After Games 1 and 2 went down to the wire, the LA Clippers did not want to give the Denver Nuggets a chance in Game 3. The Clippers dominated the Nuggets wire to wire on Thursday night, putting on a show for the Intuit Dome crowd in their first-ever playoff game.

The Clippers are suffocating Nikola Jokic’s paint. Is it a sustainable strategy for the Nuggets to keep relying on role players like Russell Westbrook to score? Do they have a choice?

Russell Westbrook is relishing the opportunity to play the role of the disruptor for the Nuggets in their playoff series vs. the Clippers.