Brown teases Murray for lack of swag after earning DPOG chain originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea
Keegan Murray had himself a night on Wednesday.
“Confidence” was the word being tossed around the rookie after a career game in Sacramento’s 134-120 win over the Los Angeles Lakers at Golden 1 Center.
That confident approach, however, apparently diminished in the locker room after the game. The rookie’s impressive performance against LeBron James and Co. earned him the iconic, blinged-out Defensive Player of the Game chain.
But Mike Brown hilariously exposed what really went on in the locker room.
“From what I heard, this is rumor mill now, I heard he broke it,” Brown told reporters postgame. “It’s gon’ eat into his lottery money if he did.”
It doesn’t end there.
Brown couldn’t help himself from taking the time to poke fun at the young rookie.
“The second thing is, when we handed it out to [Domantas Sabonis] and [Harrison Barnes], they’ve had a lot of swag when they put it on. And literally, they put the chain on Keegan and Keegan just stood here like this,” Brown said as he stood up in a still pose while the room erupted in laughter. “And they were like ‘Have some swag! Do something!’ and so Keegan was like ‘Come on over, come on over,’ and then he just stood there.
“He might not want to bring it up because if you ask his teammates, about his swag when it went across his neck, he might get killed a little bit.”
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Well, you can’t have it all, right?
Murray finished the game tying his career high in points, scoring 23 points on 7-of-17 shooting from the field and had a plus/minus rating of plus-24.
It’s safe to say the rook’s confidence is back, and his swagger is … still loading.