Denver beat San Antonio 136-134 in overtime on Saturday, handing the Spurs the end of their 11-game winning streak and setting up a rematch that now carries even more weight. Nikola Jokić led the Nuggets with 40 points, 13 assists, eight rebounds and three blocks, while Victor Wembanyama delivered 34 points, 18 rebounds, seven assists and five blocks in defeat.
The game turned in the final seconds of regulation, when Aaron Gordon tied it at 124-124 with a cutting dunk before Dylan Harper answered with a long 3-pointer at the buzzer for San Antonio. The finish captured the whole night: two teams playing at a level that looked closer to a postseason chase than a regular-season game, with Wembanyama's victor wembanyama stats standing out even in a loss.
San Antonio came in second in the Western Conference with four games left on its schedule and a 59-19 record, two wins behind the Oklahoma City Thunder and 8.5 games ahead of the third-place Los Angeles Lakers. The loss did not change the Spurs' place in the standings, but it did stop a run that had carried them through the past two weeks. Denver, meanwhile, stretched its own surge to eight straight games.
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That is what makes this result matter now. The Spurs have been winning cleanly enough to coast toward the finish, but Saturday showed how thin the margin can be against a contender with a player like Jokić controlling the game late. The Nuggets and Spurs will meet again in San Antonio on April 12 for the regular-season finale, and after this one, both sides know exactly how little space there is between control and chaos.
