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Why Kentavious Caldwell-Pope was “exactly” what the Nuggets needed

It didn’t matter that Kentavious Caldwell-Pope was the smallest. What mattered was that he was the hungriest.

When Jamal Murray’s halfcourt heave caromed off the rim with 32 seconds left in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s overtime thriller against the Clippers, Caldwell-Pope secured it among a throng of Nikola Jokic, Mason Plumlee and Paul George. In snatching the rebound, Caldwell-Pope saved the po . . .