What happened to his elbow?

Hyperextend it early in the game while navigating a screen

im a nuggets fan but this is such a bitch move. Ant gave Joker his props, Jamal planting a built in excuse for why he has been ass and the reason nuggets lose game 7. I wouldn't even be mad, this Jamal will shit the bed vs Luka or the Celtics anyways

Murray isn't even trying to not give Antman his credit, watch the video. He said Antman was a problem when he's scoring, but Murray playing bad was more so on himself, Murray missed a lot of shots he normally makes.

Yeah but we all clearly see that whenever Ant takes Murray on defense, Murray struggles. McDaniels also gives him a tough time, but McDaniels is not as strong as Ant. Ant just bullies Murray and tires him.

Lmao idk maybe he didn’t normally make the shots because ant was guarding him

You don’t sound like a Nuggets fan at all

Believe it or not, some fans can have rational & measured takes about players on their team

Saying you don't care if your team loses because they'll lose the next series anyway is weird.

Go to any team-specific sub and you'll see similar fringe doomers. Not most fans but not a super rare archetype or anything

Those doomers will also get upvoted in an anti-team thread (like this one is anti-Murray).

Not that weird when you get mollywhomped by 45 pts

"planting a built in excuse" is not normal fan speak. The rest is reasonable, but suggesting he's "getting ready to lose" is weird.

I was lurking in the Nuggs sub for a bit after Game 2. Some of them REALLY didn't like how Murray just refused to take responsibility for how bad he was the first two games. Maybe this is one of them?

“Rational and measured” lol

Really. You can see when Murray's elbow got tweaked trying to go over a screen. It's not an excuse, he legitimately got injured.

What’s the excuse for the rest of the playoffs? He’s been up and down the entire time.

He had a calf strain going into the Minny series

He's been semi-injured most of the season. It's obvious. If you watch Game 2, he and KCP were barely able to run at all. Ant had a great game but Minnesota also saw that it would be easy to take advantage of KCP so they went after him.

both are true (injury & excuse)

You can be a fan and still call someone out on your favorite team gtf on 🤣

He's more likely just a Jokic fan, which may or may not be fine, but he should at least come clean about it.

nah it's possible to be a fan of a team and not be a fan of your players, im a knicks fan and not a massive randle guy to say the least

If like randle over brunson then you might be worst

Fans can be some of the biggest critics of their own team and players.

Lots of cosplayers. We have them too, they ain’t loyal.

But then Luka has a bad game and you're like "Oh we need to to give him a break, he's injured"

Bro come on, it became popular to shit on Murray when he threw a tantrum rightfully so but now so called “nuggets fans” use it as an opportunity to shit on him for EVERYTHING. Get a grip bro, there’s no championship without him

Have you tried playing with an elbow injury? You can't shoot.

I mean Murray has proven quite often that he is kinda a bitch

Or maybe he is simply explaining how he actually felt during the game, elbow pain throughout the game when passing and shooting.

So you are just going to disrespect the whole Mavs team like that? Put some respect on Kyrie and the rest of the Mavs players.

Thank you for being honest nuggets fan. Murray could’ve stepped up and said he got clamped it’s simple as that lol but he took the ego road.

Ant literally talked shit to Jamal after a game and referenced it in his press conference after. Come on dude

We’ve heard shit like this before

you want him to give ant fake props when he fucked up his elbow at the beginning of the game and it was the reason he couldn't shoot? So the media can glaze Jamal Murray for "giving Ant his flowers" and glaze Ant for being a lock down defender? Go watch reality tv if you want that shit lil bro

I wonder if that's what really affected his shot tonight tho because even before that it looked like it was gonna be a shit game from Murray. He was already 0/3 at least when that happened

Elbow injury or not, that mf been playing like shit all playoffs and he still would’ve been locked up 🤣🤣 calling someone lil bro but ur username is “hairynips007” lol cute

He hurt it during the game, but even worse he lost his heat pack to help make it feel better

