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#JAMAL MURRAY STATS SERIES#
Data Provided By Point Guard and Shooting Guard Thanks to a 40-point Game 7 against the LA Clippers, 23-year-old Canadian Jamal Murray helped the Nuggets become the first team in postseason history to overcome multiple 3-1 series deficits in the same year. ''So, when I come back we can all click and be better versions of ourselves.Are you a Stathead, too? (46-27, 3rd place in NBA Western Conference), Every Sports Reference Social Media Account, Site Last Updated: Tuesday, October 20, 4:30AM. He watched me play when he had to redshirt and now I'm the one who gets to watch him have a chance to blossom and make the mistakes and fix the mistakes and score 40 or 50 points. It's kind of like Mike and I switched roles now. ''I get a chance to work on my shot every single day. ''Yeah, especially just being in the basketball environment every single day,'' Murray said. Michael Porter Jr., who was in Murray's position a couple of years ago when he had back surgery and missed an entire season, said the process will only make Murray better. And after that, I'm the last one in the gym. Murray is usually the first player to arrive at Ball Arena and the last to leave. Murray said it's not the grueling physical nature of his rehab that's hardest but ''just not being on the court.'' I want to be naturally in my head where I can play without any pain, play without any second thought.'' I don't want to be babying it at all or overthinking at all. ''I want to come back when it feels like I can play with the same amount of force that I normally play with. I don't want to come back when I'm 85% no matter where the team's at,'' Murray said. But he's going to go more by feel and faith than any date. I'm looking forward to that aspect of it.''Īpril will mark a year since he got hurt and that seems like a decent guess as to when Murray will return. ''I'll kind of be like a player/coach out there. Certain flights or one-game road trips I might not make, but for the most part I'll be with the team and I'll be doing scouting reports for the team like pregame and stuff. ''Obviously, I still swell up when I fly or I'm not as loose the next day when I go to lift. ''I plan to make most of the trips,'' Murray said. Murray will be right there cheering them on. I think that has to be the same mindset,'' Malone said. It worked last year as they went 13-5 after Murray's injury, then beat Portland in the playoffs before losing to Phoenix. So, the Nuggets enter the season with the same mindset they adopted the day after Murray got hurt: they'll all share the load until their sparkplug returns. ''Not when we tell him, not a date on the calendar.'' ''He'll come back when he's ready,'' said Tim Connelly, the team's president of basketball operations. You'll see a lot of videos of me playing 1-on-1, me scoring at a high clip, but that doesn't mean it feels the way I want it to feel,'' Murray said. ''That's the biggest thing for me coming back, is having confidence in it. But even when I do certain things, I've got to remind myself that I can't do it to the speed or the level that I want to do it. ''Just five months ago, I couldn't lift my leg off the bed,'' said Murray. The Nuggets recently tweeted a video of Murray draining a corner 3, then slow-motion prancing down the baseline with a big smile and stepping deliberately so as not to stress his sleeved left knee. He drained 3-pointers during warmups before playoff games, then cheered, coached and cajoled teammates from the bench and sometimes even bolted past coach Michael Malone to give officials an earful. He's given fans some tantalizing tidbits of what the future may hold during his slow rehabilitation from his torn ACL.