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11-24-2013, 07:13 PM
Hey guys,
Yesterday, 3 close victories last night in the NBA
Miami Heat def. Orlando Magic while the Los Angeles Clippers def. the Sacramento Kings and the Denver Nuggets def. the Dallas Mavericks and all 3 of them win it in their hometown courts
Here are the stories:
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/gametracker/recap/NBA_20131123_ORL@MIA
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James' jumper helps Heat rally past pesky Orlando
Nov. 23, 2013
MIAMI -- The last offensive play for the Miami Heat did not go as planned. In the eyes of Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, the two-time defending NBA champions pretty much botched the whole thing.
Except the ending, that is.
"It helps to have LeBron James," Spoelstra said.
James bailed out the play -- and delivered the eventual game-winner in the process. His jumper with 15.1 seconds left provided the final points, and the Heat rallied from 16 down in the second half to beat the Orlando Magic 101-99 on Saturday night.
Dwyane Wade scored 27 points in his return to the lineup after missing two games to rest his knees, James added 22 and Chris Bosh had 15 for the Heat (10-3), who have won six straight. This marked the first time the Heat needed to rally in the final quarter.
"I cleared out and he did the rest," Wade said of Miami's final offensive play. "He made an unbelievable shot."
Glen Davis, playing for the first time since Jan. 30 because of a broken left foot, scored 20 points for the Magic, who fell to 0-5 on the road. Arron Afflalo and Victor Oladipo had shots in the final 5 seconds, but neither fell -- Oladipo's skipped off both sides of the rim -- and Miami escaped when James got the game's last rebound as time expired.
He threw the ball downcourt, tossed his headband and wristbands into the stands, and exhaled deeply.
"LeBron in space, and he'll take care of the rest," Spoelstra said of Miami's last play. "But the execution before that was extremely poor, very poor. And he just did what great players do. He was very relaxed, calm, got to a spot where he felt comfortable and shot a great in-rhythm jump shot that made all of us look better."
Afflalo scored 18, Oladipo added 17 and E'Twaun Moore had all of his 14 points in the first half for Orlando, which let one slip away. In the first 43 minutes, the Heat led for all of 54 seconds, and were getting blown out for a while.
In the end, they had the only lead that mattered.
"We know that they are a team that can get things going pretty quickly," Magic coach Jacque Vaughn said.
Bosh's jumper with 4:30 remaining put Miami up 89-88, and from there it got frantic to the end. James made a 3-pointer over Davis for another Heat lead with 3:47 left, then took a charge against the burly power forward 19 seconds later, grimacing as he got off the hardwood.
Miami led by four points on a pair of occasions, and the lead was three with just under a minute to play. Afflalo missed a 3-pointer that would have tied it, but Davis got the rebound, went into the lane, drew contact from Bosh and got a shot to fall. The free throw rattled and dropped with 37 seconds left, and the teams were tied at 99-all.
Orlando didn't score again.
"I wouldn't want to come back against no other team," said Davis, who got three stitches near his right eye after the game. "This was a great team to come back and play. I'm just happy to be back no matter if we're playing the NBA champs or we're playing (the New Orleans) Pelicans or something, I'm just happy to play basketball and show the world that I can contribute to a team. I'm just happy I'm back."
James added nine rebounds and seven assists for the Heat, plus reached double figures for the 508th straight regular-season game, tying Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the fifth-longest streak in NBA history.
Moore had all his points in the second quarter, on 5 for 5 shooting, 4 for 4 from 3-point range. When Afflalo got a 3-pointer to rattle off the rim a couple times and finally fall with 7 seconds left in the half, the Magic owned a 55-39 lead to take into the intermission.
By the time Orlando got its first points of the second half, that lead was largely gone.
Miami opened with 10 straight points in the third quarter, with James hitting a pair of 3-pointers and Wade capping it all by going down the middle of the lane for a dunk.
Just like that, 55-39 became 55-49, and the Heat had life. And in the end, they had a win as well, albeit a much tougher one than the 28-point romp at Orlando on Wednesday.
"That's the nature of the game," Wade said. "We knew they were going to play better tonight."
Notes: After playing twice in four days, the teams do not meet again until Miami visits Orlando on Jan. 4. ... James had a stuff-like-only-he-does sequence in the third quarter when he got a deflection and steal, gathered the loose ball, dribbled upcourt and threaded a one-handed crosscourt pass between plenty of Orlando defenders to set Ray Allen up for a 3-pointer.
