Jamal Murray had the best reaction to hearing Donovan Mitchell finished with 57 points

I told you these NBA playoffs are going to be a lot of fun and then the Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets went out there in the first game today and showed us that yeah, this is going to be sooooooo fun.

The Nuggets missed a buzzer-beater at the end of the fourth before going to overtime where they ran away from the Jazz with a 135-125 win in Game 1.

But the story of this one was the absolute show that Utah’s Donovan Mitchell and Denver’s Jamal Murray put on, especially down the stretch and then in overtime.

Mitchell finished with 57 points (after scoring just two points in the first quarter) and Murray had 36, including 20 in the fourth quarter and overtime combined.

Murray had a great reaction to hearing that Mitchell had 57 points in the game:

Even Jamal Murray couldn't believe Donovan Mitchell's final line 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/r1kosFN0Hs

— NUMBER ONE NETS FAN ACCOUNT (@ringernba) August 17, 2020

These two guards were trading buckets down the stretch that had NBA fans in awe on a Monday afternoon in August:

Donovan Mitchell and Jamal Murray exchanging buckets in crunch time. Playoff basketball 🔥 pic.twitter.com/ZHwF8cQBNF

— NBA Central (@TheNBACentral) August 17, 2020

Donovan Mitchell and Jamal Murray should be able to go 1-on-1 for the rest of the game. Like, there should be a rule where if both teams agree to it, the other 8 players leave the court and the game is settled by 1-on-1

— Rodger Sherman (@rodger) August 17, 2020

Donovan Mitchell v Jamal Murray is straight stupid right now

— Jim Rome (@jimrome) August 17, 2020

Thank you to Jamal Murray, Donovan Mitchell and Doris Burke for a tremendous opening game.

— Chris Grenham (@chrisgrenham) August 17, 2020

Jamal Murray seeing Donovan Mitchell start to get hot: pic.twitter.com/eS5dZrPk1f

— T.J. McBride (@TJMcBrideNBA) August 17, 2020

Jamal Murray & Donovan Mitchell in the final 2 minutes pic.twitter.com/ySDoybjwGJ

— Overtime (@overtime) August 17, 2020