FINAL UPDATE: Jamal Murray's Current Status For Lakers-Nuggets Game

Jamal Murray remains listed as questionable for Game 1.

FINAL UPDATE: Jamal Murray is available, according to Mike Singer of The Denver Post. 

Jamal Murray is active for tonight, I’m told.

— Mike Singer (@msinger) May 16, 2023

UPDATE: Jamal Murray will likely play, according to head coach Michael Malone (h/t ESPN's Dave McMenamin).   

Michael Malone says Jamal Murray is still questionable for Game 1 with an illness but adds, “knowing Jamal like we all do, I think he’ll be out there giving it his all”

— Dave McMenamin (@mcten) May 16, 2023

On Tuesday evening, the Denver Nuggets are hosting the Los Angeles Lakers in Colorado for Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals.      

For the game, star point guard Jamal Murray remains listed as questionable on the 2:30 Eastern Time injury report.  

Jamal Murray is listed as questionable for tomorrow’s Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals with non-Covid illness.

Remember, before Game 6 in Phoenix he had this same status and he said after the game he was always going to play.

Also saw him at Nuggets practice today.

— Katy Winge (@katywinge) May 16, 2023

Murray had been listed as questionable for Game 6 of the second round against the Phoenix Suns (also due to an illness) but ended up playing in the game and putting up 26 points, four rebounds, four assists and four steals.   

He is one of the best point guards in the league and averaged 20.0 points, 4.0 rebounds, 6.2 assists and 1.0 steals per contest while shooting 45.4% from the field and 39.8% from the three-point range.

The Nuggets finished the regular season as the first seed in the Western Conference and defeated the Minnesota Timberwolves (in five games) and the Phoenix Suns (in six games) in the first two rounds. 

The Nuggets blow out the shorthanded Suns on the road and advance to the Western Conference Finals 🔥

Nikola Jokic:
32 PTS, 10 REBS, 12 ASTS, 13-of-18 FG

Jamal Murray:
26 PTS, 4 ASTS, 4 STLS, 4 3PT

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope:
21 PTS, 5 REBS, 2 STLS, 7-of-11 FG pic.twitter.com/G7fqeBGh5h

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) May 12, 2023

Last year, Murray missed the entire season due to injury, and the Nuggets lost in the first round to the Golden State Warriors (in five games). 

This year, they are legitimate title contenders now that they are fully healthy. 

As for the Lakers, they are the seventh seed in the west and beat the Memphis Grizzlies and Golden State Warriors in the first two rounds (in six games). 

They won the NBA Championship in 2020 (after beating the Nuggets in the Conference Finals) but are coming off a season where they missed the playoffs. 

During the regular season, each team went 2-2 in their four matchups.