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How Jamal Murray “figured out” the NBA playoffs the hard way

If you’re still harboring any doubts about what Jamal Murray could possibly have left in the tank after four overtimes, come closer. Larry Blunt wants to tell you a story.

Murray’s 16. He turns up at the Saint James tourney in Washington, D.C. with a broken finger. En route to the first game, Murray somehow manages to get that same broken finger slammed into a car door.

“He refused to not play,” says Blunt, who coached the Nuggets’ backcourt star in his high school salad days at Orangeville (Ontario) Prep. “Refused. It would’ve taken an act of God and then Congress to prevent him from playing.