“I definitely enjoy guarding the best players,” Nuggets' Zeke Nnaji said. “My mindset is trying to lock them down and stop them.”
When Luka Doncic engineered a switch in the second half of Denver’s rousing win in Dallas on Sunday, the Slovenian megastar got way more than he bargained for.
Doncic, a fierce competitor who was already emotionally charged, took the boast personally though Nnaji said that wasn’t his intention. That preempted this illuminating exchange, which Nnaji recounted from Tuesday’s shootaround before facing Detroit. That encounter was indicative of a resilient Nuggets team that had far more fight than they did only two nights earlier, when they were also down starters Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray and Aaron Gordon.“I definitely enjoy guarding the best players,” Nnaji said. “My mindset is trying to lock them down and stop them.”
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