Jamal Murray will be celebrating Valentine's Day with a blue arrow when he takes part in his first 3-Point Contest during NBA All-Star Weekend. The participant list, reported by Marc Stein, includes a surprise contestant in Damian Lillard, who's out for the season with an Achilles injury. Lillard has won two out of the past three competitions.
Murray's participation in the event all but assures Nuggets fans that he's healthy and ready to go after a small scare at the end of the Nuggets' 136-120 win over the Bulls. Murray was noticeably limping, but David Adelman said after the game that Murray had told him that he was "OK.