OKLAHOMA CITY – Some forty minutes after Jamal Murray set the Thunder’s second-half defense on fire, he was wandering the back halls of Oklahoma City’s arena when something finally stopped him.
Murray stumbled on the carpeting en route to the press room when he quipped to himself, “Lu Dort can’t get me, but the rug will.”
At ease after the Nuggets held off the Thunder, 122-110, Murray was happy to explain what had gotten into him amid his 16-point second-half outburst that salvaged what could’ve been another woeful defensive collapse. Denver’s defense was reeling before Murray intervened to stop the bleeding.