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Nuggets. The seldom used Johnson, who came in averaging 1.5 points per game, hit three 3-pointers and a floating bank shot during a span of less than four minutes in the fourth quarter, helping the Raptors push their lead to 103-92 with six minutes to go.Denver never pulled closer than seven points after that and lost its third straight to fall to 3-5 in its final eight regular-season games that were played in the NBA's "bubble" in the Orlando area.

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That isn't a fluke either, with the Raptors ranking No.

The Denver Nuggets (46-26) face the Toronto Raptors (52-19) in the Orlando bubble for a 1:30 p.m. It entered the week on a blistering 58-32 run on top-rated The Nuggets are an excellent offensive team, even with their personnel limited due to injuries.

3 seed in the Western Conference and Toronto No. "A lot of growth for a lot of players," Raptors coach Nick Nurse said in summing up a regular season that exceeded expectations after last summer's departures of "Just a good kind of top-to-bottom effort by the crew for certainly the first 60-plus games, and then to re-gather and keep it rolling once we got here, it's good.

Team Stats Jokic's triple-double leads Nuggets over Raptors, 133-118 Nikola Jokic had 23 points, 18 rebounds and 11 assists for his 12th triple-double of …

Friday marks the final day of the NBA regular season and, to tip things off, the Tip-off is at 1:30 p.m. Our experts make their picks for the West play-in and every first-round series.The NBA playoffs start Monday. "Nuggets: Open their first-round playoff series against Utah on Monday.Raptors: Begin their first-round playoff series against Brooklyn on Monday.More AP NBA: https://apnews.com/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP-SportsNets general manager Sean Marks says re-signing forward Joe Harris will be at the top of the team's list in the offseasonHow many sweeps? Toronto is also a deep team, which could come in handy if injury or rest-related absences come into play in the finale.Offensively, the Raptors are above average in effective field-goal percentage, turnover rate and free-throw rate.