The legs aren’t gone. It’s that they come and go like an outdoor cat, a pair of unfettered, unpredictable beasts, feral and finicky.
“Gotta get my explosion back,” Christian Braun told me late Wednesday night after his Nuggets hit the All-Star break with a 102-98 loss to Sacramento and riding a three-game, they-kinda-look-gassed losing streak.
“That’s a big part of my game is the explosion, the burst … I don’t think I’ve had that for a month or two. I haven’t had that explosion for a month or two.