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Avs Shutout Stars, Nuggets Beat Spurs in OT

April 8, 2026·1 hr 16 min·5 clips

Nikola Jokic finishes with 40 points, 8 rebounds, 13 assists, and zero turnovers, including a Sambor-shuffle fade-away over Wembanyama with under a minute left.

Between the Pipes stays with a Saturday where two games are happening at once. The hosts keep moving between Nuggets-Spurs and Avs-Stars, with the Nuggets getting the first focus because that game is going down to the wire while the Avs hold a 1-0 lead in Dallas. Mark Springer is coming in to react, and Alex Ryanemi is lined up after his network postgame shift. The setup is loose, but that looseness is the point. Victor Wimbenyama's free throws and Cam Johnson's and-one try sit in the same live frame as the clock runs down. The conversation keeps circling back to Jokic, because that is where the basketball argument feels most serious. It also opens up the question of what a Nuggets signature win looks like if this one holds up. From there the talk shifts into seeding, bracket math, and the idea that whoever gets the Lakers in round one may be happy about it. Luca Don Chich's availability is treated as a huge variable, not a footnote. The headset issue becomes part of the show when Springer cannot hear the host at first. That little tech scramble turns into a joke and then into a clean reaction to the double-win mood. Springer calls the Nuggets win impressive because of the defense and the ball movement. He also treats the Avalanche result as the kind of thing the best team in the league is supposed to do. Dallas gets framed as a team that needed more scoring, and the injuries they are dealing with are part of that picture. Goaltending, the hosts say, was never going to fix that by itself. A stray Rockies mention lands as a quick bit of local affection. The point is that the weekend is packed enough to make the mashup feel natural. The crew notes that there will not be another regular-season overlap like this one. If the postseason gives them another, they plan to bring the same double-feature setup back. The whole episode ends like a live room still buzzing from the final score.

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Live Colorado sports chatter with real game pressure underneath it.

Between the Pipes works as a live Saturday sports room, with the Nuggets-Spurs finish and the Avs-Stars watchalong running side by side. The hosts stay tied to the scoreboard, but they also widen out to the seeding race and the Lakers talk, so the conversation feels immediate…

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Two games, one room, and a Saturday that keeps flipping live.

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