
Ellis was the player of the game.
| Denver Nuggets at Philadelphia 76ers |
| Dec 25, 2015 | 1ST | 2ND | 3RD | 4TH | SCORE |
| Denver (15-15) | 18 | 29 | 36 | 27 | 110 |
| Philadelphia (12-15) | 20 | 28 | 19 | 21 | 88 |
| Denver Nuggets |
| STARTERS | MIN | FGM-A | 3PM-A | FTM-A | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | PTS |
| Michael Carter-Williams | 33 | 10-14 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 23 |
| Monta Ellis | 40 | 19-32 | 2-6 | 1-2 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 41 |
| Jeffrey Augmon | 28 | 7-14 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 16 |
| Nerlens Noel | 31 | 5-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Joel Embiid | 27 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| BENCH | MIN | FGM-A | 3PM-A | FTM-A | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | PTS |
| Theus | 27 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Watson | 21 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Deng | -- DID NOT PLAY -- |
| Sims | -- DID NOT PLAY -- |
| Maggette | 10 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Grant | -- DID NOT PLAY -- |
| Rodgers | 23 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 2-2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| TEAM TOTALS | 49-90 | 3-11 | 9-11 | 51 | 36 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 110 |
| Philadelphia 76ers |
| STARTERS | MIN | FGM-A | 3PM-A | FTM-A | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | PTS |
| Hickson | 35 | 9-13 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 19 |
| Afflalo | 31 | 6-18 | 2-5 | 2-4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 16 |
| Gallinari | 33 | 6-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
| Lawson | 33 | 5-19 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10 |
| Faried | 33 | 2- | 0-0 | 0-0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| BENCH | MIN | FGM-A | 3PM-A | FTM-A | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | PTS |
| Vasquez | 18 | 5-7 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 |
| Harris | 15 | 5-10 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| Foye | 10 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Nurkic | 15 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Bogdanovic | 17 | 1-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| TEAM TOTALS | 41-90 | 2-11 | 4-7 | 43 | 23 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 88 |