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Nuggets vs Clippers Live Stream: Taken as a whole, it has been a cringeworthy stretch of basketball for the Clippers, worsened by the fact that the Lakers — who share the Staples Center arena with them in Los Angeles — are awaiting the winner in the conference finals. The Lakers will be well rested by Game 1 on Friday night. The Clippers just hope to still be playing by then.

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“Listen, when you decide to be a coach, it’s not going to be roses every day,” Rivers said. “So we clearly have the right formula as far as how we’re playing, and then we keep losing it.”

Expectations are different for the Clippers this season. Far removed from their laughingstock years, they have championship aspirations. They might even be favorites — or at least they were. But for a franchise that has never advanced to a conference finals, the Clippers are finding it increasingly difficult to separate themselves from their past.

Presented with two opportunities to close out the Nuggets in the conference semifinals, the Clippers have now blown both. On Friday, they wasted a 16-point lead in a Game 5 loss. On Sunday, they disintegrated again as the Nuggets erased a 19-point deficit in a 111-98 win, evening the best-of-seven series at three games apiece. Game 7 is Tuesday night.

Conventional wisdom suggests the Nuggets would be better off not putting themselves in a double-digit hole come Game 7, but almost everything about this team is unorthodox. Not much passes for normal when your center is actually a point guard trapped inside a 7-footer’s body.

“We don’t want to be in that spot, but it seems like we are good in that spot,” Nikola Jokic said of his team’s penchant for digging out of big deficits after Game 6.

The Clippers, who’ve lost two straight closeout games and are now 0-7 in their history when trying to clinch a spot in the conference finals, would be better off worrying about themselves than trying to rationalize whatever is happening inside Denver’s locker room. So far this postseason the Nuggets have staved off five elimination games, including three that featured deficits of at least 15 points in the second half. Instead of stress, the Nuggets shrug.

To win Game 7, which would be the first time in NBA history a team had come back from separate 3-1 deficits in the same postseason, the Nuggets must play their brand of basketball. A look at the keys:

1. Avoid double-digit deficits
Before the Nuggets clawed back from a 19-point deficit in Game 6, they were actually already down 12 only a minute into the second quarter. Jokic’s goofy, one-legged 3-pointer cut the deficit to two before the Clippers swarmed and built what seemed like an insurmountable lead.

Despite what the Nuggets and Jokic may say, there are nerves associated with elimination games. Denver can combat those nerves by being aggressive from the jump. That means playing selfless, purposeful basketball on offense and busting through screens and crashing the glass on defense.

Tough, physical defense will open up the Nuggets’ transition game, leading to easy points, while simultaneously making the Clippers work on offense. At the same time, the Nuggets can’t afford to turn the ball over, like they did 10 times in the first half of Game 6.

2. Bench play
Nuggets coach Michael Malone was only half kidding when he said the NBA would soon be re-naming the Sixth Man of the Year Award after Clippers reserve Lou Williams, a three-time winner. It was only last week that Williams’ teammate Montrezl Harrell won his first.

The Clippers were heralded as the deepest team in the league all season. And yet throughout this series, Williams and Harrell have combined for 20.8 points per game — 16 less than their regular-season averages. Williams has shot 13% from 3-point range, and reserve guard Landry Shamet has connected on just 17.6% from outside.

Conversely, Denver’s bench has been superb.

Point guard Monte Morris has done everything Malone could ask for and more, drilling timely baskets and setting the table for his scorers. In their three wins, Morris has averaged almost 11 points off the bench on 54% shooting.

Michael Porter Jr. has steadily earned the trust of Malone at the defensive end while providing clutch 3-pointers on the other. His defensive effort at the end of Game 5 was invaluable.

Their other two key reserves, Mason Plumlee and Torrey Craig, have played their roles almost perfectly. For Plumlee, that means defensive energy, hard fouls and strong screens, and for Craig, that means hounding the Clippers’ wings.

