Kawhi Leonard finishes with 26 points and James Harden scores 28 points as the Clippers defeat the Denver Nuggets 111-105 in Game 6 to tie the series 3-3.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — A year ago in Minnesota, the Nuggets squandered their chance to close out a playoff series with a convincing absence of urgency. They lost by 45. They tempted fate, and fate crushed them in Game 7 back home.

Game 7 between the Los Angeles Clippers and Denver Nuggets was highly anticipated, as both sides showed during the prior six contests that any game could go down to the wire, and despite the game being in Denver,