The Nuggets (37-26) play their next three games at home, and all are winnable. The opponents are Memphis on Wednesday, Toronto on Friday and Seattle on Sunday. The talk among the Nuggets is that they need to win them all before they go east for a five-game trip.

"We've got 19 playoff games left," Nuggets coach George Karl said.

SPURS 107, NUGGETS 103: Allen Iverson's finger hurt. So did Marcus Camby's hip.

But the loss hurt the most.

The Nuggets led San Antonio by seven points in the third quarter. They were up by three midway through the fourth.

In the end, though, it added up to a loss and being knocked down another notch in the playoff race.

"It's not hard to be mad," said Iverson, the battered Nuggets guard. "I'm extremely mad, just being a competitor."

Iverson learned earlier in the day he had suffered a small, non-displaced fracture at the end of his ring finger. Iverson, hurt on Friday, isn't expected to miss time, but it remains to be seen how the injury might affect his play.

Iverson shot 9-of-22 for a game-most 28 points. But he was just 5-of-15 in the second half.

"Just sore," Iverson said. "Just throbbing. Just something I expected. I was hoping to get hit on it to see how I'd respond. But I never got hit on it. I just had play with the pain of it being broken."

Also in pain was Camby, the Nuggets center who bruised his right hip diving for a loose ball in the first half. Camby said he doesn't expect to miss time and hardly could complain when he saw the Nuggets had "a guy out there playing with a broken finger."

The Spurs got 23 points and 18 rebounds from forward Tim Duncan. Guard Manu Ginobili handed out a career-high 14 assists.