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As Jamal Murray Gets His Groove Back, The Denver Nuggets Are Surging
Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray is on a markedly bettering trajectory this season, and his robust … [+]
Within the Denver Nuggets’ win final Monday over the injury-depleted Los Angeles Lakers, start line guard Jamal Murray netted a season-high 34 factors to guide all scorers within the recreation.
His efficiency showcased maybe the strongest proof thus far that he’s nearer than ever to regaining his earlier kind since recovering from the ACL harm he incurred on April 12, 2021, which sidelined him for nicely over a season and two Nuggets playoff runs.
Murray, Denver’s start line guard and longtime co-pilot to back-to-back MVP Nikola Jokic, had in truth not scored as many factors in almost two years, along with his most up-to-date 34-point (on the nostril) efficiency relationship again to lower than a month earlier than his harm.
The Blue Arrow’s large recreation in opposition to Los Angeles isn’t solely a authentic milestone in his rehabilitation course of, however can be certainly each one other confidence-booster as he regains belief in his physique and conditioning, and in addition a reorientation for the Nuggets that they haven’t just one celebrity in Jokic (who carried the workforce with Herculean heroics in Murray’s absence), however arguably the NBA’s most deadly offensive duo within the type of their almost unstoppable two-man recreation.
Jamal Murray Is Trending Up Bigtime
Murray’s pretty shaky and uneven begin to the season was solely to be anticipated after such an extended absence from enjoying actual reside NBA basketball on the court docket. Whereas there have been flashes early within the season of “bubble Jamal” (a time period which has now turn out to be shorthand for what’s extensively thought to be the thus-far profession pinnacle of his efficiency within the 2020 playoffs), there have been additionally stretches which seemed to be one step ahead and two steps again.
That equation has clearly flipped in current weeks, with Murray increasingly more persistently not solely rediscovering his taking pictures rhythm, but additionally playmaking and defending at ranges pretty much as good as, if not higher than he’s seen in his total profession.
And it’s not solely the “eye check,”, the numbers clearly again up Murray’s marked enchancment over the course of this season.
Jamal Murray 2022-23 Statistics In His First 14 Video games vs. His Subsequent 20 Video games
Along with total counting stat manufacturing in factors, rebounds and assists, Murray’s taking pictures and playmaking effectivity have seen an uptick throughout the board, with each his scoring and taking pictures percentages on the rise, in addition to his assists.
The regular and steep upward pattern this season in Murray’s cumulative true taking pictures share, which accounts for the added worth of each three-pointers and free throws, is especially noteworthy.
Jamal Murray 2022-23 Cumulative True Taking pictures Proportion
All of those developments will inevitably plateau out in some unspecified time in the future, in fact, however contemplating the tempo of Murray’s still-improving trajectory and his still-young age at 25 years outdated, the Nuggets ought to have a excessive diploma of confidence that by the tip of the common season and the playoffs, their star level guard is not going to solely have totally regained his earlier kind however stands a superb probability of being even higher.
When Murray Has Performed Higher, The Nuggets Have Gained Extra
Denver is presently on an prolonged tear, having received 18 of their final 24 video games (or 75%), and through that span placing in an NBA third-best internet ranking of plus-6.6 factors per possessions, the general league-leading offensive ranking of 119.7, and a Twelfth-best defensive ranking 113.1 – which, whereas clearly nonetheless not cracking the highest ten, is an enormous enchancment over being twenty fourth in protection as much as that time, per NBA.com.
And whereas the everlasting caveat of correlation not essentially equaling causation needs to be stored in thoughts, the info does certainly present a really robust correlation this season between robust single-game Jamal Murray performances and Denver Nuggets wins, because the chart under exhibits.
Comparting Jamal Murray Recreation Scores and the Denver Nuggets’ Level Differentials this season exhibits a … [+]
Plotted listed here are the outcomes of Basketball Reference’s “recreation rating” metric, which they describe as “a tough measure of a participant’s productiveness for a single recreation,” for every of his video games, as compared with the purpose differential in Nuggets recreation outcomes (wins within the plus, losses within the minus), The yellow horizontal line represents Murray’s common recreation rating this season of 13.9. The variety of every level on the chart is Denver’s recreation quantity this season, with video games Murray didn’t play excluded.
When Murray has had a recreation rating above his season common, the Nuggets have received 15 video games and misplaced solely three, for a completely dominant win share of .833.
Additionally price noting is that the preponderance of Murray’s video games above his private common present a recreation variety of 20 or larger, one other clear indicator that his efficiency actually cranked up within the second quarter of the season versus the primary.
On the aforementioned correlation versus causation caveat, it must be identified that the Nuggets’ current surge additionally coincides with the return of ahead Michael Porter Jr., who has performed in Denver’s final 11 video games since returning on December twenty third from an harm absence of a couple of month. Clearly, his re-addition has additionally given the Nuggets a lift, as has head coach Michael Malone determining a bench rotation which has stopped hemorrhaging factors at its woeful early season charges when Nikola Jokic is resting.
