Paul Millsap: “A top-5 layup of all time, if you ask me.”
Harris: “I was just hoping I made it, so Coach didn’t get mad at me.”
The Nuggets’ wing guard instead spent most Denver’s Game 1 win in the Western Conference semifinals late Monday night driving Portland fans straight up a stinking wall. And on two viral plays in particular:
• With 1:23 left in the third period and Denver clinging to an 87-80 cushion, Nikola Jokic stopped at the free-throw line and found Harris cutting left to right across the baseline, hitting him with a bounce pass in stride.