LOS ANGELES – Canada’s Jamal Murray scored a regular season career-high 50 points as the Denver Nuggets crushed the Cleveland Cavaliers 120-103 on Friday night in Cleveland.
Murray, who scored 50 points in two playoff games last season, surpassed his previous high of 48 points in Denver’s 115-107 win over the Boston Celtics on November 2018.
Murray, whose mother is from Syria and father was born in Jamaica, made 21 of 25 shots from the floor and drained eight threes for the Nuggets, who led 69-50 at halftime.
The Nuggets beat the Cavs for the second time in 10 days, this time shooting 57.5 percent from the floor.
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