However the hyperlink between Murray enjoying nice and the Nuggets profitable is powerful, at the very least thus far within the season, and that’s implausible information for Denver, who desperately missed his contributions of their final two playoff runs.
The Nuggets have unambiguous championship aspirations this season, and a wholesome, recovered, totally armed and operational Jamal Murray is proving to make these hopes all of the extra practical.
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Prolonged ‘Welly weather,’ our first taste of winter and Lisa’s official first-snow prediction for Denver
Lisa Hidalgo and Ryan Warner were ready to bust out the rain boots for their September weather and climate chat.
Denver7’s chief meteorologist and the Colorado Public Radio host delved into a rare, days-long rainy stretch, our first taste of winter and the pair’s official first-snow-date prediction for Denver.
‘Welly weather’
“Two things happened this week that rarely happen in Colorado,” Warner said. “The first is that when I went to bed it was raining. I woke up and it was raining. And two, the rain meant I could wear my ‘Wellies,’ my Wellington boots.”
“These are rare events,” the green-rubber-boot-clad Warner quipped during the conversation.
Warner and Hidalgo held their conversation on the heels of an unusually rainy spell. In Colorado, rain storms often come and go quickly. This week’s rainfall, though, came during a slow-moving storm.
“It’s more the direction of it and where it camps out,” Hidalgo explained. “So as you get a low pressure system rolling through the state, and we get all this moisture that wraps around the back side of it, it jams up against the foothills. It’s called an upslope flow.”
In the winter, such a storm would’ve meant inches of snow in Denver. With September highs in the 50s, though, it came down as rain in town as it snowed in the high country.
First taste of winter
The National Weather Service in Boulder estimated Tuesday that “a widespread 5-10 inches” of snow fell at the highest elevations – above 10,500 to 11,000 feet – during the September 22-23 storm.
For the snow-lovers out there (keep scrolling if that’s not you)…
Some healthy snowfall over the past ~18 hrs for some of our higher elevations (mainly east of the Continental Divide above 10,500′).
Pictured: Dakota Hill (Gilpin Co; left); Killpecker (Larimer Co; right) #COwx pic.twitter.com/46surChItd
— NWS Boulder (@NWSBoulder) September 24, 2025
Hidalgo noted things would quickly warm up after what was the area’s first winter weather advisory of the season.
“But this is just a hint of what’s to come,” she said. “And, obviously, we’re going to see a lot more alerts as we get into fall and into winter.”
When will Denver see its first measurable snow?
On average, the first snowfall in Denver happens on Oct. 18. The window has already passed for our earliest first snow, which happened on Sept. 3. The latest first snow in Denver is Dec. 10 – Lisa’s birthday.
With all of that in consideration, Hidalgo predicted this year’s first snow in Denver would fall on Oct. 24.
Warner’s guess? A potentially soggy evening of trick-or-treating after an Oct. 29 first snow.
More weather in-depth
Lisa and Ryan touched on studies on potential connections between both lightning and snowmelt on Colorado’s year-round fire season. They also discussed a study that suggests the eastern half of Colorado is drying out faster than the western half.
For more in-depth weather analysis, watch their full weather and climate chat in the video player below:
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Some Park Hill residents feel Denver is failing on minority outreach in golf course discussion
Saturday morning at Park Hill’s Hiawatha Davis Recreation Center, the City of Denver held a community open house to talk about its next big project: the city park and open space that was formerly the Park Hill Golf Course.
“It’s quite rare for a city to have this large of a park coming in. So it’s really important to us that that process is driven by the community,” said Sarah Showalter, director of planning and policy at the city’s Department of Community Planning and Development.
Residents got to see the plans for the park and the future the city has in store for the surrounding neighborhood.
“The voters clearly said that 155 acres should be a park, but the community is still looking for access to food and to affordable housing,” said Jolon Clark, executive director of Denver Parks and Recreation.
It seemed to be a good turnout, which the city likes, but two groups that appeared to be underrepresented were Black and Latino people, which is a problem, since Park Hill is a historically Black neighborhood.
Helen Bradshaw is a lifelong Park Hill resident. She and Vincent Owens, another long-time resident, came to the open house and said the problem is simple: the city isn’t meeting the neighbors of color where they are.
“The people who are just the average go to work, they might be at work or they have to work today or, you know, they couldn’t get a babysitter or something like that,” Owens said. “A lot of the elders on my block, they’re not going to come to something like this. So, you need to canvass and actually go get the voice of opinion, or they don’t know about it.”
Bradshaw and Owens say they want a neighborhood park and space for the neighbors by the neighbors. They also want a grocery store and opportunities for people who were part of the neighborhood long before it became a gem for development.
The city says that’s what they want as well, and that’s why they want everyone in Park Hill to give their input until the project is done.
“People can go to ParkHillPark.org and they can fully get involved and find out what the next engagement is, how to provide their input, you know, through an email, through a survey,” said Clark.
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