You ask what Jamal Murray ever did to Derrick White to deserve this, and Alex Welsh just laughs. He swears it’s just like that tag line on the old Terminator 2 movie posters: It’s Nothing Personal. Also, he’s seen this before. The gliding. The swagger. The gall.
“I think it’s just who he is when he starts playing,” Welsh said of White, the Spurs guard from Legend High, his former roommate and the cat Nuggets coach Michael Malone used to light a fire under Murray’s backside before Denver’s 117-103 victory in Game 4. “He’s very humble, mellow, kind of a quiet dude.