How rare in Christian Braun? According to ESPN Stats and Information, he’s the youngest player in NBA Finals history to put up at least 15 points in under 20 minutes.
MIAMI — How rare in Christian Braun?
“I mean, the guys just trusted me all year,” Braun said after his second-half showcase — 15 points and four rebounds in 19 minutes — in the Nuggets’ Game 3 win Wednesday night. “So when I get in the game, I try to defend, do the little things … obviously, make it easier on me, my job’s not very hard.”“He showed up with that,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone said of his first-year wing out of Kansas.
That followed a sequence earlier in the game when he scored in the lane, got back on defense, picked off a Butler pass and took it the other way for a two-handed jam. “I don’t know what chain they give out after the game,” ESPN analyst Jeff Van Gundy quipped late in the broadcast, “but it better be given to Christian Braun.”
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