Andrew Bogut leads Golden State Warriors to NBA series win Andrew Bogut leads the way with 14 points and 21 rebounds in Golden State's 92-88 win over Denver in the first round of the NBA playoffs. Warriors centre Andrew Bogut blocks a shot by the Denver Nuggets' Andre Iguodala in Golden State's 92-88 NBA playoff win. Bogut was dominant for Golden State in game six of the playoff series. IT will be Aussie, Aussie, Aussie when Andrew Bogut's Golden State Warriors take on Patty Mills and Aron Baynes' San Antonio Spurs in the NBA's Western Conference semi-final series on Monday. Bogut was at his dominant best today, leading the Warriors to a 92-88 win over the Denver Nuggets with 14 points, 21 rebounds, four blocks and three assists. The home win put the Warriors up 4-2 in the series, eliminating the Nuggets from the playoffs and sending the San Francisco Bay Area team to San Antonio for game one on Monday. "This is an emotional moment," said Bogut, who has never been to the second round of the playoffs. Nobody picked us to win this series so it's a big win for us. The Nuggets are a young, high-flying team with little playoff experience, while the Spurs are a clinical, but lethal franchise led by four-time NBA championship-winning head coach Gregg Popovich and veteran forward-centre Tim Duncan. The Spurs are the United Nations of the NBA, featuring Australian guard Mills, forward-centre Baynes, French trio Tony Parker, Boris Diaw and Nando De Colo, Argentina's Manu Ginobli and Brazil's Tiago Splitter. "Hopefully we can keep rolling," Bogut said. The Warriors almost blew it against the Nuggets today, seemingly cruising with a 80-62 lead with nine minutes left in the fourth quarter, but committed eight turnovers and with 32 seconds left the Nuggets were only behind 90-88. The Nuggets missed a number of equalisers and Warriors guard Jarrett Jack sealed the game in the final seconds with two free throws. It was Bogut who kept the Warriors in the game in the first half while the team's top shooters, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson were cold from the three point line, missing all six attempts between them. Bogut, however, earned all four of his blocks in the first two quarters and motivated his team with a number of monster rebounds and dunks. The Warriors took control in the third quarter, Curry draining two three-pointers in a 10-0 scoring run that gave Golden State a 50-44 lead. The hosts took a 73-62 lead into the fourth and scored the first seven points in the period to build an 80-62 margin with 9:11 to play. But 10 Golden State turnovers in the final quarter helped the Nuggets battle back. Andre Iguodala's three-pointer for Denver trimmed the deficit to 82-78 with 4:14 to play. Another Iguodala three-pointer pulled the Nuggets within three points with 1:02 remaining, and Kenneth Faried made it 90-88 when he made one of two from the free-throw line with 32.4 seconds left. A turnover off an inbounds pass -- Golden State's 10th turnover in the quarter -- gave Wilson Chandler a chance to score but his shot bounced off the rim and his attempt to tip it back in failed. Golden State's Jarrett Jack sank the clinching free throws for the final margin with 7.3 seconds left. "We did everything we could to let them back in the game," Curry said. That won't happen again. We escaped tonight. We'll learn from it. Draymond Green contributed 16 points and 10 rebounds for Golden State, including six key points after the Nuggets made things interesting in the fourth quarter. The Nuggets, who won 57 games in the regular season to earn the third seed in the Western Conference, lost all three games of the series in Oakland to bow out in the first round. Iguodala led the Nuggets with 24 points, nine rebounds and six assists. Ty Lawson added 17 points. Chandler scored 11 points but connected on just 5-of-17 from the floor. Golden State's All-Star forward David Lee, expected to miss all of the playoffs after tearing his right hip flexor in the opening game of the series, made a brief appearance in the first quarter. He energised the crowd and his teammates, but it wasn't clear if he would play against the Spurs. "It's been torture sitting over there having to watch, especially when we lost game five," Lee said. It's no fun, but I felt I could go out and energize the crowd. I thought I could help the team. The Spurs will be the short-priced favourites in the series, having dominated the Warriors over the years. The Warriors have lost 29 straight games on the Spurs home court, with the streak going all of the way back to 1997. In the other NBA playoff game today, the Brooklyn Nets tied their series with the Chicago Bulls with a 95-92 win, forcing a winner-takes-all game seven on Saturday at Brooklyn.