Jamal Mur­ray limped to the lock­er room and was ruled ques­tion­able to return with a sprained right ankle dur­ing the sec­ond quar­ter of the Nuggets’ game against the Mia­mi Heat on Thurs­day night at Ball Arena.

Mur­ray appeared to land awk­ward­ly on team­mate Aaron Gor­don under the bas­ket after dish­ing an assist to Niko­la Jokic. The Nuggets point guard ini­tial­ly got to his feet, but then sat back down on the base­line. Mur­ray walked off the floor under his own pow­er but with a heavy limp.

The Nuggets point guard has been deal­ing with shin splints, cat­e­go­rized as bilat­er­al tib­ia inflam­ma­tion, in recent weeks. He has missed 16 games due to var­i­ous injuries this sea­son, most notably a right ham­string strain in November.

In his first 43 games of 2023–24, Mur­ray aver­aged 20.9 points, 3.9 rebounds and 6.4 assists on 48% shoot­ing from the floor and a 42% clip from 3‑point range. Enter­ing Thursday’s game — the sec­ond of a back-to-back — Mur­ray was com­ing off an out­stand­ing 32-point per­for­mance on 13-of-15 shoot­ing Wednes­day against the Sacra­men­to Kings.

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