LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Jamal Murray is not here for your participation trophy, your praise, or your conspiracy theories about the refs. He has no interest in being the villain in the latest season of The LeBron James Show. Murray played Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals like he expects to win a championship. His Nuggets lost, which can only mean one thing: Murray will play Game 5 like he expects to win a championship.
The Lakers beat the Nuggets, 114-108, to take a 3-1 series lead, and this is when we reach into our bottomless bag of cliches to say the Lakers “seized control.