Nuggets win 10 consecutive games for first time in Nikola Jokic's career

Bennett Durando, The Denver Post on Apr 8, 2026

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DENVER — For all the incongruity and awkwardness of this Denver Nuggets season, it almost doesn’t feel right for it to be punctuated by a milestone win streak.

There were too many injuries, too many different lineups, too many costly freak plays in the clutch. It has been, in large part, a year of repressed collective talent.

Yet here were the Nuggets, pulling away from the Memphis Grizzlies after halftime for a 136-119 win, their tenth consecutive for the first time in Nikola Jokic’s illustrious 11-year NBA career. He has won three MVP trophies. He has shepherded Denver to a championship. But never to a win streak this prolonged. Nine was always the limit. Until now, with two games to go in the 2025-26 regular season.

“I had no idea that was the case, and I’ve been here for (almost) all those years,” coach David Adelman said. “I don’t know (why we haven’t). I’ve been around aggressive losing streaks before in Minnesota, and they just last forever and ever. So this has been unique. This whole season has been unique, man. I feel like we played really well at the start, and then we survived for three months, and now we’re playing really well again. … Cool way to close it out with three to go. Hopefully momentum-building. It feels like it is, with the vibe of the group.”

The Nuggets (52-28) started their surge from a sixth-place vantage point in the Western Conference standings. They’ve spent three weeks riding the wave all the way to third, which they suddenly control by a game and a half over the ailing Los Angeles Lakers.

Jokic amassed 14 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists by the end of the third quarter. He didn’t touch the court in the fourth. It was his 34th triple-double of the season, tying a career record set last year, and the 198th of his regular-season career. With two games left, he has a chance to join Russell Westbrook as the only players in the NBA with 200. Westbrook reached the milestone at 36 years old as a Nugget. Whether Jokic does it this season or next, he’ll be 31 in all likelihood.

He’s also within two triple-doubles of Westbrook for the most in league history including playoff games (221 to 219).

The Nuggets offered close to no defensive resistance in the first half against a severely depleted Grizzlies team that’s counting down the days to the offseason. But Denver’s offense has been so unstoppable this season that its defense could afford to be lackluster, to a point. Memphis led 72-68 at the break, but the Nuggets comfortably opened up a 14-point advantage by the end of the third quarter.

They were led by 26 points from Jamal Murray, who stayed hot from 3-point range with a 5 for 10 night. Jonas Valanciunas played his 1,000th career game and helped ensure Jokic wouldn’t have to return late in the game with an emphatic fourth-quarter stint.

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