Falling into a 12-0 hole less than three minutes in brought back unpleasant memories for the Atlanta Hawks.

Trae Young rewrote the ending with another big game.

The second-year point guard scored 15 of his season-high 42 points in the fourth quarter and added 11 assists to lead Atlanta over the Denver Nuggets 125-121 on Tuesday night.

Young finished seven points shy of his career high set March 1 against Chicago last season. He was 13 of 21 from the field and finished 8 for 13 on 3-pointers to flip the script on the Hawks’ last visit to Denver.

The Nuggets scored the first 13 points on their way to a 45-point rout of Atlanta last November, but this time the Hawks pushed back.

„We didn’t want the same thing to happen again,“ Young said. „We wanted to get back rolling.“

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