However, the Nuggets had Aaron Gordon saving the game — and perhaps their season. That theme about depth — the Clippers have it, the Nuggets do not — is going to be a main one the rest of this series.

Denver coughed up a 22-point fourth-quarter lead but still beat the Clippers thanks to Gordon’s dramatic dunk to tie the first-round series at two games apiece.

Ex-Phoenix Suns' C Deandre Ayton beat the Clippers with dunk at 0.7 seconds left in the 2021 playoffs. Aaron Gordon did something similar on April 26.