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‘It doesn’t make any sense’: On the pain Anthony Davis caused and a broken Nuggets ending


LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Michael Malone couldn’t believe it.

Less than two minutes had passed since the Lakers ended his Denver Nuggets’ comeback effort so mercilessly, with Anthony Davis burying that absurd stepback 3 from the left wing at the buzzer that was the supreme achievement of his celebrated basketball career, and the coach of the team that now finds itself down 2-0 in the Western Conference Finals was pacing up and down the hallway near his team’s locker room inside this NBA bubble arena. He stared at the old-school box score in his hand, gripping the 8 ½-by-11 inch sheet of white paper and surely hoping the numbers that mattered most might magically change.

Alas, it was 105-103 Lakers, and Malone was clearly still trying to process the way it all went down.

“It doesn’t make any sense,” he said to his coaching staff as they prepared to address their devastated team.

Only Malone knows which…





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