Nikola Jokic on importance of getting No. 1 seed: The West is REALLY, REALLY TOUGH | SportsCenter
Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic joins John Anderson on SportsCenter following the Denver Nuggets’ win vs. the Minnesota Timberwolves where he recorded his 47th career game with 35 PTS, 10 REB & 5 AST. Jokic discusses seeding in the Western Conference and defending their title.
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MVP!!! MVP
Jokic: "80 games is easy."
Embiid: "Hold my knee."
Hear me out. Nikola plays like LeBron in his prime. The first 2-3 quarters he's passive aggressive by getting his teammates involved and by the 4th quarter when the game is completive he takes over.
Fo’ fo’ fo’ fo’
Mark my words. The NBA (or Vegas) already has this planned out.
Kings and Pelis will get tossed out of the play-in, NBA/ESPN doesn’t care about those 2 teams.
Forget the quarters. Western semis will be GSW/LAL and PHX/DAL
LAL will beat GSW and beat whoever between PHX/DAL in the WCF.
LAL will beat whoever in the finals.
Lebron will announce his retirement the end of the season and the media is going to go crazy as he will end his 20 year career with a championship. I’ll be glad if I’m wrong but the stars are just lining up too easily for this to happen.
Air quotes when saying "2nd team".. thats a fkn leader
so humbe, always the team not him and he praised his opponents as well
the west will never not be the dominant conference in basketball. and probably all sports
The worse league mvp in the last 40 years of this league 💯👎
Best nugget ever!! So grateful to Nikola!! I waited 15 years to see the nuggets win that Larry o brien.. thank you Nikola!!
One game at a time! Bravo Nuggets! My MVP Nikola Jokic
A summary of Jokic's last four regular seasons
1.
2020-21 : 26.5 pts 10.8rebs , 8.3 ast (57% fg, 38% 3 ).
Carried the injured Nuggets to the 3rd seed in the West. (Murray tore his ACL, Will Barton and Monte Morris missed a lot of games).
In this season Jokic shot a whopping 14% more efficiently than Westbrook in his MVP season (twice the gap in efficiency between OKC Kd and Weetbrook).
2. 2021-2022
27/ 13.8/ 7.9/ 1.5 / 1 on 58%fg
This season is beyond historic. He carried the depleted Nuggets to the Playoffs. No Murray, No Porter Jr and a bunch of g league players to 48 wins (6th seed in the West).
He broke Wilt's player efficiency record season, led the league in every advanced stat and set new records (2000 points, 1000 rebounds, 500 assists in a season,
the only player that is top ten in the league in 5 different total categories : points, rebounds, assists, steals, field goal percentage)
3. 2022-23
24.5/11.8/ 9.8 on 63%fg and 38% from 3
Jokic was selected for 2nd team all NBA and finished second in the MVP race.
As a result of Perkin's accusations Jokic last weeks of the season were less dominant than over the course of the season where at at one point in March he was averaging 25/12/10 on 60%fg/ 40% from 3.
Jokic, for the first time with a healthy roster in his prime led the Nuggets to the 1st seed in the West. Once obtained the 1st seed in December, the Nuggets held on to it for nearly four months.
This season is the highest true shooting 20 point game season ever with 70%, surpassing Kd and Curry's most efficient seasons.
Of the top twenty seasons with highest true shooting percentage, Jokic is the only player to average more than 20 points. (Usually lob threats who average around 14 pts such as Deandre Jordan are in these lists but not all around scorers who tend to be less efficient ).
4. 2023-24
26/12.3/9 57%fg
Jokic is as dominant as usual and once again he has the Nuggets as the 1 seed in the difficult Western Conference. Jokic ranks fifth in total points, third in total rebounds, second in total assists.
Jamal Murray missed roughly 24 games.
In the past four seasons Jokic has been the best combination of floor raising, team value, dominance, efficiency and talent in the history of the NBA.
Ja Morant: "I'm fine in the West"
The toughest to guard right now!!!!
why everyone pushing rudy for dpoy wemby just had a block party on this team. roy dpoy wemby
I like Jokic, he said he would rather give the MVP to Luka this season. He would rather win his 2nd championship.
Jokic the goat, nothing else
Joker the accountability to any NBA’s Batman
even with home court advantage, the wolves still almost beat the nugget, with no kat, edward not performing as usual
Love the nuggets ❤
If the nuggets players manage to stay injure free, they will be champions again, and again, and again. They are the best team in the NBA.
Mvp
MVP
Please leave us(Lakers) alone , we have had enough bullying from you, can't stand another sweep!
The west is kinda tough. The east kinda easy?
Don’t give joker mvp! Last time you gave the pity mvp to embiid and nuggets dominated the playoffs. He’s the best and anyone with eyes knows it, but give it to Luka so we can win another ring 😂
The advantage Denver has with the altitude is pretty obvious. Run hard, gas the opponent's first team, don't miss threes.
It’s like he just knows exactly what to do to get the job done. Exactly what numbers to put up to seal the deal. No one’s beating a healthy Denver team in the postseason. 💯
Love how he put "second unit" in quotes with his hands. He know how important every piece is to win a chip. Team first guy, how can anyone hate this man
Ended the MVP conversation last night.
How are you not famous yet? This is gold! 🤩👑
He's right, the west regardless of the seed, top 10 teams are really tough. They all have potential to win the chip this year.
I love Jokic man. His leadership in how he always shows up for both his team and each of his teammates is what leads to NBA championships
Did he just say 2 easy games coming up 🤦 this is the NBA and upsets happen all the time not very many games are easy! The ones that are easy is just a fluke because you can't miss anything and they can't hit anything!
Most overrated player of all time about to steal another MVP 🤮 5 playoff wins in his two “MVP” seasons
he dosent make it seem REALLY TOUGH tho
80 games is easy 🤣
not him cringing at 2:31's confidence😂
But when minny beat them last leek espn had no segments smh
“They have an ANT as their anchor 🐜 “ 😂😂