The reigning champion Denver Nuggets have been a perpetual thorn in the sides of your Los Angeles Lakers all year.
And that's not just because Denver keeps beating LA this season.
Denver keeps beating LA at the most inopportune times possible this season! The victories extended to an opening night takedown, a win on the night that Crypto.com Arena revealed the first of three planned statues for Hall of Fame LA shooting guard Kobe Bryant, and most recently, this past Saturday evening, when Lakers superstar forward LeBron James notched his 40,000th regular season career point scored, a potentially unbeatably metric of scoring excellence.
Are those last two scheduling instances just unhappy coincidences? Probably.
Nevertheless, as Bennett Durando of The Denver Post details, even the Nuggets themselves have started to notice. Star point guard Jamal Murray actually kind of sounds like he feels, well, bad that his superior club has to keep beating the Lakers during these big nights.
“It’s weird,” Murray said. “Every time there’s some night in L.A., we’ve gotta play them, you know? Like, first game of the season, revenge game? We play them. Mamba Night? We play them. LeBron night? We play them. It’s like, man, give them somebody else.”
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