DENVER — Jamal Murray ended the Los Angeles Lakers’ so-close-and-yet-so-far season by reprising his favorite role as late-game assassin.

After hitting a fadeaway going right over Anthony Davis to seal a Game 2 win at the buzzer last week, the Denver Nuggets guard drove left this time and drifted into a picture-perfect pull-up that broke a tie for good with 3.6 seconds left in Game 5. For Murray and the Nuggets, the series-clinching bucket delivered a 108-106 victory, providing sweet relief at the end of Monday’s sloppy war of attrition and setting off a frenzied celebration at Ball Arena.