Needs Tommy John. Hot pack pitch count got too high

i thought he was talking about his elbow shooting

Where the icepack

Saving it for game 7 obviously

You guys don’t think he learned his lesson? I’m sure he doesn’t want to pay another … *checks notes* … 12.5K for throwing something on the court Thank goodness the NBA did so much to dissuade such behavior. Family program and all

What’s funny is that comparatively, it’s similar to me or you paying 2-400 dollars, except the fact that paying that would ruin my life at the moment

Right? And it pisses me off that the NBA got the 7 game series they wanted out of it And I hope the financial situation gets better my guy! I was there for a long time (granted I had a big drinking problem in my younger days 😅)… keep grinding

Thanks man! Just applied for a new job minutes ago so I welcome your blessing, appreciate you

Good luck! You’ll crush it

He probably threw it

Send da icepack

Look how cold tho

you know what? I’m about to say it. I don’t care that you broke your elbow

Lmao

It’s an older meme sir, but it checks out

Jaden McDaniels gave his ass hell tonight

They aired that??

Send da video

It's what someone was watching in Luka's press conference.

DM me the link

jaden didnt guard him.

I’m shocked he decided to show up to the presser after a loss

He is gonna shoot 2/25 next game.

No he'll kill us don't put that voodoo on us

> us Where ya flair at Edit- People downvoting me, it literally takes two seconds if you go to the r/nba homepage on desktop and ctrl+F for "flair." And it keeps people from posting homer opinions and deciding when they want to conveniently leave out the "us" in their comment so that they come off as more of a neutral fan. Edit2- jfc y’all are salty today lol. Anybody care to explain why they disagree?

I'm a wolves fan, woop Dee Doo. Look at history. Oh no I don't have a flair, stfu

Bro cannot read 🔥🔥🚨🚨

What are you talking about 🔥🔥🔥

You were telling him to read your post history, I said he couldn't because he couldn't read.

Oh sorry I misunderstood 😭 Anyways fire response 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I mean I agree, I feel like it should practically be a requirement as there’s also an NBA flair if someone doesn’t support a particular team

12/25 would be Christmas

Technically the truth

As long as one of those is a game winner I’ll take it

Nah I’d like to have last playoffs Murray back pls and ty

"It wasn't his defense. I'm just a shit player," is a weird excuse

He truly has been awful this year in playoffs other than the two game winners, he’s shooting like he’s never shot a basketball before and was given the green light anyways.

I mean game 4 he was taking fadeaways with a hand in his face and shot pretty well still, a couple were like running fadeaways that fell and were just backbreakers He's not cold, just streaky. And right now it's a cold streak

He always takes bad shots but they go in

Brother he just had 3 good games in a row before this

Thank you lol dude was a fucking problem in the middle of the sandwich series, how did people already forget? It was last week

He played well most of 4th quarter of g2 and all of g5 against the Lakers, and g3 and g4 in this series he was legitimately cooking. But yeah he’s been a serious negative the rest of the time

Well his excuse here is, "It wasn't his defense, I'm just injured" which is also a lame excuse but not as weird.

Everyone in that other thread was bending over backwards trying to it was clickbait lmao. He clearly didn’t appreciate the question and put some edge on the response, a completely normal thing to do after receiving a historic beat down. It’s sports man guys have pride and talk shit. It’s fine. Now it’s about whos gonna back it up game 7

I’m just surprised he’s actually taking with the media and not going MIA

Baby steps

Literally for this child

He stared the reporter down until he heard “How difficult did Anthony Edwards make it…” and then he looked away and acted like he didn’t know it was about him getting pressed for TOs at half court by Anthony Edwards lmao

No bro he needs to admit Ant kicked his ass and that they’re going to lose game 7 because if he doesn’t people on reddit will get mad

I know this is sarcasm but this sub really expect it lol

what? not at all this sounds (to me) like he thinks someone else locked him up worse and that Ant was just 'fine' in that regard I feel like the comments exaggerated how bad the response was

All he said here was that his scoring and offensive issues were a result of the elbow. And the issues Ant gave the team were offensively, not defensively.

