ATLANTA – Jamal Murray could only crack a joke at the Nuggets’ unfortunate rash of injuries that threatened to spread even deeper down the bench Saturday night.
“Our bench is going to our bench,” he said with a tongue-in-cheek laugh following Saturday’s demoralizing 106-98 loss to the Atlanta Hawks. “We got Juancho (Hernangomez) playing the four. Everything comes off as improvising, a little bit out of our comfort zone sometimes. We might call on (injured rookies) Jarred (Vanderbilt) and Michael Porter to come in the game, you never know.”
One night after losing Paul Millsap to a broken right big toe – the third starter who’s been bedeviled by injuries – it looked like Murray might be the latest Nuggets starter to sustain an ailment.