What Jamal Murray and Donovan Mitchell have done in their first-round series is unprecedented, and there is still a Game 7 to play between their Denver Nuggets and Utah Jazz on Tuesday. This is must-watch NBA.
Only once has a player scored 40 or more points on four occasions in the same first-round series: New York Knicks star Bernard King’s legendary run in a five-game upset of the Detroit Pistons in 1984. Both Murray and Mitchell can match King with another 40-point outing in Game 7, and that does not even begin to describe how thrilling it has been to watch two 23-year-old guards execute at this level against each other.