When people say he doesn’t care about individual achievements or stats, he genuinely does not care. It’s not “every professional athlete cares about stats and awards and he’s just faking it for the press” like the comments that always pop up in these threads say. He has always said the same stuff. He does not give a shit. The only accolade he’s ever cared about was the Nuggets assist record because he said it shows he’s a good teammate
Balls_of_Adamanthium
There’s a lot of guys that pretend not to give a shit about the stats but in reality they do. Jokić is not one of them.
NeedySuburb
Gotta love Joker
Lookmeinmyeyesandlie
Americans are obsessed with numbers period, money, rates, stats etc.
LordBaneoftheSith
Comrade Jokic
GovernmentDoingStuff
They aren’t even obsessed with stats, they’re obsessed with narratives like a goddamn soap opera.
I understand that’s what sells, but it’s the worst
ThatBballIQ
See, Jokic doesn’t want anyone to talk about stats anymore. No more Jokic debates on nba sub reddit!
dys0n_giddey
Joker and Jimmy should be on the same team together
MrFishownertwo
I feel like that connects with the american obsession with individual greatness and talent
Pizza_Squeegee
I bet Jokic gives awesome hugs.
durklil
I agree and it’s gotten like this for high school basketball. Which you should dominate but if you play for a team with other ranked/D1 talent you aren’t gonna average 20-25 points and the things I see some of these dudes get hated on because they don’t play at a public school shooting 25 shots a game.
Emergency-Dot-8611
NBA media ask Jokic about anything else challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
ichosetobehere
It’s not just American sports media, it’s the fans. Check out this sub lol
BlueHundred
Jokic just plays winning basketball and the stats follow. You can’t get assists if your teammates don’t score. You can’t score if you’re teammates don’t put you in a position to score
Star-K
TOO WOKE
nflfan32
It’s fine that Jokic doesn’t care, but I don’t think it’s a bad thing for the media to enjoy stats. Watching the first-ever 30-20-10 triple double in NBA Finals history is a cool feat. To me it’d be boring if sports media *only* talked about team success.
Personal_Quantity_55
I’m sure I’m alone on this but the one thing I don’t like about Jokics likable personality is the complete refusal to acknowledge he is a great player.
Like… dude… you’re a living legend. Can we just appreciate you please? Why is it so annoying for him to be admired? It’s bizarre
Gocrazyfut
Yes. Definitely just an American thing.
redonkulus
He legit tanked the last month of the season to avoid another MVP award. Killed my fantasy team because of it.
Ziobot
Damn, how can we not love this man.
NAACP_YoungBoy
Jokic DESTROYS r/nba nephews with FACTS and LOGIC
griffskry
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, Jokic is a basketball socialist. The vanguard of the basketball revolution. He siezes the means of point production and distributes it amongst the hard working role players
ProfessionalCorgi250
I think it’s related to the popularity of soccer. Watching soccer helps you appreciate contributions that don’t get picked up in the stat sheet. You learn to appreciate players playing their designated role well. Zidane never scored 20 goals in a season but his highlights are amazing.
EazyParise
The new Korver Bird. *SQUAWK, TEAM BASKETBALL*
CaffeineJunkee
He reminds me of Adam Sandler in The Waterboy explaining what he does to be such a good football player.
WhileFalseRepeat
Preach.
I understand the desire to become historically relevant, but Jokic is proof you can do that in ways other than individual glory.
Dudedude88
This video encapsulates how much he doesn’t care. You can tell he wants to never answer a stats question ever but is too nice to say no to them.
bloodmuffins793
That’s my 300 pound sloppy fat boy
hyunghoon
This dude is a winner.
elbrandonoliver
Scottie is losing his mind right now.
california-whiskey
this dude cooked us and somehow i still love him
farfetchchch
It’s true. Every single playoff game a player seems to break some oddly specific “record”.
Some random shit like “first player to have 3 steals and shoot at least 60% from the free throw line in the first half since Branson McWendys in 1983”.
Jokic very much aware that Murray is the head of the snake
IamNOBODY1973
This is obviously a slight directed at stat padding Giannis.
