Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray has received his career-high, 48-point basketball back after Kyrie Irving threw it into a crowd to keep it away from him.

The player was on fire for his side against the Celtics last week but his attempt to get to 50 during the dying embers - with his side having already wrapped up the game - didn't sit well with Irving, who tossed the ball into the stands.

Usually, players get to keep the ball they score their career highs with. But Murray wasn't afforded the liberty right away.

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“The ball deserves to go in the crowd after a bulls**t move like that," the Celtics guard said to reporters after the game. "So I threw it in the crowd.”

Fortunately for Murray, and embarrassingly for Irving, the person who caught the ball is a young Nuggets fan who has since returned it to the former University of Kentucky star.

The Nuggets made a point of sharing that tidbit via their Twitter account during the week in a possible attempt to rile Kyrie up further.

“I think my emotions took over, as it normally does," Murray said after the game. "No disrespect to the Boston organization and fans with that shot - I just had in my mind that I was going to go 50, and I think everybody kind of understood that was what I was trying to do.

"I really wasn't meaning no disrespect. I know half the team over there, so no hard feelings.”

Meanwhile, Irving has let the player know that the Celtics will be monitoring him closely when they meet again.

"You just don't play basketball like that. Obviously, you've won the game, you have it sealed; that's just so thirsty of a player to just go after something like that," he said following a $25,000 fine for his actions.

"We'll see him again, though."

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