PHOENIX – With a basketball game to be won, Nuggets guard Jamal Murray wrestled with his foolish pride. He lost, because a strong man’s worst enemy can be his own stubborn ego.
Obsessed by a desire to prove himself the equal of Phoenix superstar Devin Booker, Murray not only got soundly beaten in one of those classic battles of one-upmanship that make pro basketball such compelling theater, Denver . . .