Nuggets superstar Jamal Murray to Shaq, Barkley: “Start giving this team some (darn) respect”

The out­side noise was loud enough that it pierced the Orlan­do “bub­ble.”

Whether the Nuggets admit­ted or not – and some­times they did – they saw the nar­ra­tive of their sec­ond round series against the Clip­pers being carved. After the Game 1 pound­ing, the Nuggets would be lucky to avoid a sweep. Trail­ing 3–1 after Game 4, might as well fast-for­ward to the all‑L.A. con­fer­ence finals. Extend the series to six games? Not gonna happen.

After the Nuggets made NBA his­to­ry Tues­day night, stun­ning the Los Ange­les Clip­pers in Game 7 and becom­ing the first team in his­to­ry to advance after fac­ing two sep­a­rate 3–1 deficits, they made it clear how close they were listening.

“You got Shaq, you got Charles (Barkley), I think Zach Lowe his name, I don’t even know,” Nuggets point guard Jamal Mur­ray began, after hang­ing 40 points in the 104–89 win. “Stephen A. (Smith), all y’all bet­ter start giv­ing this team some (darn) respect. Because we put in the work. We got a resilient team. We shouldn’t have been down 3–1 but to come back from 3–1 against the Clip­pers is a big achieve­ment so it’s fun just to change that narrative.”

A day before Game 7, Nuggets coach Michael Mal­one cit­ed ESPN’s experts, and men­tioned how 19 of them pre­dict­ed the Clip­pers would win. Not one said the series would advance to a Game 7.

“Nobody wants us here,” Niko­la Jokic said in his postgame inter­view. “Nobody thinks we can do some­thing. We prove our­selves and proved every­body we can do some­thing. Next is Lak­ers anoth­er tough oppo­nent for us. We just have to be out there and hav­ing fun.”

Jokic, him­self the 41st pick in the 2014 draft, is the face of a team that’s fought for every­thing it’s earned, includ­ing its new­found respect.

“We don’t have a first pick,” he said. “We don’t have many kind of super­stars. Every­body is work­ing to get where they’re at. When we won the game I felt just relief. We did it.”

The Nuggets have a giant chip on their shoul­der, and they’ve used it to make NBA his­to­ry. No fans inside the bub­ble means play­ers have to find moti­va­tion else­where. And if it’s in the per­ceived slights of pun­dits and prog­nos­ti­ca­tors, they don’t need to apologize.

“It’s just fun to silence every­body,” Mur­ray said. “We love it. That’s what makes it so special.”

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