Jamal Murray had the best reaction to hearing Donovan Mitchell finished with 57 points
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I told you these NBA playoffs are going to be a lot of fun and then the Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets went out there in the first game today and showed us that yeah, this is going to be sooooooo fun.
The Nuggets missed a buzzer-beater at the end of the fourth before going to overtime where they ran away from the Jazz with a 135-125 win in Game 1.
But the story of this one was the absolute show that Utah’s Donovan Mitchell and Denver’s Jamal Murray put on, especially down the stretch and then in overtime.
Mitchell finished with 57 points (after scoring just two points in the first quarter) and Murray had 36, including 20 in the fourth quarter and overtime combined.
Murray had a great reaction to hearing that Mitchell had 57 points in the game:
These two guards were trading buckets down the stretch that had NBA fans in awe on a Monday afternoon in August:
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