DENVER — Not this time.

Nikola Jokic got plenty of help from his teammates and the Nuggets’ scoring surge held up in a 120-101 blowout of the shellshocked Clippers in a Game 7 laugher on Saturday night.

The Nuggets led by as many as 35 and while the franchise’s biggest blowout in a win-or-go-home scenario won’t make up for last year when they blew a 20-point fourth-quarter lead over the Timberwolves at home in Game 7 of their Round 2 series, it certainly exorcised some of those demons.

“It feels good,” interim Nuggets coach David Adelman said, “but I also know we’re flying to O-K-C tomorrow.”

The fourth-seeded Nuggets advanced to take on the No. 1 seeded and well-rested Thunder, which swept the Grizzlies in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs and has had a week off heading into the second-round series that begins Monday night.

When Adelman reminded a friend recently that the reward for surviving this gritty series with the Clippers was a date with the team that went an NBA-best 68-14, his buddy retored that what actually awaited the winner was a 72-14 team.

“OK, that’s right,” Adelman replied. “Appreciate that, bro.”

The Nuggets and Thunder split their season series 2-2 and if the Nuggets can reproduce their effort from Saturday night, the next series could be a tight one, too.

Jokic had 16 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists in 33 minutes but for a change he was overshadowed by his teammates. Aaron Gordon led the Nuggets with 22 points, Christian Braun had 21, Jamal Murray and Russell Westbrook chipped in 16 each and Michael Porter Jr. scored 15.

“In playoffs we know that everybody needs to step up, offensively, defensively, whatever, energy-wise. And everybody who plays needs to contribute something,” Jokic said. “It was special today the guys did that.”

Braun also played terrific defense on James Harden, who was held to 7 points on 2-of-8 shooting.

“Everybody behind me allowed me to guard him. But I think maybe the biggest part was Russ,” Braun said. “He’s played against James, he’s played with James, so he knows his game. ... The coaches trusted me tonight. We didn’t want to switch. They kept me on him all night. So, credit goes to those guys and the coaches.”

Kawhi Leonard led the Clippers with 22 points and Ivica Zubac had his quietest game of the series with 10 points.

“I don’t think this team was 30 points better than us,” Leonard said. “We saw that throughout the first six games of this series, but you’ve got to give them credit.

“They came out, ran hard in transition, got easy points and they made shots.”

Courtesy of team owner Steve Ballmer, more than 100 Clippers fans were flown to Denver and assembled behind one of the baskets to provide extra noise. They were rowdy when the Clippers took a 26-21 lead after one quarter but were as bewildered as the team bench as the Nuggets ran away with it.