Meanwhile....
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/gametracker/recap/NBA_20131123_SAC@LAC
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Paul keeps Clippers from collapsing against Sacramento
Nov. 23, 2013
LOS ANGELES -- The Clippers and the Kings were both mad about the 20-point difference in their game.
The Clippers were angry about blowing a big lead; the Kings didn't like being in that kind of hole and nearly digging themselves out only to lose.
Chris Paul scored 22 points, hitting a go-ahead free throw with 2.5 seconds left, to help Los Angeles win 103-102 Saturday.
"We've got to put teams away and not keep being in all these dogfights," Paul said. "It was kind of fitting we won with a defensive stop because we've been trying to improve our defense. Hopefully it gives us some confidence."
Paul got fouled and made the first, putting the Clippers ahead 103-102, but missed the second. After a timeout, DeAndre Jordan appeared to alter DeMarcus Cousins' jumper to preserve the win.
"The only thing they could get was a jump shot," Jordan said. "I was just praying they didn't call a foul. They gave me a block? That's awesome, I'll take it."
Actually, although a block was immediately posted in the statistics, officials took it away in the final box score, leaving Jordan with two blocks for the game.
Jordan had 17 points and 12 rebounds, and Blake Griffin finished with 16 points and 10 boards for the Clippers, who have won 11 of their last 13 against the Kings. J.J. Redick added 15 points.
Paul's NBA-record streak of 13 straight games with at least 10 points and 10 assists to start a season ended when he finished with nine assists.
Cousins had 23 points and 19 rebounds for the Kings, who had won two in a row.
Isaiah Thomas added 22 points, making 11 of 13 free throws, and Patrick Patterson scored 21 points off the bench, combining to outscore the Clippers' reserves.
Afterward, Cousins tried to pull Thomas away from Jamal Crawford as they went to shake hands.
"That's just DeMarcus," Thomas said, laughing. "He gets upset. He doesn't like anybody on the other team, and that's how he is. I'm all for it, but I just had to shake my guy Jamal's hand."
Jared Dudley didn't think much of Cousins' move.
"It's bad sportsmanship," he said. "He's better than that. Someone will talk to him."
Thomas and Patterson carried the Kings in the fourth, when Cousins was limited to four points and picked up two fouls on the same play.
"I'm tired of being a part of going down 20 and then trying to come back later in the game," Cousins said. "The way we played the last stretch of that game, we've got to start games off the same way so that we won't be in those situations and we'd have a better chance."
Dudley's 3-pointer pulled the Clippers to 96-95 and then Paul's 3 tied it at 98-all with 1:29 to play.
Cousins missed a pair of free throws before Paul's driving layup put the Clippers, who led by nine earlier in the fourth, back in front 100-98.
Thomas made two free throws for another tie at 100-all. Griffin's driving dunk gave the Clippers back the lead 102-100 with 44 seconds left.
Paul fouled Thomas, who made both for a 102-all tie with 24 seconds left.
Thompson and Patterson combined on a 10-point run to open the fourth and give Sacramento a 79-78 lead. Travis Outlaw got called for a flagrant-2 foul for pulling down Redick on a fast break and was ejected.
"I don't think Outlaw is a dirty player despite his last name," Clippers coach Doc Rivers said. "But it was just that he was trying to stop the play and he got (Redick) around the neck. You have to throw the guy out."
Thomas disagreed.
"I didn't think it was a flagrant-2," he said. "Travis is a guy who's never even looking to do anything like that, and the first thing they think of is throwing him out of the game. We tried to play through it, but we just couldn't get the win."
Redick made just one of two free throws, tying the game at 79-all.
The Kings chipped away in the third and twice cut their deficit to two points before Cousins scored their final four points to trail 75-69 going into the fourth. The Clippers were 7 of 18 from the floor, got outrebounded 15-10 and missed 7 of 9 free throws.
The Clippers extended their lead to 40-20 in the second before the Kings outscored them 28-17 to end the half trailing 57-48.
"It's a mental thing. You have to stay locked in," Griffin said about blowing the big lead. "They played well in the second half, but I felt like it was on us. We relaxed too much."
The Clippers shot 62 percent in dominating the first. They ran off 16 unanswered points, including four 3-pointers in a row, to go up 21-8. Dudley hit back-to-back 3s in front of the Clippers' bench before they closed the quarter with six straight points to lead 29-13.
