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Jamal Murray made the superstar leap during last year’s playoffs. He may not have a chance to repeat that.
The Nuggets star had to be helped off the court after refusing to get in a wheelchair in the final minute of the Nuggets’ 116-107 loss to the Warriors on Monday night.
Murray had missed the previous four games with right knee soreness, though this injury was to the other knee. Murray pounded the court in frustration while he lay on the ground after the non-contact injury.
“As of right now, obviously very down locker room,” Nuggets coach Mike Malone told reporters after the game.
“…No definitive answer right now. We will wait for the imaging and go from there. Some of the [assistant] coaches said when they watched the replay it looked like he hyperextended it. He just came back [from a right knee injury], he was gone for four days. His [right] knee had been bothering him… just an awful feeling. Keep Jamal in your thoughts and prayers, and hopefully we will get some good news.”
The Nuggets are 34-20 and the fourth seed in the Western Conference. Denver had been playing its best basketball of the season after the trade deadline acquisition of star forward Aaron Gordon from the Magic.
But it was Murray, 24, who was the driving force — along with this season’s MVP favorite Nikola Jokic – behind the team’s run to the Western Conference Finals in the NBA bubble a season ago.
“Y’all know what he means to us, he’s ‘the dude’ – Nikola and Jamal,” forward Michael Porter Jr. said. “They brought this team to new heights. You talk about their closing all the time. We need Jamal … but we are more worried about his well-being right now, how he is individually than the team. The team right now is an afterthought.”
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