Denver 127, L.A. Lakers 139

April 25, 1987

Opening Round - Los Angeles wins 3-0

The Forum (Inglewood, California)

Attendance: 17,297

Officials: Ronnie Nunn, Hugh Evans, Bill Saar

Team Rebounds: Denver (0) Los Angeles (0)

Technicals: Denver (0) Los Angeles (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
DEN (37-45) 23 32 33 39 127
LAL (65-17) 40 33 32 34 139

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
DEN 110 116.0 126.9
LAL 110 126.9 116.0

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
DEN .537 0.155 0.278 0.263
LAL .500 0.110 0.326 0.544

Denver Nuggets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
2 Alex English Starter PF 23:00 7-10 0-0 3-4 5.8 2 1 3 1 6 0 0 3 17
24 Bill Hanzlik Starter SF 37:00 4-11 0-1 4-7 4.9 0 3 3 3 1 2 0 3 12
12 Fat Lever Starter PG 38:00 10-22 1-3 5-5 25.6 2 8 10 9 2 3 0 1 26
41 Blair Rasmussen Starter C 34:00 5-11 0-0 4-4 7.0 0 3 3 3 5 1 1 2 14
- Darrell Walker Starter SG 32:00 8-17 0-0 4-5 9.4 2 4 6 2 4 2 0 3 20
32 Mark Alarie Bench PF 06:00 3-4 0-0 0-0 1.2 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 1 6
42 Wayne Cooper Bench C 12:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 -3.0 0 1 1 0 4 0 0 1 0
23 T.R. Dunn Bench SG 04:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
5 Mike Evans Bench PG 13:00 5-7 1-2 2-2 10.2 0 1 1 3 1 1 0 1 13
11 Maurice Martin Bench SF 13:00 5-8 0-0 1-1 8.6 2 2 4 3 5 0 0 0 11
34 Danny Schayes Bench C 26:00 3-4 0-0 0-0 4.2 2 1 3 1 5 1 1 2 6
22 Otis Smith Bench SG 02:00 0-0 0-0 2-4 2.5 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2
  Team                                
        240 50-95 2-6 25-32 104.8 10 26 36 26 37 10 3 17 127
          52.6% 33.3% 78.1%                    

Los Angeles Lakers

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
33 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Starter C 25:00 8-13 0-0 12-12 23.8 2 4 6 3 2 0 4 1 28
45 A.C. Green Starter PF 29:00 3-11 0-0 10-11 12.6 5 8 13 0 2 1 0 2 16
32 Magic Johnson Starter PG 35:00 7-12 0-1 7-8 28.2 3 5 8 15 3 2 1 4 21
4 Byron Scott Starter SG 37:00 4-11 0-3 8-10 7.2 0 1 1 2 3 1 1 0 16
42 James Worthy Starter SF 35:00 7-12 0-0 5-6 12.5 0 3 3 3 3 1 2 2 19
24 Adrian Branch Bench SF 02:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 1.0 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 0
21 Michael Cooper Bench SG 24:00 4-9 2-3 2-2 11.0 0 4 4 4 1 0 0 0 12
1 Wes Matthews Bench PG 05:00 2-3 0-0 0-0 1.0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 4
18 Kurt Rambis Bench PF 19:00 5-8 0-0 2-2 12.2 4 2 6 2 5 3 0 1 12
52 Mike Smrek Bench C 02:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 -1.2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
43 Mychal Thompson Bench C 21:00 3-6 0-0 1-2 6.8 0 2 2 2 1 1 1 0 7
55 Billy Thompson Bench SF 06:00 1-3 0-0 2-2 0.5 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4
  Team                                
        240 44-90 2-7 49-55 121.6 15 31 46 32 23 9 9 12 139
          48.9% 28.6% 89.1%                    

Denver Nuggets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Fat Lever
18.9p, 8.9r, 8a		 Darrell Walker
12.2p, 4r, 3.5a		 Bill Hanzlik
13p, 3.5r, 3.8a		 Alex English
28.6p, 4.2r, 5.1a		 Blair Rasmussen
9.5p, 6.3r, 0.8a
Rotation Mike Evans
10.1p, 1.6r, 2.3a		  
 		 Maurice Martin
3.4p, 1r, 0.8a		  
 		 Danny Schayes
8.5p, 5r, 1.1a
Rotation  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 		 Wayne Cooper
8p, 6.8r, 1a
Lim PT  
 		 T.R. Dunn
3.4p, 3.3r, 1.8a		  
 		 Mark Alarie
7.9p, 3.3r, 1.2a		  
 
Lim PT  
 		 Otis Smith
2.8p, 1.2r, 0.8a		  
 		  
 		  
 

Los Angeles Lakers Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Magic Johnson
23.9p, 6.3r, 12.2a		 Byron Scott
17p, 3.5r, 3.4a		 James Worthy
19.4p, 5.7r, 2.8a		 A.C. Green
10.8p, 7.8r, 1.1a		 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
17.5p, 6.7r, 2.6a
Rotation  
 		 Michael Cooper
10.5p, 3.1r, 4.5a		  
 		 Kurt Rambis
5.7p, 5.8r, 0.8a		 Mychal Thompson
11.4p, 5r, 1.4a
Lim PT Wes Matthews
4.2p, 0.9r, 2a		  
 		 Billy Thompson
5.6p, 2.9r, 1a		  
 		 Mike Smrek
2.2p, 1.1r, 0.1a
Lim PT  
 		  
 		 Adrian Branch
4.3p, 1.7r, 0.5a		  
 		  
 

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