Jamal Murray was quietly building an iron-man streak in his first two seasons in the NBA. The Denver point guard played in every one of the 126 games on the Nuggets' schedule since being drafted in 2016.
He played his entire rookie season with a groin problem that required surgery in the offseason, and through several bumps and bruises. But concussion symptoms that arose on the flight to Los Angeles for Wednesday night's game against the Clippers forced him out of the lineup and ended a modest but impressive streak.
Murray had cleared the concussion protocol during Tuesday's win over Dallas, but symptoms arose later.