Nuggets Too Strong, Beat 76ers
The Denver Nuggets showed why sportswriters predicted them to finsh top 4 in the West. They plled ut a 98-95 win over te 76ers in Igoudala's debut for the Nuggets... coincidently against his old team. The Nuggets pulled out to a 18 point lead at one point in the 2nd behind a couple of Danilo Gallinari threes. But the 3rd quarter was all 76ers outscoring the Nuggets 29-14 in the 3rd. The most intersesting part came towards the end. Down by 1 with a minute left, Ty Lawson ran pick and roll with Javale Mcgee and hit a tough baseline layup over Andrew Bynum ho was quiet toay only scoring 10 and pulling down 6 boards. Then a clutch Javale Mcgee block on a Thad Young driving lay in led to another pick and roll as Ty Lawson dished to Kenneth Faried who then got 2 of his 17 points on a monsterous slam. He also had a Nugget high 8 boards From there it was a few 76er buckets and a few Ty Lawson free throws to ice the game. Ty Lawson had a game high 25 points and added 10 assists to go along with steals. Also for the Nuggets, Gallo had 17 and Iggy added 16. At last Timofey Mozgov had 8 points running some nice pick and rolls with whoever was running point. For the 76ers, J-Rich had 24 and 8 boards hitting 2 of his 8 3's. Thad Young had 12 and Turner added 16 and they each had 6 boards. The Nuggets shot 54% from the field and held the 6ers to 46% and only 16% from down town.
| Denver Nuggets at Philadelphia 76ers |
| Oct 31, 2012 | 1ST | 2ND | 3RD | 4TH | SCORE |
| Denver (1-0) | 30 | 26 | 15 | 27 | 98 |
| Philadelphia (0-1) | 20 | 22 | 29 | 24 | 95 |
| Denver Nuggets |
| STARTERS | MIN | FGM-A | 3PM-A | FTM-A | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | PTS |
| Ty Lawson | 32 | 9-17 | 3-4 | 4-4 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 25 |
| Andre Iguodala | 31 | 7-13 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16 |
| Danilo Gallinari | 31 | 7-11 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| Kenneth Faried | 29 | 8-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| Javale McGee | 21 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| TEAM TOTALS | 42-77 | 8-14 | 6-8 | 37 | 25 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 98 |
| Philadelphia 76ers |
| STARTERS | MIN | FGM-A | 3PM-A | FTM-A | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | PTS |
| Jrue Holiday | 34 | | | | | | | | | 9 |
| Jason Richardson | 34 | | | | | | | | | 24 |
| Evan Turner | 30 | | | | | | | | | 16 |
| Thad Young | 29 | | | | | | | | | 12 |
| Andrew Bynum | 24 | | | | | | | | | 10 |
| TEAM TOTALS | 41-89 | 2-11 | 11-14 | 41 | 24 | 15 | 1 | 9 | 95 |