After two years away, Bruce Brown’s first electrifying interaction with the home crowd this season cost him some wind.

The Nuggets guard chased Indiana’s Andrew Nembhard around a screen Saturday. He knocked the ball free while recovering back into position. Tim Hardaway Jr. was the beneficiary. The loose ball fell into his hands near the sideline.

Brown was already racing up the middle of the floor. He caught a quick pass ahead and beelined to the rim. But Pacers forward Pascal Siakam was hot in pursuit, and Isaiah Jackson was behind him for the rebound after Brown missed a contested layup.

No matter. Brown, whose momentum had carried him out of bounds, jumped back into the play, ripped the ball from the larger Jackson and went up with it again. Amped by his own relentlessness , h

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