The Nuggets cannot go through this again. The team and the fans cannot take another Blue Arrow to the heart.
Everyone reveled in Jamal Murray’s playoff excellence en route to a championship. But Nuggets Nation suffered as Murray has dealt with one injury after another the past two seasons, bad luck and poor early-season conditioning conspiring to make him look old at the age of 28.
Now comes a chance for a reset. An opportunity to make critics — myself among them — swallow their tongues.
Friday, as co-general managers Jon Wallace and Ben Tenzer talked about the Nuggets’ upgraded roster, flashbacks interrupted the joy.