Aaron Gordon tonight:

25+ PTS
90+ FG%
5+ AST
3+ steals/blocks

He’s the first player in NBA history to reach each of those marks in a single playoff game.

Nikola Jokic before turning 30 (stats include playoffs):

15,000+ PTS
8,000+ REB
5,000+ AST
1x Finals MVP
3x Season MVP

He’s the only player in the history of the NBA to reach each of those milestones before turning 30 years old.

Free throw attempts in tonight’s game:

DEN: 9
LAL: 27

It’s the first series-clinching win in NBA history that a team took fewer than 10 free throw attempts while its losing opponent took more than 25.

The Lakers are 0-9 when trying to avoid being swept in a best-of-7 playoff series, worst of all NBA franchises.

Players in NBA history to have a record of 20-5 or better and average 30+ points per game over a 25-game span in the playoffs:

Nikola Jokic (last 25 games)
Kevin Durant
LeBron James
Shaquille O’Neal
Michael Jordan

Since the NBA went to all best-of-7 series beginning in 2003, there have been 90 instances of a team holding a double-digit lead in each of the first 3 games of a playoff series.

This year's Lakers are the only ones to be down 3-0.

Nikola Jokic and Aaron Gordon tonight each had:

20+ Points
15+ Rebounds
65.0+ FG%

Across nearly 4000 playoff games played in the last 60 years, they’re the first teammates to reach those marks in the same postseason game.

Since the 1976 NBA-ABA merger, there is just one NBA lineup with 20+ playoff games started together and a winning percentage of at least .800:

That is the Nuggets current starting group, which owns a record of 18-4 (.818) in the postseason.

Tonight, the Nuggets became the first team in NBA history to beat a single opponent in nine straight games, despite taking at least four fewer free throw attempts in every game of the streak.

Denver has taken 130 free throw attempts over that winning streak to the Lakers’ 204.

Nikola Jokic tonight:

41 points on 16-for-20 (80%) shooting.

It’s the second time in NBA history that a player had 40+ points on 80+ percent shooting against a team that entered the game with 55+ wins (Gene Banks - April 13, 1983).

Michael Porter Jr. in 15 games since the All-Star Break:

47 3PM
110 REB
56.7 FG%

He’s the only player in NBA history to reach each of those marks over any 15-game span: and it is the second time he’s done it (also 3/30/21 to 4/26/21).

The Denver Nuggets went 4-0 this season against Stephen Curry. They went 3-0 against LeBron James.

They're the first team in NBA history to sweep 3+ games against two different multi-time former MVPs in the same regular season.

Tonight, Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic won their 300th game together (including the playoffs).

They’re the first duo in Nuggets history to win 300+ games together before turning 30 years old.

Nikola Jokić of the Denver Nuggets is the second player in NBA history to have at least 80 points, 50 rebounds and 45 assists over a 3-game span.

The other was Wilt Chamberlain from March 18-20, 1968.

Tonight was the fourth time Nikola Jokic & Michael Porter Jr. went for 25+ points and 10+ rebounds on 60% or better shooting in the same game.

That is tied for the most games by any duo since the 1976 merger - Hall of Famers Hakeem Olajuwon & Ralph Sampson also had 4 such games.

Yesterday the Denver Nuggets' Nikola Jokić:

Led all NBA players in rebounds
Led all NBA players in assists
Led all NBA players in FG% (min. 10 FGA)

He's the first player ever to lead the NBA in all 3 categories on a day with at least 10 games.

Triple-doubles while going 10-for-10 or better from the field, since NBA-ABA merger:

Nikola Jokić, Denver Nuggets: 3 (including tonight)
All other players combined: 0

A take that hasn’t been brought up enough for those stressing about Denver’s last two games (their first time losing two straight games in over two months, by the way):