The NBA world is still catching its collective breath after the incredible playoff doubleheader on Monday night. The evening was capped off by Jamal Murray's heroics in Denver as he buried a buzzer-beater over Anthony Davis to win game 2 101-99. There was no shortage of reactions last night in the moment, ranging from fun to insightful to hilarious.
First, of course we had the videos of the actual shot by Murray, captured from a few different angles.
Jamal Murray CALLED GAME pic.twitter.com/HitgkKKqYd
— Katy Winge (@katywinge) April 23, 2024
Jamal Murray. Game. pic.twitter.com/1XpXX3MUL4
— Dave McMenamin (@mcten) April 23, 2024
This is an astute observation by Jared. What other superstar is that willing to play second fiddle in crunch time for the good of his team? Jokic had an all-time playoff game and still was happy to spur on his teammate Murray to bring home the W. That's how dynasties are built.
Murray deserves most credit. but shouts to Jokic who, even while DOMINATING on every post up he wanted, whenever he wanted, kept forcing the ball back into Murray's hands the whole final 6+ mins. He needed Jamal back in rhythm. That belief is contagious, demanded him to get going
— Jared Wade (@Jared_Wade) April 23, 2024
Naturally it wouldn't be NBA Twitter without some good old jokes at the expense of the Lakers...
The Lakers led by 20 in the 3rd quarter. 😬😬 pic.twitter.com/KRgJ35IZlL
— theScore (@theScore) April 23, 2024
We even saw some Nuggets players racing to social media to chime in and praise their teammate. It's cool to see the players fanning out and appreicating Murray's heroics just like the rest of us. Peyton Watson and Christain Braun were clearly impressed.
JAMAL MF MURRAY! TAKE YOUR RESPECT BROTHER!!🔒🔒🔒
— Peyton Watson (@peytonwatson_) April 23, 2024
Jamal Murray
— Christian Braun (@Ballin25Braun) April 23, 2024
A staple of just about every Nuggets game, a ridiculous historical stat about Nikola Jokic that almost seems fake at first glance. I wonder how long the Gru thing will stick with the Joker. Just one more thing to endear fans to the big Serb.
Nikola Jokic is the only player with a 25/20/10 playoff game since the merger.
— StatMuse (@statmuse) April 23, 2024
He's done it four times. pic.twitter.com/nnmLMvv2um
Then we had a large segment of the population that simply wanted to appreciate the game, Jamal Murray, the playoffs, and basketball in general.
PUT THAT GAME IN A MUSEUM
— Hardwood Paroxysm (@HPbasketball) April 23, 2024
WHAT A GAME IN DENVER!!!! INCREDIBLE!
— Marc D'Amico (@Marc_DAmico) April 23, 2024
PLAYOFF MURRAY
— Chris Vernon (@ChrisVernonShow) April 23, 2024
THAT DID NOT JUST HAPPEN.
— Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) April 23, 2024
What a night of playoff basketball
— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) April 23, 2024
There is nothing better than basketball.
— Jay King (@ByJayKing) April 23, 2024
Basketball.
— Anchorage Man (@SethPartnow) April 23, 2024
And okay fine, one more Lakers jab for good measure. This time it's an Anthony Davis joke. Davis was incredible all night and played great defense on Murray on the final possession. But sometimes good offense beats good defense. Davis fell into the Nuggets bench while the team celebrated around him and the rest is meme history.
Murray had AD looking like a life alert commercial pic.twitter.com/dp90sd8qRb
— Jasmine (@JasmineLWatkins) April 23, 2024
AD really got sat down and had to watch DEN celebrate from their bench after losing a 20+ pt lead.pic.twitter.com/bPevRwMKGW
— 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥 𝗗𝗙𝗦 & 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗦 (@LineStarApp) April 23, 2024
Anthony Davis stuck over on the Nuggets bench after getting a game winner on his head top. pic.twitter.com/F3FtCdbtgs
— Carrington Harrison (@cdotharrison) April 23, 2024