Notes: The Clippers won't have to face Derrick Rose when they play the Bulls on Sunday in a second consecutive 12:30 p.m. PST start. He hurt his right knee on Friday night in Portland and is out indefinitely. ... The Kings have just four win streaks of three games or more since December 2009.
and finally....
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/gametracker/recap/NBA_20131123_DAL@DEN
Nuggets 102, Mavs 100
Nov. 24, 2013
DENVER -- Randy Foye made a go-ahead 3-pointer in the waning moments and then helped it stand with his last-second defense.
Foye connected on his fifth 3-pointer of the game with 1:11 left, and the Denver Nuggets hung on to beat the Dallas Mavericks 102-100 on Saturday night.
"It was huge," Foye said. "I work extremely hard on my shot, so 5 for 12, 1 for 12, it doesn't matter, just got to continue to shoot the ball with confidence."
Ty Lawson scored 20 points to lead the Nuggets, who won their fifth straight at home while ending Dallas' four-game winning streak. Kenneth Faried had 18 points and 14 rebounds, and Foye finished with 17 points.
Dirk Nowitzki had 27 points but, with Foye contesting it, missed a shot at the end that would have sent the game into overtime.
"When I saw him with the ball, I thought, `I know he's going to hit me and I know he's going to fadeaway,'" Foye said. "I have no chance to block the shot, so don't let him get comfortable. When he bumped me a little bit, I nudged him back."
Nowitzki's shot ended up hitting off the rim.
"We ran a good play," Nowitzki said. "I thought Vince (Carter) was halfway open, decided not to shoot. Then we ran a little pick and roll and the clock was going down and I had to heave one. It was still a decent look to tie it, but it just didn't go in.
"I've got to be a little better down the stretch. I missed my last two or three shots."
Monta Ellis added 25 points and Carter had 16 for the Mavericks, who were without coach Rick Carlisle for most of the game after he drew two technical fouls in succession and was ejected by referee Tony Brothers with 5:14 remaining in the second quarter.
Carlisle was initially upset that officials didn't send Nowitzki to the free throw line, ruling the Mavericks forward was in the act of passing, not shooting, when he was fouled by Wilson Chandler.
Moments later, Ellis took a hard foul from Foye and was sent to the line, but Carlisle apparently was upset the foul wasn't considered flagrant and let Brothers know it, leading to his ejection.
"I thought the foul was excessive," Carlisle said. "I thought he fouled him and he came down on him extra hard. I'm going to stand up for my players."
Assistant coach Monte Mathis took over on the bench for Carlisle.
The Mavericks trailed by as many as 17 points early in the game and were down 65-53 at the half. But they fought back to 84-78 with 19 seconds remaining in the third quarter on a 3-pointer by Carter, his third 3-pointer in the period.
Carter hit another 3-pointer, pulling Dallas within 86-85 with 10:13 left to play.
Faried answered with a short jumper but Dallas got consecutive baskets from DeJuan Blair and Ellis to go in front 89-88, its first lead since midway through the first quarter.
The game remained tight in the final minutes, with the teams alternately taking the lead. Dallas put together a 6-0 run that included consecutive jumpers by Nowitzki that put the Mavs up 100-98 with 2:02 remaining.
That set the stage for Foye's go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:11 left to play as the Nuggets regained the lead 101-100.
After Nowitzki missed a jumper, Faried rebounded and was fouled by Blair, making one of the two free throws with 14.7 seconds left.
Nowitzki missed a long jumper in the final seconds as the Nuggets hung on.
"We're getting them, that's all that matters, as long we're getting the wins," Faried said. "I'm excited. The team is excited and the coach is excited."
Dallas, a 103-93 winner over Utah the night before, missed a chance to sweep a back-to-back for the first time this season. Denver improved to 49-8 since the start of the 2009-10 season when facing a team playing the second game of a back to back in the Mile High City.
