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Chauncey leads Nuggets to upset win over Lakers
Posted: Feb 6, 2010 12:03 AM
Updated: Feb 6, 2010 12:03 AM
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Chauncey Billups scored a career-high 39 points, including nine 3-pointers, and the Denver Nuggets defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 126-113 Friday night, ending the Lakers' eight-game home winning streak.
Billups was 12 of 20 from the floor, 9 of 13 from 3-point range and made 6 of 8 free throws to go with eight assists for the Nuggets, who played without Carmelo Anthony for the seventh straight game because of a sprained left ankle.
Billups scored 21 points in the third quarter alone, the most against the Lakers in one period since Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers had 23 in a game in February 1966. Billups' nine 3-pointers were the second-most ever against the Lakers.
Kobe Bryant scored 33 points on his sprained left ankle for the Lakers.
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