NuggetEagle
I love Jokic and i love his mentality, but i am also a huge stats guy, have been all my life, in all sports. Stats mean nothing until they do. They don’t mean anything in a one off game but when you check Jokics W/L when recording a triple double this season for example, you can see it directly has an impact on the Nuggets winning. Every stat will be proven wrong/false at one point, but the bigger the sample size, the better the indication how they impact the game. Anyway, love Joker and really want to see his reaction if/when this team wins it all
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Europeans goanna European.
When people say he doesn’t care about individual achievements or stats, he genuinely does not care. It’s not “every professional athlete cares about stats and awards and he’s just faking it for the press” like the comments that always pop up in these threads say. He has always said the same stuff. He does not give a shit. The only accolade he’s ever cared about was the Nuggets assist record because he said it shows he’s a good teammate
There’s a lot of guys that pretend not to give a shit about the stats but in reality they do. Jokić is not one of them.
Gotta love Joker
Americans are obsessed with numbers period, money, rates, stats etc.
Comrade Jokic
They aren’t even obsessed with stats, they’re obsessed with narratives like a goddamn soap opera.
I understand that’s what sells, but it’s the worst
See, Jokic doesn’t want anyone to talk about stats anymore. No more Jokic debates on nba sub reddit!
Joker and Jimmy should be on the same team together
I feel like that connects with the american obsession with individual greatness and talent
I bet Jokic gives awesome hugs.
I agree and it’s gotten like this for high school basketball. Which you should dominate but if you play for a team with other ranked/D1 talent you aren’t gonna average 20-25 points and the things I see some of these dudes get hated on because they don’t play at a public school shooting 25 shots a game.
NBA media ask Jokic about anything else challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
It’s not just American sports media, it’s the fans. Check out this sub lol
Jokic just plays winning basketball and the stats follow. You can’t get assists if your teammates don’t score. You can’t score if you’re teammates don’t put you in a position to score
TOO WOKE
It’s fine that Jokic doesn’t care, but I don’t think it’s a bad thing for the media to enjoy stats. Watching the first-ever 30-20-10 triple double in NBA Finals history is a cool feat. To me it’d be boring if sports media *only* talked about team success.
I’m sure I’m alone on this but the one thing I don’t like about Jokics likable personality is the complete refusal to acknowledge he is a great player.
Like… dude… you’re a living legend. Can we just appreciate you please? Why is it so annoying for him to be admired? It’s bizarre
Yes. Definitely just an American thing.
He legit tanked the last month of the season to avoid another MVP award. Killed my fantasy team because of it.
Damn, how can we not love this man.
Jokic DESTROYS r/nba nephews with FACTS and LOGIC
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, Jokic is a basketball socialist. The vanguard of the basketball revolution. He siezes the means of point production and distributes it amongst the hard working role players
I think it’s related to the popularity of soccer. Watching soccer helps you appreciate contributions that don’t get picked up in the stat sheet. You learn to appreciate players playing their designated role well. Zidane never scored 20 goals in a season but his highlights are amazing.
The new Korver Bird. *SQUAWK, TEAM BASKETBALL*
He reminds me of Adam Sandler in The Waterboy explaining what he does to be such a good football player.
Preach.
I understand the desire to become historically relevant, but Jokic is proof you can do that in ways other than individual glory.
This video encapsulates how much he doesn’t care. You can tell he wants to never answer a stats question ever but is too nice to say no to them.
That’s my 300 pound sloppy fat boy
This dude is a winner.
Scottie is losing his mind right now.
this dude cooked us and somehow i still love him
It’s true. Every single playoff game a player seems to break some oddly specific “record”.
Some random shit like “first player to have 3 steals and shoot at least 60% from the free throw line in the first half since Branson McWendys in 1983”.
Gotta love that the next reddit post is [this](https://i.imgur.com/8CZ2eoV.png)
Jokic very much aware that Murray is the head of the snake
This is obviously a slight directed at stat padding Giannis.
I love Jokic and i love his mentality, but i am also a huge stats guy, have been all my life, in all sports. Stats mean nothing until they do. They don’t mean anything in a one off game but when you check Jokics W/L when recording a triple double this season for example, you can see it directly has an impact on the Nuggets winning. Every stat will be proven wrong/false at one point, but the bigger the sample size, the better the indication how they impact the game. Anyway, love Joker and really want to see his reaction if/when this team wins it all