Nuggets Players Perfectly Settled Free Throw Dispute With Quick Game of Rock-Paper-Scissors

Jamal Murray and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope had a creative way to determine who would be shooting the Nuggets’ technical free throws.

Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle was ejected during the third quarter of Tuesday night’s game against the Denver Nuggets following a no-call on a drive from Pascal Siakam.

After Carlisle was sent back to the locker room early, the Nuggets were awarded a pair of technical free throws.

Both Jamal Murray and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope were eager to take the foul shots, and in order to fairly settle the dispute of who would go to the line, the teammates sorted things out with a quick game of rock-paper-scissors.

While walking toward the free-throw line, Murray and Caldwell-Pope rapidly played a few rounds of rock-paper-scissors, before it was determined that the latter would be headed to the charity stripe.

Jamal and KCP played rock, paper, scissors to see who takes the technical free throws after Rick Carlisle's ejection 😅 pic.twitter.com/DOVRKSpXOp

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Caldwell-Pope emerged victorious in the game within the game against Murray, who appeared to have gone with scissors during the decisive third round of their rock-paper-scissors duel. Caldwell-Pope followed that win up by nailing both technical free throws.

Denver went on to win the game against the Pacers, 114–109, with Murray tying Nikola Jokic for a game-high 31 points. Caldwell-Pope had a strong night, too, dropping 14 points, his most since Jan. 7.