Notes: The Nuggets' Andre Miller registered his 7,988th assist in the NBA on an alley-oop pass that Chandler converted into a dunk midway through the second quarter, surpassing Rod Strickland for ninth all time. ... Ellis has scored at least 18 points in each of the Mavericks' first 14 games. ... Chandler has scored 10 or more points in four of his first six games since returning from a hamstring injury that sidelined him for the first two weeks of the season. ... Faried recorded his sixth double double of the season and fifth in his past seven games. ... Dallas has gone 4-6 in its past 10 games in Denver.
credit: cbssports.com
Yesterday, 3 close victories last night in the NBA
Miami Heat def. Orlando Magic while the Los Angeles Clippers def. the Sacramento Kings and the Denver Nuggets def. the Dallas Mavericks and all 3 of them win it in their hometown courts
Here are the stories:
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/gametracker/recap/NBA_20131123_ORL@MIA
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb296/tnawrestlingfan/tnaimpactwrestlingfan/img24271360_zps5281f7f4.jpg
James' jumper helps Heat rally past pesky Orlando
Nov. 23, 2013
MIAMI -- The last offensive play for the Miami Heat did not go as planned. In the eyes of Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, the two-time defending NBA champions pretty much botched the whole thing.
Except the ending, that is.
"It helps to have LeBron James," Spoelstra said.
James bailed out the play -- and delivered the eventual game-winner in the process. His jumper with 15.1 seconds left provided the final points, and the Heat rallied from 16 down in the second half to beat the Orlando Magic 101-99 on Saturday night.
Dwyane Wade scored 27 points in his return to the lineup after missing two games to rest his knees, James added 22 and Chris Bosh had 15 for the Heat (10-3), who have won six straight. This marked the first time the Heat needed to rally in the final quarter.
"I cleared out and he did the rest," Wade said of Miami's final offensive play. "He made an unbelievable shot."
Glen Davis, playing for the first time since Jan. 30 because of a broken left foot, scored 20 points for the Magic, who fell to 0-5 on the road. Arron Afflalo and Victor Oladipo had shots in the final 5 seconds, but neither fell -- Oladipo's skipped off both sides of the rim -- and Miami escaped when James got the game's last rebound as time expired.
He threw the ball downcourt, tossed his headband and wristbands into the stands, and exhaled deeply.
"LeBron in space, and he'll take care of the rest," Spoelstra said of Miami's last play. "But the execution before that was extremely poor, very poor. And he just did what great players do. He was very relaxed, calm, got to a spot where he felt comfortable and shot a great in-rhythm jump shot that made all of us look better."
Afflalo scored 18, Oladipo added 17 and E'Twaun Moore had all of his 14 points in the first half for Orlando, which let one slip away. In the first 43 minutes, the Heat led for all of 54 seconds, and were getting blown out for a while.
In the end, they had the only lead that mattered.
"We know that they are a team that can get things going pretty quickly," Magic coach Jacque Vaughn said.
Bosh's jumper with 4:30 remaining put Miami up 89-88, and from there it got frantic to the end. James made a 3-pointer over Davis for another Heat lead with 3:47 left, then took a charge against the burly power forward 19 seconds later, grimacing as he got off the hardwood.
Miami led by four points on a pair of occasions, and the lead was three with just under a minute to play. Afflalo missed a 3-pointer that would have tied it, but Davis got the rebound, went into the lane, drew contact from Bosh and got a shot to fall. The free throw rattled and dropped with 37 seconds left, and the teams were tied at 99-all.
Orlando didn't score again.
"I wouldn't want to come back against no other team," said Davis, who got three stitches near his right eye after the game. "This was a great team to come back and play. I'm just happy to be back no matter if we're playing the NBA champs or we're playing (the New Orleans) Pelicans or something, I'm just happy to play basketball and show the world that I can contribute to a team. I'm just happy I'm back."
James added nine rebounds and seven assists for the Heat, plus reached double figures for the 508th straight regular-season game, tying Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the fifth-longest streak in NBA history.
Moore had all his points in the second quarter, on 5 for 5 shooting, 4 for 4 from 3-point range. When Afflalo got a 3-pointer to rattle off the rim a couple times and finally fall with 7 seconds left in the half, the Magic owned a 55-39 lead to take into the intermission.
By the time Orlando got its first points of the second half, that lead was largely gone.
Miami opened with 10 straight points in the third quarter, with James hitting a pair of 3-pointers and Wade capping it all by going down the middle of the lane for a dunk.
Just like that, 55-39 became 55-49, and the Heat had life. And in the end, they had a win as well, albeit a much tougher one than the 28-point romp at Orlando on Wednesday.
"That's the nature of the game," Wade said. "We knew they were going to play better tonight."
Notes: After playing twice in four days, the teams do not meet again until Miami visits Orlando on Jan. 4. ... James had a stuff-like-only-he-does sequence in the third quarter when he got a deflection and steal, gathered the loose ball, dribbled upcourt and threaded a one-handed crosscourt pass between plenty of Orlando defenders to set Ray Allen up for a 3-pointer.
