Thumbs up: NBA TV Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Get ready for the NBA TV game Tuesday between the Los Angeles Lakers (11-8) and the Denver Nuggets (13-7) with seven key statistics to know about the match. The Lakers won the first game of the season – 121-114 on October 25 – and have won seven of their last 10 games. Denver enters tonight's game on a three-game winning streak.

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Los Angeles Lakers in Denver Nuggets, 9:00 ET, NBA TV

• The Nuggets are averaging 325 assists per game in wins, down from 268.8 in losses, making it the league's second-biggest league win / loss differential. (1st – Celtics 58.1, 2nd – Nuggets 56.4, 3rd – Indiana 55.9).

• Nikola Jokic is third in the NBA in number of passes per game (63.6) and currently leads all centers in number of assistances per game with 7.2 (Anthony Davis is 2nd with 4.9).

• Jamal Murray is the only player in the 2016 draft class to have scored more than 40 points in a game. In all, there were six games in which a player in that class scored 35 points or more, Murray half.

• The Nuggets have five players with a double-digit average in points, led by Jamal Murray (17.4), Gary Harris (16.8) and Nikola Jokic (16.6).

• The Lakers averaged 56.4 points in the paint, 2nd in the league. LeBron is the 7th player, scoring 12.9 on 28.3 points.

• Since the Tyson Chandler Lakers' first game on November 7, the Lakers are 7-2 and have an excellent defense of 94.6 when they are on the ground. Over this period, his defensive rating on / off is better on the Lakers and his defensive ranking is third in the NBA (min 20 minutes per game).

• LeBron James' 35.1 minutes per game is currently the lowest in his career. Despite the reduced workload, he had the highest number of points in 36 minutes of his career (29.1 vs 27.4 in 09-10).