On January 26, Beijing time, the NBA regular season, the Nuggets against the Pistons, in this game, the confrontation between Jokic and Champion Cunningham is highly anticipated by the outside world. In this campaign, these two players also have a very good performance, of which Jokic got a gorgeous stat of 28 points, 21 rebounds and 9 assists in this campaign, which helped the team win the game. And Cunningham played a performance that filled the data column, he had 34 points, 8 rebounds, 8 assists, 2 steals and 4 blocks in the whole game, and 34 points in a single game also created a new single-game scoring record in Cunningham's career, and this was also the first time in his career that he scored 30+ points, but unfortunately, in the case of setting a new career high, he was not able to lead the team to win, and the Pistons eventually lost to the Nuggets 105-110, suffering three consecutive losses, and the Nuggets won two consecutive wins.
In this game, the two teams still played very stiffly, and in the first quarter of the game, the two teams staged a confrontational battle on the offensive end, and the score alternated to lead. In this quarter, Jokic had 11 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists, while Cunningham also had 13 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists, and both teams performed well at the core, and in the first quarter of the game, the Nuggets only led the Pistons by 2 points.
In the second quarter, the Nuggets began to exert their strength, the team relied on the role players to play, they played a wave of high-quality counterattack offense, the team exploded 35-27 offense in a single quarter, and won 8 points in a single quarter. By the end of the half, the Nuggets had managed to close the gap to 10 points.
In the third quarter, the Nuggets also maintained a score lead, and they played well overall, not giving the Pistons too many counter-attack opportunities. At the end of the third quarter, the Nuggets extended their lead again, and they took a 12-point lead.
In the final quarter, the Pistons began to fight back, and under cunningham,they blasted a 17-9 offensive run to close the deficit to four points. At the crucial moment, Cunningham did not hit the shot, and then the team was only able to take foul tactics, and the game lost suspense. In the end, the Nuggets beat the Pistons by 5 points to win the game.
Jokic and Cunningham both had a very bright performance in this game, and Jokic played at the MVP level against Cunningham, setting a number of records. He had a luxurious stat of 28 points, 21 rebounds and 9 assists in the game, and he reached a personal milestone in this campaign, with more than 3,000 assists and more than 5,000 career rebounds. He also became the first player in the history of the Nuggets to achieve this achievement, and he only used 494 games to get such data, becoming the first player in NBA history to get such data in less than 500 games, and Jokic not only helped the team win the game, he also set a record, and the performance can be described as very good.
Cunningham was not inferior in his performance against regular season MVP Jokic, who had 34 points, 8 rebounds, 8 assists, 2 steals and 4 blocks in the whole game, and set a career high of 34 points in a single game. At the same time, he shot six three-pointers on the outside, the sixth game of his career, and he became the rookie who shot at least 5+ three-pointers in a single game in the first 38 games in the history of the league, and Cunningham also performed well. Unfortunately, the Pistons' overall strength is still inferior to the Nuggets, which also led to the team's eventual loss, and Cunningham became an empty cut.