Denver Nuggets defeated the Portland Trail Blazers by 128-109 in Game 2 of the first round of the playoff series in the Western Conference. Nikola Jokic scored 38 points and Michael Porter Jr. added 18 points towards the win. For Blazers, Damian Lillard had scored a game-high 42 points, of which 22 were scored in the 2nd quarter, but that was not enough as Jokic leveled for the series against Blazers.
For Blazers, Lillard also added 10 assists, CJ McCollum added 21 points, Norman Powell had 15 points, and Jusuf Nurkic gave 13 rebounds. This match between the Nuggets and the Blazers was a testy one and had witnessed 4 technical fouls and 2 flagrant fouls. At halftime, the Denver Nuggets lead by 12 and extended the margin to 81-66 at the basket by Campazzo.