Don't mess with Jamal Murray.
Jamal Murray entered Monday night’s Game 5 with the Los Angeles Lakers with concerns about his health. The Denver Nuggets superstar left with an all-time performance in a win and the most emphatic statement possible on LeBron James: an absolutely vicious dunk on the legend in crunch time.
As the Nuggets worked to finally put the Lakers away and advance to the second round, Murray turned on the Jets. He scored 13 of the Nuggets’ 27 fourth-quarter points — including another game-winner and this absolutely monstrous jam on James. Even better, he mean-mugged James and stole his usual celebratory shoulder shrug celebration after the dunk.
If Murray was at all unhealthy or uncomfortable, you would’ve never known it after seeing this sequence from the electric point guard:
Hoo buddy. That is playoff basketball at its finest. As captured by Ryan Greene of DNVR, Murray even stared James down after his big-time dunk. Folks, he was feeling it:
Once again, when the Nuggets needed him most, Jamal “Playoff” Murray stepped up in the best way you could imagine. He partly did it by sending a message to the arguable GOAT in a clutch moment.
