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Jamal Murray: Nuggets get “too unselfish” sometimes, but in wins like Utah, “It looks really good”

Parker Gabriel
The Denver Post
Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray (27) reacts to a call by an official, during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Utah Jazz, Monday, Dec. 30, 2024, in Salt Lake City.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Jamal Murray contorted his face into a demonstrative expression worthy of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.”

He was dribbling the ball past mid-court. The Nuggets were hunting fast-break points in Utah, and Murray needed to get a message across to Peyton Watson. The young forward was in the far corner, spaced next to Michael Porter Jr. on the right wing.

“I was trying to tell him to cut,” Murray told The Denver Post.



How to communicate this? With his mouth agape, as if in dismay; his eyes practically popping out of his head; his right eyebrow ever so slightly raised. Murray is a man of many memorable countenances. This was an instant Hall of Fame entry.

“I was trying to tell him to go,” he continued, “because Mike was beside him, so (Watson) thought maybe it was going to be a swing, swing (for a corner 3-point attempt). But he was wide open. So I was just trying to tell him to do what he did.”

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