(Football news) The Los Angeles continued their dismal start to the season with a fourth loss in a row after losing to the Denver Nuggets 110-99. For the Nuggets, Nikola Jokic had 31 points and 13 rebounds while Jamal Murray hit a big 3-pointer and finished with 13 points. For the Lakers, Anthony Davis, dealing with lower back tightness, had 22 points and 14 rebounds for Los Angeles. LeBron James had 19 points to extend his double-digit streak to 1,100 games as  Lonnie Walker IV had 15 points. The Lakers are shooting 22.3 %from 3-point range through their first four games, which is the single worst four-game shooting percentage any single team has endured in a single season in NBA history. The Nuggets who are ranked 25th in the NBA in 3-point percentage and still made them 32.7% threes last game which was 10 percentage points higher than the Lakers.

''It's a new system. It's a new group of guys together,'' James explained. ''We're still trying to get familiar with one another.''

''We're four games and it sucks to lose, but we have 78 games left,'' new Lakers coach Darvin Ham said. ''It's plenty of time for us to right the ship. And it starts now.''

''LeBron is the best player on the planet,'' Jokic said. ''I like to compete with the best.''

''I just walked over to him in the huddle, gave him a big hug and said, `Hey, man, big picture. I believe in you. I love you. I know who you are, and I know where you're going to be at some point,''' Malone said.

''Not really about any other team right now, scouts or schemes – just going out there and doing it for 48 minutes to get a win,'' Davis said. ''Whatever we've got to do. That's the first step. We can build on that.''

The Milwaukee Bucks got a 110-99 win over the Brooklyn Nets. For the Bucks, Antetokounmpo had 43 points, 14 rebounds and five assists. He scored 34 points in the second half as Bobby Portis had 20 points and 11 rebounds while Jrue Holiday added 15 points. For the Nets, Kevin Durant scored 33 points as Kyrie Irving added 27 and Royce O'Neale had 12 points. With this result the Bucks made it 3 wins in a row as the Nets slipped to their fourth defeat of the season, registering only a single win. 

''I was just standing up for our guys,'' said Nash, who was ejected twice during his 18-season playing career. ''I thought Patty took a forearm in the throat from Giannis right in front of the ref. I didn't feel that was fair. I don't think I was overly demonstrative. I was upset I got the technical.''

''I've been working a lot over these few years and this summer and just so anxious to prove to myself that I can do what I've been working on, and sometimes I think I play not (to) my strengths as much,'' Antetokounmpo said. ''I kind of scratched that, and in the second half, I was just, `OK, I'm going to be myself and be OK with it' and just tried to drive as much as I can and find my teammates and get in the paint.''

''That's vintage Giannis,'' Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said. ''That's probably about the best – he's had a lot of great performances – tonight that second half, he did everything. He was phenomenal.''

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