The Lakers also survived despite their third straight game without suspended starters Brandon Ingram and Rajon Rondo. "[One] of the all-time Laker greats".
"It feels great; it's a win, period", said James, who got to rest in the fourth quarter with the Lakers up by as much as 27.
Through four games, McGee is averaging 16.2 points, 7 rebounds and 3.2 blocks in 24 minutes, and he made it clear afterward that he can play more and is not restricted by having asthma. "We were able to get them out of it in the later stages of the first quarter, and then took it into the second quarter and into the half, all the way to the end of the game".
"I just felt like my clutch badge came on", laughed Stephenson, who had 12 points and four assists.
Ingram will miss one more game for his role in the Lakers' brawl with the Houston Rockets last weekend, while Rondo can return Saturday in San Antonio.
Jamal Murray scored 22 points and Monte Morris had 20, but Denver couldn't answer the Lakers' rally led by James, who posted his third career triple-double in Staples Center for his third different team.
"A lot of people always try to discredit what he can do offensively but they never give him enough credit what he does defensively", James continued.
Bryant watched the Lakers erase an eight-point fourth-quarter deficit with a 15-2 blitz in just over three minutes.
The two-time MVP, 30, finished three points short of his career high of 54 and three three-pointers short of breaking his National Basketball Association record of 13 made in a single game as he did not enter for the fourth quarter. The Ukrainian guard scored his first National Basketball Association points one night earlier in Phoenix.
Los Angeles clobbered the Phoenix Suns 131-113. I wasn't going to say anything.