Live updates, tweets, photos, analysis and more from the Denver Nuggets’ Game 2 matchup against the Los Angeles Lakers at Ball Arena in Denver on May 18, 2023. Nuggets-Lakers Game 2: Must reads Nuggets’ Bruce Brown: “Goal” was to take Lakers’ D’Angelo Russell out of the game When Bruce Brown lowers his shoulder, not many defenders have the bulk to stop him. That’s especially true in transition, where Brown rumbled for five of his six made baskets against the Lakers in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals. When Brown picked his head up and saw Lakers guard D’Angelo Russell staring back at him, he took it as an invitation to engage. “I mean we got out in transition, we attacked them, we took D-lo out the game,” Brown said Wednesday after the Nuggets’ film session in the wake of their Game 1 victory.