It’s not the cowboy you miss so much as the ride. Bruce Brown didn’t just finish Nikola Jokic’s sentences. He finished lobs with exclamation points. He spun loose balls into gold, three seconds into two points.
On Bruce Brown Day at Ball Arena, a 117-109 Nuggets victory, the most Bruce Brown moment probably came with 2.9 seconds left in the first half — 2.9 seconds that should’ve been nothing.
Jamal Murray swished a free throw that put the Nuggets up 60-55. Brucey B responded by sprinting up the right boundary like Usain Bolt, snatching the relay heave at midcourt, then blowing past the Blue Arrow, who had two fouls at the time, for a layup that just beat the buzzer
“We gave Bruce a coast-to-coast drive on a Jamal made free throw,” Denver coach Michael Malone noted after the game, “which can’t happen.