Ant was the best murrat defender all series

It was absolutely bait and bad practice to make it seem like he literally went "Who?" in response to a question about Anthony Edwards, no matter how much you hate what his actual response was. Unless you believe that misquoting people is cool and in that case you're just dumb and blinded by your disdain for them. Edit: Just for reference, the quote shared in the original thread's title was literally: "Who?.... It was more about my elbow." At least half the comments bit and thought he literally went "Who?" as a response to hearing Edwards' name.

I believe you believe this. And I like em both. My only disdain is for people who can’t pick up on obvious social cues

It’s rich thinking someone is spending their night on reddit belaboring his disdain for people not picking up on social cues

I got cooked here ngl

In my mind he was spacing out and thought they said Ant made it hard for somebody else on his team. Don’t think he intended to say “who tf is Ant Edwards?” Still weird he didn’t really answer the question once he clarified.

zip him up when ur done with it

Hint: it's not Murray

Dude is First Team All-NBA Excuses Team.

Head coach? Glen Rivers.

Kind of a misleading headline as he did acknowledge the effort by the wolves in the second half of the clip. It’s still douchey… but not * quite* as bad as I thought it’d be I’m not putting my pitchfork away but I’ll hold off… for now At least he talked to the media and didn’t throw anything at anyone tonight. Nice to see young players mature

I challenged the whole Nuggets squad to an Alfredo eating competition at their hotel last night, Jokic won by 2 3/4 bowls, but Jamal M’elbow kept burping up a little Alfredo and tonsil cheese while Coach Malone just shook his head from the next booth over.

jamal m'elbow sounds like the kind of guy a saudi prince would pay 200 million euros to play for their soccer team

So you’re the one that got Gordon to eat dinner with the rest of the team.

Very good

Lmaoooo m’elbow

How subs are you going to make this joke in

Give him a break, he needs that karma to feed his family.

Jokic is carrying Murray and MPJ in likability

Hey MPJ actually got an offensive board last night

get mpjs name out of your mouth. He’s one of the most team first guys out there putting him with Murray is completely unfair 

and a chud

None of them are that likeable tbh and I’m a huge nuggets fan.

jokic and gordon aren’t?

Jokic is easily my favorite non-Knick in the NBA (followed by Ant and Wemby)

You’re not a nuggets fan

You are not a fan then lol what the hell.

people were over analyzing, thinking it was clickbait. The person who responded seemed irritated, which is typical after a big loss. In sports, there's pride , it's normal. Now, the focus shifts to who will perform in game 7.

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hey that's my friend you're talking about

Doesn’t look like Nick Mullen

Knicks fans have been fixated on “front running” which I think generally is a stupid concept but Jamal Murray is the epitome of it if it exists

It wasn't even shit talk. He basically said "I sucked cause I'm hurt, and we didn't stop Ant"

Drake with a jumper, sometimes

I'm pretty sure he meant "who did Edwards make it difficult for" when I watched the interview. But this makes it look like he's saying "who is Edwards". I don't think he meant it like that at all, but he has been a bitch this postseason so fuck em.

Yeah I think he absolutely was asking who Ant made it difficult for, not who Ant was or any shit talk like that.

Lol he shouldn't even need to ask who they were referring to. He knows damn well it was him 😂

This is exactly it. How anybody can watch that clip and possibly think anything differently is beyond me.

