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NBA · Thursday 20 November · Smoothie King Center
New Orleans Pelicans – Denver Nuggets 118:125: NBA, 20/11/2025
Key facts
Form, table position, scoring and head-to-head in one place
Form: up to the last 5 matches in all competitions, most recent on the left (W = win, D = draw, L = loss). Averages come from the league table; where there is none, from these recent matches.
Form · last 5
League position
Points per game · season
Head to head · 4
wins – draws – wins
Match report
The match in a few sentences: score, scorers, table impact
The text is generated automatically from the match data and updates with it.
NBA: New Orleans Pelicans – Denver Nuggets 118:125 (20 November). Denver Nuggets won. Venue: Smoothie King Center.
By quarter: 30:26, 28:36, 25:35, 35:28. New Orleans Pelicans led after the first quarter (30:26), but their opponents came back to win.
Top scorers: Peyton Watson (Denver Nuggets) — 32; D. Queen (New Orleans Pelicans) — 30; Nikola Jokic (Denver Nuggets) — 28.
Table now: New Orleans Pelicans — 11th (4–6); Denver Nuggets — 9th (5–3).
Head to head (4): New Orleans Pelicans — 0 wins, Denver Nuggets — 4.
Score by quarter
Points in each quarter
| Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Σ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Orleans Pelicans | 30 | 28 | 25 | 35 | 118 |
| Denver Nuggets | 26 | 36 | 35 | 28 | 125 |
Game leaders
Top performers in this game
Points
- 1Peyton Watson32
Denver Nuggets34 min
- 230
- 328
Rebounds
- 1Peyton Watson12
Denver Nuggets34 min
- 211
- 39
Assists
- 112
- 28
- 35
Box score
Every player's stats in this game
Min = minutes, Pts = points, Reb = rebounds, Ast = assists, 3P = three-pointers (made/attempted), FT = free throws, FG = field goals, FG% = field-goal percentage, Stl = steals, Blk = blocks, TO = turnovers. Greyed out = bench players.
New Orleans Pelicans
| Player | Min | Pts | Reb | Ast | 3P | FT | FG | FG% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25Trey Murphy | 36 | 23 | 2 | 3 | 5/12 | 4/4 | 7/14 | 50% |
| D. Queen | 30 | 30 | 9 | 4 | 1/2 | 5/8 | 12/18 | 67% |
| 1Zion Williamson | 29 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 0/0 | 2/4 | 6/13 | 46% |
| 2Herbert Jones | 29 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1/4 | 2/2 | 3/8 | 38% |
| J. Fears | 26 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 0/4 | 2/2 | 7/15 | 47% |
| 15Jose Alvarado | 19 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0/4 | 0/0 | 1/6 | 17% |
| 14Saddiq Bey | 19 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0/3 | 2/4 | 0/3 | 0% |
| 24Jordan Hawkins | 18 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0/2 | 0/0 | 3/7 | 43% |
| M. Peavy | 17 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0/3 | 3/3 | 3/8 | 38% |
| Y. Missi | 12 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 0/0 | 3/4 | 2/5 | 40% |
| 5Kevon Looney | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/1 | 0% |
Denver Nuggets
| Player | Min | Pts | Reb | Ast | 3P | FT | FG | FG% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27Jamal Murray | 36 | 16 | 0 | 8 | 2/7 | 4/5 | 5/14 | 36% |
| 15Nikola Jokic | 34 | 28 | 11 | 12 | 2/4 | 6/7 | 10/18 | 56% |
| 8Peyton Watson | 34 | 32 | 12 | 3 | 5/9 | 1/1 | 13/19 | 68% |
| 2Cameron Johnson | 33 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 1/3 | 1/2 | 6/8 | 75% |
| 22Zeke Nnaji | 27 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0/2 | 2/2 | 0/3 | 0% |
| 11Bruce Brown | 27 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 0/1 | 2/4 | 5/7 | 71% |
| 8Tim Hardaway | 23 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1/5 | 0/0 | 3/9 | 33% |
| 17Jonas Valanciunas | 16 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 0/0 | 6/6 | 4/5 | 80% |
| S. Jones | 11 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | – |
Team stats
Both teams' numbers side by side
- 44Rebounds41
- 25Assists35
- 7Three-pointers made11
- 34Three-point attempts31
- 23Free throws made22
- 31Free-throw attempts27
- 44Field goals made46
- 98Field-goal attempts83
Teams in the table
Both teams' positions in the league table
Full table on the competition page. Form: recent matches, most recent on the right.
| # | Team | P | W | L | % | +/− | Form |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 40% | -3 | LL | |
| 9 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 63% | +17 | W |
Form
Team leaders
Each team's best players this season
Points per game
Rebounds per game
Assists per game
Recent matches
Both teams' recent results in all competitions
Head to head
Previous meetings between the two teams
Only matches in our data source (usually recent seasons).