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Nuggets rookie Bones Hyland details his welcome-to-the-NBA moment

LOS ANGELES — Bones Hyland still doesn’t know who hit him.

It was training camp at the University of California San Diego. Hyland was pressing full-court, playing his personal brand of high-octane basketball.

Then, bam! Hyland got cracked on a blind screen.

“I forget who it was, but it felt like my head popped off my shoulders,” Hyland said from shootaround Monday morning ahead of Denver’s preseason opener vs. the Clippers. “Bol was on my team, he didn’t call the screen. I said, ‘Dang, Bol! How you ain’t gonna call that out?’ That was my welcome-to-the-NBA moment.