Sacramento Kings beat the Denver Nuggets 102-98

Sacramento, which has defeated Denver in all three of its games this season, also saw Harrison Barnes score twenty points. For the Nuggets, Aaron Gordon ended with 25 points and a season-high 15 rebounds; Michael Porter Jr. scored 19 points; Nikola Jokic had 15 points; and Reggie Jackson provided 12 points. Denver has lost three straight games.Due to right hamstring tendinosis and bilateral tibia irritation, Jamal Murray and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope were not available for the Nuggets' game.

Denver had a seven-point lead early in the fourth quarter; however, a Fox 3-pointer leveled the score at 82-82 with 6:59 remaining. The teams then exchanged long-range baskets until Sabonis' layup with 4:56 remaining gave Sacramento their first lead of the game, 87-85. Fox missed a 3-pointer, Jackson beat the shot clock, and Gordon made four straight free throws to put Denver ahead 91-87.