When Kyrie Irving flung the game ball 20 rows deep into the Pepsi Center stands on Monday night, the source of his frustration, he said, was Jamal Murray, the Nuggets third-year guard who committed the cardinal sin of firing up a three in the closing seconds of a long-decided contest in a failed attempt to collect his first 50-point game.
Grumbled Irving, “The ball deserves to go in the crowd after a bulls**t move like that.”
Feel however you want about Murray’s move—it says here that griping about a player scoring within the span of a 48-minute game is in the family of feeling shown up by a home run hitters back flip; if you don’t like it, stop them from doing it—but the overeager point guard isn’t Boston’s biggest problem these days.