Meanwhile....
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/gametracker/recap/NBA_20131123_SAC@LAC
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Paul keeps Clippers from collapsing against Sacramento
Nov. 23, 2013
LOS ANGELES -- The Clippers and the Kings were both mad about the 20-point difference in their game.
The Clippers were angry about blowing a big lead; the Kings didn't like being in that kind of hole and nearly digging themselves out only to lose.
Chris Paul scored 22 points, hitting a go-ahead free throw with 2.5 seconds left, to help Los Angeles win 103-102 Saturday.
"We've got to put teams away and not keep being in all these dogfights," Paul said. "It was kind of fitting we won with a defensive stop because we've been trying to improve our defense. Hopefully it gives us some confidence."
Paul got fouled and made the first, putting the Clippers ahead 103-102, but missed the second. After a timeout, DeAndre Jordan appeared to alter DeMarcus Cousins' jumper to preserve the win.
"The only thing they could get was a jump shot," Jordan said. "I was just praying they didn't call a foul. They gave me a block? That's awesome, I'll take it."
Actually, although a block was immediately posted in the statistics, officials took it away in the final box score, leaving Jordan with two blocks for the game.
Jordan had 17 points and 12 rebounds, and Blake Griffin finished with 16 points and 10 boards for the Clippers, who have won 11 of their last 13 against the Kings. J.J. Redick added 15 points.
Paul's NBA-record streak of 13 straight games with at least 10 points and 10 assists to start a season ended when he finished with nine assists.
Cousins had 23 points and 19 rebounds for the Kings, who had won two in a row.
Isaiah Thomas added 22 points, making 11 of 13 free throws, and Patrick Patterson scored 21 points off the bench, combining to outscore the Clippers' reserves.
Afterward, Cousins tried to pull Thomas away from Jamal Crawford as they went to shake hands.
"That's just DeMarcus," Thomas said, laughing. "He gets upset. He doesn't like anybody on the other team, and that's how he is. I'm all for it, but I just had to shake my guy Jamal's hand."
Jared Dudley didn't think much of Cousins' move.
"It's bad sportsmanship," he said. "He's better than that. Someone will talk to him."
Thomas and Patterson carried the Kings in the fourth, when Cousins was limited to four points and picked up two fouls on the same play.
"I'm tired of being a part of going down 20 and then trying to come back later in the game," Cousins said. "The way we played the last stretch of that game, we've got to start games off the same way so that we won't be in those situations and we'd have a better chance."
Dudley's 3-pointer pulled the Clippers to 96-95 and then Paul's 3 tied it at 98-all with 1:29 to play.
Cousins missed a pair of free throws before Paul's driving layup put the Clippers, who led by nine earlier in the fourth, back in front 100-98.
Thomas made two free throws for another tie at 100-all. Griffin's driving dunk gave the Clippers back the lead 102-100 with 44 seconds left.
Paul fouled Thomas, who made both for a 102-all tie with 24 seconds left.
Thompson and Patterson combined on a 10-point run to open the fourth and give Sacramento a 79-78 lead. Travis Outlaw got called for a flagrant-2 foul for pulling down Redick on a fast break and was ejected.
"I don't think Outlaw is a dirty player despite his last name," Clippers coach Doc Rivers said. "But it was just that he was trying to stop the play and he got (Redick) around the neck. You have to throw the guy out."
Thomas disagreed.
"I didn't think it was a flagrant-2," he said. "Travis is a guy who's never even looking to do anything like that, and the first thing they think of is throwing him out of the game. We tried to play through it, but we just couldn't get the win."
Redick made just one of two free throws, tying the game at 79-all.
The Kings chipped away in the third and twice cut their deficit to two points before Cousins scored their final four points to trail 75-69 going into the fourth. The Clippers were 7 of 18 from the floor, got outrebounded 15-10 and missed 7 of 9 free throws.
The Clippers extended their lead to 40-20 in the second before the Kings outscored them 28-17 to end the half trailing 57-48.
"It's a mental thing. You have to stay locked in," Griffin said about blowing the big lead. "They played well in the second half, but I felt like it was on us. We relaxed too much."
The Clippers shot 62 percent in dominating the first. They ran off 16 unanswered points, including four 3-pointers in a row, to go up 21-8. Dudley hit back-to-back 3s in front of the Clippers' bench before they closed the quarter with six straight points to lead 29-13.
