Jamal Murray double-doubles in Denver’s Game 1 win
Jamal Murray accounted for 22 points on 9-of-24 shooting, adding 10 assists, six rebounds and four triples across 39 minutes in Saturday’s 114-103 win over the Lakers.
Advice: Murray appeared in only 59 games, but he averaged a career-high 21.2 points and 6.5 assists this season. He finished last season’s Western Conference Finals by averaging a ridiculous 35.0 points, 7.3 rebounds, 5.3 assists, 3.0 steals and 5.0 triples over the final three games of the series. Murray excelled as a scorer in the WCF, but he focused his attention on playmaking against the Lakers this season, delivering two games with double-digit assists in the regular season and kicking off the first-round series with another one. Murray and Nikola Jokic combined for 54 points, 18 rebounds and 17 assists, but Aaron Gordon (12 points, 11 rebounds, seven assists), Michael Porter Jr. (19 points, eight boards) and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (12 points, three steals, four triples) all did their part to deliver a victory to the Mile High City.
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