Playing in Denver on the second night of a back-to-back against a Nuggets team on a seven-game win streak, the Bulls made clutch plays down the stretch

Tim Hardaway Jr. and Nikola Jokic led the Denver Nuggets over the Minnesota Timberwolves 123-112 for their seventh straight victory Saturday night.

Nikola Jokic paced the Denver Nuggets with 52 points through three quarters of play against the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday night. He finished with 55 points as the Nuggets won 130-116. It's the fourth 50-point game of Jokic's career but – rather incredibly – the first in which his team has won.

Jokić scored 55 points in a 130-116 road win Wednesday against the LA Clippers at Intuit Dome. It only took three quarters for Jokić to reach the 50-point mark, 52 to be exact. That display of bucket getting impressed Gordon.

Kevin Huerter and Nikola Vucevic hit crucial 3-pointers to help the Chicago Bulls beat the Denver Nuggets 130-127

Nikola Jokic had 55 points, tying the highest-scoring performance in the NBA this season, and 12 rebounds and the Denver Nuggets beat the short-handed Los Angeles Clippers 130-116 on Wednesday night for their sixth straight victory.

The NBA's courtside statistics system at Target Center crashed in the third quarter of Saturday's Nuggets-Timberwolves game, leading the final score to be the only statistic available when the game ended.

That's what the Tyronn Lue-led Clippers attempted to do with Nuggets star Nikola Jokić during Denver‘s eventual 130-116 win over Los Angeles on Wednesday night. The Clippers’ gameplan? Let Jokić score. Let's just say the plan backfired spectacularly, as Jokic tied the highest scoring performance in the NBA this season in a 55-point outburst.

After some technical difficulties at the Target Center, the official box score for the Denver Nuggets vs. Minnesota Timberwolves game has been updated.