3. Star power
The Nuggets knew the challenge they were in trying to limit Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. Both the two-way stars have been electric and caused myriad defensive problems.Leonard’s bullish style is grueling for anyone to stop — his strength and ability to get to his spots is almost unmatched in the NBA. And George has been a two-way terror, causing all kinds of headaches for Jamal Murray and draining 43% of his more than eight 3-point attempts per game. Together, they’ve averaged almost 50 points per game. And still, it’s probably fair to say that Jerami Grant and Gary Harris have done an admirable job guarding them.

But there’s something to be said about comfort. Leonard and George have never gone into a Game 7 environment together. Jokic and Murray have on three separate occasions, including in the last round against Utah.

Jokic’s attitude toward elimination has been well-documented. The pressure of going home doesn’t faze him. His numbers over those five elimination games are staggering.

Game 7 may come down to Murray’s ability to shake the avalanche of defenders coming his way. In their three wins, Murray’s averaged 24.7 points, including 53% shooting on 3s, six assists and 5.3 rebounds. In their losses, those numbers have plummeted to 14.7 points, on 33% 3-point shooting, 7.3 assists and 3.7 rebounds. To free up Murray, the Nuggets have to get stops, rebound and run. If they do that, they might just shock the world.If you get through this, it will definitely serve you well,” Rivers said. “There’s no doubt about that. Because when you go through things like this and adversity and you come out of it the other end, on the right end of it, it absolutely makes you a better team.”

This is not the same Clippers team that, in 2015, blew a 3-1 series lead to the Houston Rockets in the conference semifinals, losing in seven games. Chris Paul and Blake Griffin, the leaders of that group, are long gone. Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, who were brought in at no small cost last off-season to push a playoff-ready team over the top, have nothing to do with any of the franchise’s unfortunate history, of course. But perhaps the psychic wounds linger, and the reminders of past flameouts have been amplified in recent days.

“It’s pressure every game,” Leonard said. “Obviously, nobody wants to go home. But just got to go out there, play your game and live with the results.”

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The Nuggets are a problem. They seem entirely unfazed by dire circumstances. In the first round, they trailed the Utah Jazz, 3-1, in their best-of-seven series before coming all the way back behind the tag-team brilliance of Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray. Now, against the Clippers, the Nuggets are trying to do it again.

No player in the series has been more fearsome than Jokic, who has averaged 25.8 points and 12 rebounds while shooting 53 percent from the field. On Sunday, the Nuggets outscored the Clippers by 62-30 over the game’s final 22 minutes. Jokic finished with 34 points.

“Give them credit,” Rivers said of the Nuggets. “They’re playing hard. We’re playing the third-best team in the West, and they’re good, they’re relentless, resilient. But what we’ve done to get the leads has worked continuously, and then we stop doing it.”

Specifically, he said, the Clippers stopped moving the ball. And as their lead washed away in the fourth quarter, Rivers searched for solutions. He even summoned Reggie Jackson, a reserve who had played sparingly in the series, off the bench. “We needed someone to make a shot,” Rivers said. (Jackson did not attempt one in 59 seconds of playing time.)

In the Clippers’ 50 years of existence, they have made 15 trips to the playoffs and eight appearances in the conference semifinals, dating to their days as the Buffalo Braves. But that is as far as they have ever gone.

The Clippers still hope that they can push through that barrier with one more win, but they have endured their share of obstacles. They have seldom seemed whole since the start of the season — so many months ago. George, for example, missed the team’s first 11 games after off-season shoulder surgery, then Leonard was sidelined with a knee contusion after George finally joined the starting lineup.The season restart inside the bubble at Walt Disney World has presented its own challenges. George has spoken about his struggles acclimating to life in the bubble. Montrezl Harrell, the league’s Sixth Man of the Year Award winner, was gone for a month as he grieved the death of his grandmother, and he has labored to find his form in the playoffs. Patrick Beverley, who fouled out in less than 18 minutes on Sunday, has been slowed by a calf injury. And Lou Williams has been wildly inconsistent, shooting 23.4 percent from 3-point range through the first two rounds.

For much of the season, the Clippers expressed confidence — through all the injuries and absences, through all the growing pains and ups and downs — that they would be able to assemble the pieces when it mattered most. But abundant talent does not always translate into cohesive play, and the dress rehearsals are over.

“They know they have an opportunity,” Rivers said. “They want to win worse than everybody.”