WASHINGTON — Early in Monday’s double-overtime heartbreaker at Miami, Nuggets’ forward Paul Millsap pump-faked to get defender James Johnson in the air.
And then the four-time all-star froze.
“I didn’t know how to finish,” Millsap said. “I was so hesitant to finish with my left hand that (Johnson) ended up catching up and blocking my shot. Simple things like that have been tough for me to adjust to.”
Millsap has talked openly about the challenges of sustaining and recovering from the first serious injury of his 12-year NBA career, a torn left wrist ligament that kept him out from mid-November to late February.