Getty Images/Ringer illustration L.A.'s latest fall-from-behind loss was also its most gut-wrenching. Try as they might, the Lakers just can't keep up with Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets. In what might have been the greatest TNT doubleheader ever, past and present blurred in strange ways, zigzagging past the boundary lines of the individual games and reinforcing motifs and iconography across time. There are standout moments in the annals of NBA lore that have no precedent, and then there are the ones that carry a lineage. The 14-second heroics of Jalen Brunson and Donte DiVincenzo on Monday night will forever be in spiritual connection with Reggie Miller's eight points in nine seconds against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden nearly 30 years ago. Likewise, there were echoes of 2013 in LeBron James's block on Jamal Murray not three minutes into Game 2 of the first-round series between the Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets in the nightcap. That was but an amuse-bouche for the agony and ecstasy to follow. There was more history to reenact. Forty-five minutes of game time later, Murray, the kung fu kid from Kitchener, Ontario, found a way to remold one of the...