NBA World Reacts to Nuggets' Shocking Game 7 Blowout Over Clippers

Denver trounced Los Angeles to move onto the second round.

The Nuggets rode a huge third quarter to move onto the second round / Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images

The Denver Nuggets and Los Angeles Clippers engaged in perhaps the most competitive first-round series of the 2025 NBA playoffs. Then Game 7 arrived, and the Nuggets absolutely trounced the Clippers.

In a stunning blowout victory, Denver destroyed Los Angeles, 120-101, to move onto the second round of the postseason. The Nuggets were up by 11 at halftime and came out of the locker room ready to fight; the Clippers were not. The Nuggets outscored the Clippers 35-19 in the third quarter to take a 27-point lead that they would not relinquish. It was only in the last five minutes of the fourth quarter Los Angeles was able to close the gap even a little bit, with the bench mob showing energy the starters failed to bring to the table.

It was very unexpected after such a close series and the NBA world reacted appropriately, marveling at Denver's dominant win.

a blowout in what’s supposed to be a hyped up game 7 is always so anticlimactic lol

— SJ (@SJBasketball8) May 4, 2025

Waited all day for a blowout pic.twitter.com/fYarBRN3h6

— ☃️ (@ChrisKnowsBall2) May 4, 2025

Home team blowout in game 7 pic.twitter.com/ZjhpUUMqV2

— terry (@terryworst) May 4, 2025

Steve Ballmer paying 120 Clippers fans to watch their team lose by 30 in a Game 7 pic.twitter.com/oscMuRjLNo

— ₁₅𝕁𝕠𝕜𝕖𝕀𝕟𝔸𝔹𝕠𝕩 (@jokerwrld) May 4, 2025

New stadium. Richest owner. Healthy Kawhi. Doesn't matter.

Cancun waiting for the Clippers every year: pic.twitter.com/3bwifcfsF9

— StatMuse (@statmuse) May 4, 2025

The Clippers somehow find a way to make people believe in them every year after proving themselves untrustworthy over and over again.

— Jay King (@ByJayKing) May 4, 2025

PS5 beeps ringing out across the living rooms of Clippers fans everywhere

— Kyle Neubeck (@KyleNeubeck) May 4, 2025

That time of the year when the Clippers go home early and everyone reminisces on why Kawhi should’ve never left Toronto. pic.twitter.com/LEaEXOFBzZ

— Lyés (@LyesBouzidi10) May 4, 2025

The Clippers Wall pic.twitter.com/mcKT4WAZdG

— Daman Rangoola (@damanr) May 4, 2025

This has been gross from the Clippers for like an hour.

— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) May 4, 2025

We might’ve just witnessed the best Nuggets quarter of all time, what a pleasure. pic.twitter.com/9tW8APfmCv

— Yeah (@YeahWrld) May 4, 2025

HEY CLIPPERS 👋🏻 pic.twitter.com/uxH9ie7AWR

— DNVR Nuggets (@DNVR_Nuggets) May 4, 2025

These were the "things went right for once" Clippers.

Healthy Kawhi. Harden still an All-Star. Zubac finally gets proper credit. Nailed the offseason moves on the margins.

And they still lost to the "fired our coach and GM three weeks ago" Nuggets. Idk where they go from there.

— Sam Quinn (@SamQuinnCBS) May 4, 2025

Clippers lost in 7 to the Nuggets in 2020, waited 5 years to get Kawhi in a full playoff series again, and then lost to the Nuggets in 7

— Playoff RB (@RyB_311) May 4, 2025

this was a massive whooping the Nuggets put on the Clippers. I did not think Denver would rebound as well as they have this series. They were relentless on the boards all series long. OKC will present some different problems but that is tomorrow's issue. Today enjoy the win.

— Mo Dakhil (@MoDakhil_NBA) May 4, 2025

A tough end to the season for the Clippers.

The Nuggets will take on the No. 1 Oklahoma City Thunder in the second round of the Western Conference playoffs starting on Monday.

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