Murray’s 50 help Nuggets force Game 7

The Jamal Murray-donovan Mitchell duel will be settled in the first Game 7 in the bubble.

Murray extended his torrid run with 50 more points, leading the Denver Nuggets to a 119-107 victory over the Utah Jazz on Sunday night.

Murray had his second 50-point game of the series to equal Mitchell, who finished with 44 in this one.

They will go at it one more time Tuesday night. Murray and his teammates are trying to become the 12th team to rally from a 3-1 deficit to win a series and the first since 2016, when the Cleveland Cavaliers completed the only one of those comebacks that came in the NBA Finals.

“They believe in me, I believe in them, and we’re trying to be this 12th team to come back from down 3-1,” Murray said.

Mitchell was disappointed the Jazz had missed a chance to wrap up the series in Game 5.

“I can’t tell you as a player that I want to play Game 7 if we’re up 3-1,” he said. “I don’t think anybody wants to do that but we’re here, so play the hand that you’re dealt and we’re going to go out there and execute and do what we’ve got to do.”

The Nuggets won the opener, but the Jazz won the next three games and was in good shape to finish it in Game 5, holding a 15-point lead in the third quarter.

Mitchell also hit nine three-pointers in Game 6 and increased what was the NBA’S top-scoring average in these playoffs at 37.6 points per game.

In the fourth quarter alone, Murray outscored Mitchell 21-17, helping prevent the Jazz from ever getting close enough to have a real chance of finishing the series.

Murray had a little more help, with Nikola Jokic scoring 22 points and Jerami Grant adding 18.

Mike Conley had 21 points for the Jazz, but Rudy Gobert and Jordan Clarkson were each only held to 11.

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Doncic and Dallas from the playoffs in Game 6 of the first-round series.

Doncic capped a superb first postseason with 38 points, nine rebounds and nine assists, keeping it interesting into the fourth quarter even while playing without injured teammate Kristaps Porzingis.

But with Leonard reaching the 30-point mark for his career-best fifth straight playoff game and a strong defensive effort, the Clippers had too many answers.

The No. 2 seed in the Western Conference advanced to a second-round meeting with either Denver or Utah.

Paul George and Ivica Zubac added 15 points apiece for the Clippers, who turned up their defense in this one after winning Game 5 with the best offensive performance in their postseason history.

Leonard also had seven assists and five steals.

The Clippers played most of the game without forward Marcus Morris, who was ejected for a flagrant foul against Doncic in the first quarter.