NBA players are losing their minds with Jamal Murray hitting an incredible game-winner as the Denver Nuggets beat the Los Angeles Lakers to take a 2-0 series lead on Monday.
The game-clinching shot capped a 20-point comeback for the Nuggets and came after Murray struggled for much of the night, shooting just 8-23 from the field before making the winner.
Here’s how NBA players around the league are reacting to the dramatic scenes in Denver tonight:
JAMAL MF MURRAY! TAKE YOUR RESPECT BROTHER!!🔒🔒🔒
— Peyton Watson (@peytonwatson_) April 23, 2024
That was a history!!!🔥🔥🔥
— Alperen (@alperennsengun) April 23, 2024
The test results are in. The Denver Nuggets YOU ARE THE FATHER pic.twitter.com/J5NLYEVa62
— Kendrick Perkins (@KendrickPerkins) April 23, 2024
But u tried super hard Lakers and deserve an A for effort 👍👍
— George Karl (@CoachKarl22) April 23, 2024
Playoff basketball 🔥💯🤝🏾
Good night. #NBAPlayoffs
— Kevin Garnett (@KevinGarnett5KG) April 23, 2024
Omg Denver Nuggets tune in tomorrow @undisputed gonna be a movie
— Paul Pierce (@paulpierce34) April 23, 2024
That’s a foul we all saw it on national television.
— D’Angelo Russell (@Dloading) April 23, 2024
MORE REACTIONS
What a night of basketball! I’m waiving the 5-year waiting period and sending tonight to the Round 1 Hall of Fame.
— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) April 23, 2024
not now dwight
— Lakers Lead (@LakersLead) April 23, 2024
Lakers, just stop turning the 🏀 over. You’ll be fine. Make Nuggets beat you, but don’t help them.
— shannon sharpe (@ShannonSharpe) April 23, 2024
PLEASE DON’T TELL ME LEBRON JAMES HAD A WIDE-OPEN UNGUARDED THREE TO WIN IT … AND MISSED IT … AND JAMAL MURRAY HAD A FALLAWAY CONTESTED BY ANTHONY DAVIS AT THE BUZZER … AND MADE IT!
— Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) April 23, 2024
THE LAKERS THREW EVERYTHING THEY HAD AT THE NUGGETS AND JAMAL MURRAY SAID HAVE FUN ON THE PLANE RIDE HOME BOYS
— Shea Serrano (@SheaSerrano) April 23, 2024
anthony davis is a 4x all-nba defensive team selection and a 3x league leader in blocks and jamal murray looked at him guarding him one on one with the game on the line and was like “you are so fucking dead bro” 😭😭😭😭😭 what an absolute menacepic.twitter.com/A7msZ8YbRX
— Shea Serrano (@SheaSerrano) April 23, 2024
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— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) April 23, 2024
Scott Foster screwing over the Lakers pic.twitter.com/VLKogEbpt0
— LakeShowYo (@LakeShowYo) April 23, 2024
LeBron still moving like Neo just to be continuously yanked from the matrix by the NBA’s Agent Smiths. Brutal.
— Joel Lorenzi (@jxlorenzi) April 23, 2024
Here’s what some of the Lakers players and coaches had to say after the game:
LEBRON JAMES
“I don’t understand what’s going on in the replay center, to be honest,” he said. “… DLo clearly gets hit in the face on a drive. What the f— do we have a replay center for if it’s going to go [like that]. It doesn’t make sense to me. It bothers me. … And then I just saw what happened with the Sixers-Knicks game too. Like, what are we doing? … It’s f—ing stupid.”
DARVIN HAM
“Some tough calls,” he said. “Some tough non-calls. But you can’t use any of that as an excuse. You gotta go out there and be ready to make plays whether the whistle gets blown or not. It’s getting real tricky — you go through the season, games being officiated one way, and then you get to the playoffs, and I guess it’s left up to the interpretation of the three individual guys that’s doing the job out there.”