Notes: The Clippers won't have to face Derrick Rose when they play the Bulls on Sunday in a second consecutive 12:30 p.m. PST start. He hurt his right knee on Friday night in Portland and is out indefinitely. ... The Kings have just four win streaks of three games or more since December 2009.
and finally....
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/gametracker/recap/NBA_20131123_DAL@DEN
Nuggets 102, Mavs 100
Nov. 24, 2013
DENVER -- Randy Foye made a go-ahead 3-pointer in the waning moments and then helped it stand with his last-second defense.
Foye connected on his fifth 3-pointer of the game with 1:11 left, and the Denver Nuggets hung on to beat the Dallas Mavericks 102-100 on Saturday night.
"It was huge," Foye said. "I work extremely hard on my shot, so 5 for 12, 1 for 12, it doesn't matter, just got to continue to shoot the ball with confidence."
Ty Lawson scored 20 points to lead the Nuggets, who won their fifth straight at home while ending Dallas' four-game winning streak. Kenneth Faried had 18 points and 14 rebounds, and Foye finished with 17 points.
Dirk Nowitzki had 27 points but, with Foye contesting it, missed a shot at the end that would have sent the game into overtime.
"When I saw him with the ball, I thought, `I know he's going to hit me and I know he's going to fadeaway,'" Foye said. "I have no chance to block the shot, so don't let him get comfortable. When he bumped me a little bit, I nudged him back."
Nowitzki's shot ended up hitting off the rim.
"We ran a good play," Nowitzki said. "I thought Vince (Carter) was halfway open, decided not to shoot. Then we ran a little pick and roll and the clock was going down and I had to heave one. It was still a decent look to tie it, but it just didn't go in.
"I've got to be a little better down the stretch. I missed my last two or three shots."
Monta Ellis added 25 points and Carter had 16 for the Mavericks, who were without coach Rick Carlisle for most of the game after he drew two technical fouls in succession and was ejected by referee Tony Brothers with 5:14 remaining in the second quarter.
Carlisle was initially upset that officials didn't send Nowitzki to the free throw line, ruling the Mavericks forward was in the act of passing, not shooting, when he was fouled by Wilson Chandler.
Moments later, Ellis took a hard foul from Foye and was sent to the line, but Carlisle apparently was upset the foul wasn't considered flagrant and let Brothers know it, leading to his ejection.
"I thought the foul was excessive," Carlisle said. "I thought he fouled him and he came down on him extra hard. I'm going to stand up for my players."
Assistant coach Monte Mathis took over on the bench for Carlisle.
The Mavericks trailed by as many as 17 points early in the game and were down 65-53 at the half. But they fought back to 84-78 with 19 seconds remaining in the third quarter on a 3-pointer by Carter, his third 3-pointer in the period.
Carter hit another 3-pointer, pulling Dallas within 86-85 with 10:13 left to play.
Faried answered with a short jumper but Dallas got consecutive baskets from DeJuan Blair and Ellis to go in front 89-88, its first lead since midway through the first quarter.
The game remained tight in the final minutes, with the teams alternately taking the lead. Dallas put together a 6-0 run that included consecutive jumpers by Nowitzki that put the Mavs up 100-98 with 2:02 remaining.
That set the stage for Foye's go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:11 left to play as the Nuggets regained the lead 101-100.
After Nowitzki missed a jumper, Faried rebounded and was fouled by Blair, making one of the two free throws with 14.7 seconds left.
Nowitzki missed a long jumper in the final seconds as the Nuggets hung on.
"We're getting them, that's all that matters, as long we're getting the wins," Faried said. "I'm excited. The team is excited and the coach is excited."
Dallas, a 103-93 winner over Utah the night before, missed a chance to sweep a back-to-back for the first time this season. Denver improved to 49-8 since the start of the 2009-10 season when facing a team playing the second game of a back to back in the Mile High City.
Notes: The Nuggets' Andre Miller registered his 7,988th assist in the NBA on an alley-oop pass that Chandler converted into a dunk midway through the second quarter, surpassing Rod Strickland for ninth all time. ... Ellis has scored at least 18 points in each of the Mavericks' first 14 games. ... Chandler has scored 10 or more points in four of his first six games since returning from a hamstring injury that sidelined him for the first two weeks of the season. ... Faried recorded his sixth double double of the season and fifth in his past seven games. ... Dallas has gone 4-6 in its past 10 games in Denver.
credit: cbssports.com