DENVER (AP) — J.J. Redick scored 24 points, DeAndre Jordan had 14 points and 22 rebounds and the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Denver Nuggets 107-92 on Saturday night.

Chris Paul had 23 points and nine assists for the Clippers, who moved a half-game ahead of San Antonio for the fifth seed in the Western Conference with their ninth win in 10 games. They are just a game back of Memphis for the third seed and host the Grizzlies next Saturday.

Los Angeles has just two road games remaining, although one of them is against the Lakers at Staples Center.

On Saturday, the Clippers made themselves at home at Pepsi Center against a depleted Nuggets team, missing point guard and leading scorer Ty Lawson due to a sore right forearm. The Nuggets were further short-handed when backup Jameer Nelson left in the second quarter with a right hip flexor strain.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Danny Green scored 21 points, including 6-for-6 shooting on 3-pointers, and the San Antonio Spurs cruised to a 123-93 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Friday night after losing Tiago Splitter to a right calf injury during a strong start.

Kawhi Leonard had 20 points and Aron Baynes added 18 points in 19 minutes for San Antonio, which has won six straight.

Danilo Galinari scored 20 points to lead Denver and Jameer Nelson added 14. The Nuggets trailed by as many as 37 points despite shooting 47 percent from the field.

The Spurs (50-26) extended their league record of consecutive 50-win seasons to 16 straight. San Antonio moved into a tie with the Los Angeles Clippers for fifth in the Western Conference.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Rudy Gobert scored a career-high 20 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and had two blocks as the Utah Jazz cruised past the Denver Nuggets 98-84 on Wednesday night.

Gobert was coming off his 22nd double-double of the season Monday.

There wasn’t much on the line with both teams out of the playoff race, but Jazz coach Quin Snyder said there’s plenty to work on during the final eight games of the season. That was clear after a lackluster first quarter.

The Nuggets scored 29 first-quarter points, then 30 in the second and third quarters combined.

Derrick Favors scored 19, had seven rebounds and three blocks as the Jazz frontcourt dominated. Dante Exum had a career-high 12 assists.

Kenneth Faried scored 19 points and added 10 rebounds for the Nuggets, while Ty Lawson finished with 15.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — LaMarcus Aldridge had 32 points and 11 rebounds, and the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Denver Nuggets 120-114 on Saturday night for their third consecutive victory.

Portland increased its Northwest Division lead to 6 1/2 games over second-place Oklahoma City, which lost to Utah 94-89. The Blazers have 10 games remaining in the regular season, the Thunder nine.

Aldridge shot 6 of 8 and scored 16 points during the third quarter to help Portland increase a five-point halftime lead to 86-78.

Arron Afflalo scored 21 points, his Portland high since he was acquired from Denver on Feb. 19. Nicolas Batum added 15 points and Chris Kaman 14 for the Blazers.

Jameer Nelson scored 22 and Randy Foye 17 as Denver had seven players reach double figures.

DENVER (AP) — Ty Lawson and Jameer Nelson each scored 18 points as the Denver Nuggets beat Utah 107-91 on Friday night, handing the Jazz their fourth straight loss.

Right around tip-off, the Jazz announced Hot Rod Hundley, the former NBA player who broadcast Jazz games in New Orleans and Utah for 35 years, had died. He was 80. Hundley called 3,051 Jazz games from 1974-2009. There was a tribute to Hundley before the game.

Danilo Gallinari played with a sore right triceps and finished with 13 points for the Nuggets, who never trailed after he gave them a 3-0 lead on a long jumper moments into the game.

Denver improved to 8-6 since interim coach Melvin Hunt took over for Brian Shaw.

Gordon Hayward scored 24 points in his return after sitting out two games with a sprained shoulder. Rudy Gobert finished with 14 points and 14 points for his 18th double-double.

DENVER (AP) — Rookie Robert Covington tied a career high with 25 points and the Philadelphia 76ers beat the Denver Nuggets 99-85 on Wednesday night.

Nerlens Noel had 14 points and 15 rebounds for the 76ers, who swept the season series from the Nuggets.

Ty Lawson scored 19 points and Wilson Chandler had 16 points and 11 rebounds for the Nuggets.

Covington, who also tied a career high with six 3-pointers, scored 15 points in a 6:16 span of the third quarter to give Philadelphia a 66-62 lead.

Denver responded with a 14-6 run to end the third. Lawson hit a pair of 3-pointers, the second of which gave the Nuggets a 74-72 lead with 30 seconds left in the third quarter. Denver led by four midway through the fourth when Ish Smith drove in for a layup and Noel’s rebound and layup tied it at 79.

Philadelphia took control from there.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Danilo Gallinari scored a career-high 40 points and former Magic guard Jameer Nelson came off the bench to ignite a big rally Sunday night, leading the Denver Nuggets to a 119-100 victory over Orlando.

Gallinari made 12 of 21 shots, including six 3-pointers, for the Nuggets, who broke a three-game losing streak.

Nelson finished with 15 points, 13 during a 43-12 run over a 10-minute span of the first half which gave the Nuggets a 63-37 lead.

Victor Oladipo led the Magic with 20 points. Elfrid Payton, who on Friday night became the first NBA rookie in 18 years to record two straight triple-doubles, finished with six points, eight rebounds, eight assists and five turnovers.

