The smile said the cavalry was already here, trumpets firing from the top of the arc. A scribe had just asked Nuggets coach Michael Malone last Sunday to elucidate on second-year wing Peyton Watson, and, more specifically, Watson’s second 10-point fourth quarter in about 50 hours.
“I loved it,” Malone replied, whispering a can-you-friggin-believe-that chuckle into the microphone. “(The Blazers) came one time, no one had him. (Watson) pulled up from three and that was one of those, ‘No, no, no! Great shot!’ The kid’s got (stones), man.”
The kid is your Bruce Brown now, come hell or high water.