Jamal Murray made it look easy. His shoulders were relaxed, his grin discernible from the nosebleeds. He yielded two basketballs, one in each hand, and that fittingly seemed to elicit twice the usual joy and confidence as he goofed around with a couple of Nuggets understudies.
It was Nov. 24, and Murray was putting on a pregame ball-handling clinic for teammates DaRon Holmes and Curtis Jones in Memphis. He dribbled one between his legs and the other behind his back in the same motion, seamlessly transferring both from one hand to the other — synchronized, smooth, effortless.