Gary Harris and Jamal Murray- One Of The League's Most Promising Young Backcourts

Though a bunch of other squads are getting the (rightly earned) playoff spotlight, Denver’s duo of Gary Harris and Jamal Murray have been growing into one of the league’s most promising young backcourts. Come this time next year, you’ll see.

- Jack Jensen

Denever is not a sacred hoops mecca. It is not a city dripping in Larry O’Brien trophies and national TV appearances. Its basketball team, the Nuggets, doesn’t play beneath a mountain of championship banners up in the rafters.

In fact, at the time this feature went to print, the Colorado franchise’s all-time NBA title count stood at an even zero.

So what.

Today’s Denver Nuggets refuse to let past or present growing pains define their future. It’s a belief spearheaded in large part by their supremely young and powerfully dynamic backcourt of Gary Harris and Jamal Murray. What the pair currently has brewing out in the Mile High has both the Nuggets organization and its fans primed to ascend to an entirely new altitude.

Still, well before dreams of ring sizings can ever take shape, Harris needs to make one thing clear: Please don’t piss off Jamal.

“The scouting report on Jamal? Don’t make him mad,” says Harris, laughing. “Once Jamal gets mad, you don’t know what you gon’ get. He’s going to be unconscious and that’s when he starts hitting all types of crazy shots, starts talking to you crazy. Being on the team, I love seeing that. I love when people piss him off. I love playing with pissed off Jamal. That shit’s fun.”