The Nuggets broke an 11-game losing streak against Eastern Conference opponents on the road.

MIAMI (AP) — Dwyane Wade scored 22 points, Goran Dragic added 18 and the Miami Heat clamped down in the fourth quarter to beat the Denver Nuggets 108-91 on Friday night.

Luol Deng scored 15, Hassan Whiteside added 14 and Mario Chalmers had 10 for Miami, which won its third straight game — its longest such streak since starting 3-0.

Michael Beasley added nine points, eight rebounds and seven assists for the Heat.

Kenneth Faried scored 20 for Denver, which got 16 apiece from Jusef Nurkic and Randy Foye.

The Nuggets missed 13 of their first 14 shots from the field in the fourth — plus their first six tries from the foul line in that quarter. Miami wasn’t much better, but even 10 points in the first 9 minutes of the final period were enough for the Heat to pull away.

The Heat have won a season-best four straight at home.

HOUSTON (AP) — James Harden scored a career-high 50 points with 10 rebounds to lead the Houston Rockets to a 118-108 win over the Denver Nuggets on Thursday night.

Harden eclipsed his previous career-best of 46, set in 2013, on a free throw with about a minute remaining. On Houston’s next possession, Trevor Ariza found him in the corner and he swished a 3 under heavy pressure, to make it 50.

Six straight points by the Nuggets cut the lead to 8 with about five minutes left when the Rockets made the next five points, capped by a step back jump shot from Harden, to make it 104-91. Harden scored seven points after that to secure the victory.

It was the 29th game Harden had at least 30 points.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Tony Allen factor is hard to ignore when the Memphis Grizzlies are turning back opponents’ rallies.

Allen’s energy along with a double-double from Zach Randolph helped the Grizzlies pull away from the Denver Nuggets for a 92-81 victory on Monday night.

Randolph finished with 21 points and 16 rebounds, while Allen and Marc Gasol added 14 points apiece. Allen had 10 points and eight of his nine rebounds after halftime.

“I want to take advantage of my opportunities,” said Allen, who has come off the bench since the Grizzlies obtained Jeff Green from Boston in January. “Some games I’m better than others. I don’t think it’s anything special.”

But Allen provides a disruption and an energy that even Nuggets interim coach Melvin Hunt acknowledged is hard to ignore.

“Tony Allen is a difference-maker,” Hunt said. “It doesn’t show up in the stat sheet, but he disrupted several plays. . He turned the game for them with his pressure and his intensity.”

Memphis broke a 79-all tie in the fourth quarter by outscoring Denver 13-2 the rest of the way. In that run, Allen had a pair of rebounds, an assist and a steal leading to his only score in the span, a dunk for the game’s final margin.

“Tony Allen really changed the game,” said Nuggets guard Randy Foye, who had 16 points.

Jameer Nelson scored 24 points for the Nuggets on 11-of-18 shooting, while Wilson Chandler added 13 for Denver.

“I can’t say enough about Jameer Nelson,” Hunt said. “Every time we needed a basket, we needed a play, whether it was offense or defense, he gave everything.”

The Nuggets, whose four-game winning streak ended, were coming off a double-overtime win at New Orleans on Sunday. Denver rested starters Ty Lawson, Kenneth Faried and Danilo Gallinari, eliminating an average of 38.6 points.

Without Faried, Denver’s leading rebounder, Memphis dominated the boards 57-37. That included 20 offensive rebounds for Memphis, contributing to a 17-2 advantage in second-chance points.

“We knew that they were going to throw the ball up there, and kind of get the shot back and throw it up there again,” Foye said.

Memphis had crafted a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter, but Denver changed the momentum as Nelson and Gary Harris made 3-pointers. A dunk by J.J. Hickson and another basket from Nelson comprised a 10-0 run for Denver near the midway point of the fourth to tie the game at 79.

Memphis then made its final push to collect a double-digit victory.

“We just said we have got to execute, and get the ball where it needs to go and play a lot faster,” Memphis coach Dave Joerger said of the timeout he called with the score tied at 79.

Joerger acknowledged the difference Allen makes, primarily on defense, but also his ability to find open spots on the floor offensively.

“He comes in and turns the water off on a different guy then goes to another guy,” Joerger said of Allen’s defense, later adding: “He did a great job defensively, especially coming back to get some rebounds that we needed.”

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TIP-INS:

Nuggets: The Nuggets were playing the second game of a season-high, five-game road trip. … Reserve swingman Will Barton played collegiately at the University of Memphis. .. Nelson, Darrell Arthur and Jusuf Nurkic started in place of the three regulars who rested.

Grizzlies: Starting guard Mike Conley missed his third straight game with a right ankle sprain. … Memphis defeated Milwaukee at home Saturday. Monday’s home game marked the first time this month the Grizzles have played consecutive games in the same city.

EXTREMES

Despite the 11-point margin, the game was close compared to the previous two meetings. The Nuggets defeated Memphis by 29 in Denver on Jan. 3, and the Grizzlies won by 30 in Memphis later that month — the two extremes for victory and defeat margins for Memphis this season.

UP NEXT:

Nuggets: Visit Houston on Thursday.

Grizzlies: Visit Pistons on Tuesday