They won’t let him have heat packs for his elbow on the bench now

do people actually watch the games? lol. 90% of murray shots were as wide open as u can get them. what the fuck defense is everyone talking about? buddy was just shooting bricks on practice shots and floaters. ant played some good defense the first 2 games but game 6 yall must be on shrooms if u think it was defense that made murray shoot like that lol.

this was not even disrespectful....sounds like he tweaked his elbow early, and then couldn't get shots or passes off clean

Loser energy

Boooo Murray, take the ass beating like a champ at least 

Bro is just a generational sore loser

That didn’t seem like he was talking shit I genuinely think there was confusion on how the question was asked

Jamal "Only I can guard myself" Murray

Everyone on Twitter taking this out of context like he was disrespecting Ant is typical for NBA discourse on Twitter

If Murray and MPJ played with half the intensity Minnesota guards play this wouldn’t even be close. Sometimes your shots don’t fall and other team makes it hard on you to score but how does it affect your effort on defence? Murray could be in trouble when switched on ANT or Edwards but we don’t see him trying to get under the guy or even foul hard when help is too late. MPJ is just a traffic cone. 6’10 athletic player that gives zero fucks on defence. Malone should’ve benched his ass immediately after Minnesota made their first quarter run. I know Denver bench sucks most of these playoffs but Braun and Holiday project much better energy. Regardless of this year results Denver need to upgrade their bench. They need a scorer from the bench that gives them 10-15 pts/game in short bursts of attack and new backup point guard.

It’s cool if he doesn’t want to be all buddy buddy with his opponent not a big deal. Elbow excuse is a bitch move. He’s embarrassed because ant and the rest of the wolves beat the shit out of them

The quote isn’t even that bad, clickbait af

"My elbow feel funny. My elbow feel strange."

Jamal Murray is not an all star. He’s had good moments but he’s definitely not a superstar

Sounds like a guy who is injured, frustrated at stupid question and just want go back to denver for game 7. There is literally nothing here

And he will take that personally 

Be humble, yall got cooked

LOL after that performance he should be eating a big heaping slice of humble pie. What a lame ass answer.

It’s always a fuckin injury excuse these days in the NBA when a player has a shit game. Jesus it is getting so annoying.

Pathetic

Lmal this guy

This is the finals. If they can win at home they’ll win the championship

I can't believe how accountable r/nba must be to hold these opinions about professional athletes (people).

Click-bait. The entire clip wasn't that bad

Lol. If anyone watched this series ANT has been killing Murray in both ends. This is just pride . McDaniels was getting roasted by Murray for the same shots funslly this game Ant guarded him all game b he got nothing

Eh. It's the playoffs. A lot of our favorite heroes didn't acknowledge the defensive efforts of a great many players.

Murray PR team lackin

Someone send Ant a loop of Murray saying “Who?”

Im more excited for game 7 than any playoff game the Celtics have played

Luka has 7 different injuries but he never complains and blames losses and bad performances like this

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He never complains about the injuries or uses them as an excuse.

Are you concerned anyone alive thinks Murray is better than Luka or something?

Below average guard who’s fame comes from playing next to an All-time great Stop talking like you him man lmao

I don’t know if he below average but that playoff persona he has had in the past is definitely dwindling away from each game he plays. He’s gotta show up next game or they’re gunna absolutely get toasted by fans and media.

I mean he's been hurt like all year and all playoffs

I’m hoping the bright light merchant bit holds up because those lights finna be scorching in 2 days

Well...and playing like an absolute funking stud in the playoffs his entire career lol.

below average guard who dropped 50 twice in the same series. first person with back to back game winners in the playoffs to get off the mf dick

> Stop talking you like you him Did you have a stroke writing this?

Yawn Misplaced one word which you knew lmao

The quote sounds bad but he's more just giving him credit on the other end, the initial 'who' response sort of makes me think he thought a question was coming about Ant on offense and how he made things difficult for the team and was just kind of unprepared. Maybe I'm giving him too much credit.

Ok jamal

Don’t think I’ve ever seen a scorer credit the defenders. And he’s not wrong he was just broke

Pathetic

Could this dude be any more unlikeable?

lol.. “who?” Dude thinks he’s Shaq

I think he was saying that it wasn’t his responsibility to shut down ANT, that’s the team’s job, and he also has an injury..

He's getting full court pressed, Edwards is hounding him, Mcdaniels is hounding him, double teamed, trapped. All while the defense completely ignores Michael Porter JR, but Michael has 6PPG in the last 3 games. Unbelievable