Nuggets’ Malone Rips Media After Win vs Lakers: ‘Put That in Your Pipe, You Smoke It’
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Michael Malone is tried of the disrespect.
And after the Denver Nuggets went up 2-0 in the Western Conference Finals over the Los Angeles Lakers, he was ready to let the arena to find out about it.
Following Sport 1, most of the epic surrounded the Lakers’ stable performance in direction of the tip of the game pretty than Nikola Jokić’s ancient 34 substances, 21 rebounds and 14 assists in the Nuggets’ fetch.
Malone was ready to position the file straight after Sport 2.
“The national epic [after Game 1] was, ‘Hi there, the Lakers are stunning,'” Malone talked about in his postgame press convention. “… No one talked about Nikola fair had a ancient performance. … The epic wasn’t about the Nuggets. The epic wasn’t about Nikola. … You build that in your pipe, you smoke it. And you come motivate, and what, we’re gonna walk up 2-0.”
He was especially ready to transfer to bat for Jokić, who regularly gets lost sight of by the national media due to the an absence of exposure. ESPN’s Lisa Salters admitted Tuesday’s Sport 1 was her first time staring on the 2-time MVP play.
“I gotta admit, I have been dozing on this guy,” Salters talked about whereas acting on The Rich Eisen Repeat.
Malone had just a few jokes in store for those no longer too accustomed to Jokić’s game.
“Nikola Jokić, for folks who form no longer know him, he’s bought 13 triple-doubles in these playoffs now,” he talked about.
Denver’s Sport 2 fetch was maybe important more spectacular than Sport 1 pondering that it needed to comeback from a double-digit deficit in the 2nd half to drag it out.
It was Jamal Murray’s game-excessive 37 substances that led the model. He hit so a lot of huge shots down the stretch to succor the Nuggets grab a 2-0 sequence consequence in Los Angeles.
