“Best player in the world” – Nuggets & Timberwolves Talk Nikola Jokic’s SPECIAL Game 5
Since 1977-78, Nikola Jokic joins Chris Paul as the only players to tally 40+ pts, 10+ ast with 0 turnovers in a playoff game.
Nikola Jokic lead the Denver Nuggets with 40 points (15-22 FG), 7 rebounds and 13 assists to a 112-97 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 5. The Nuggets lead the best-of-seven series, 3-2, with Game 6 taking place Thursday, May 16 (8:30 PM ET, ESPN)
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MVP vs DPOY and the MVP cooked with ease
Prime Jokic > Prime Lebron
First but i have shit phone. So i will be 10001….
Rudy gets a lot of undeserved hate. Just because you get cooked by Jokic it doesn't make you a bum, he literally does it to everyone. Jokic could've probably got at least 60pts on most players if he goes at them the way he went at Gobert.
The best player in the NBA is White.
DEAL WITH IT! 😉
Lakers fan know how they feel😂
Laker fans know how they Feel😂
Real talk Rudy would shut down any other center. Jokic just too damn good
Surely now no stopping the nuggets from going to the conference finals. Even Minnesota are singing Jokic praises already
jokic is so gifted offensively he's also the defensive player of the year cuz whoever he plays he automatically is also the better defender LMAO. Lebron and Jordan are great but could never.
Nikola is a member of MENSA!!!!
HELLO
HELLO
I know that somehow, someway, Rudy is gonna get most of the blame if the Timberwolves lose this series. All because Jokić is just that damn good. It annoyed me when Reggie Miller chastised Rudy for not defending Jokić. Had he not been watching the game? It just didn't matter.
attack is the best defense!!!
Prime Jokic= Darkseid
To see amazing offensive actions, we need great defensers. That was a great game to see. But to stop a MVP, you need another MVP 😵🤯😅. To stop Steph & dub squad, CAVS needed Lebron ! Love Rudy 😉🇨🇵, keep pushing💪.
To see amazing offensive actions, we need great defensive players. That was a great game to see. But to stop a MVP, you need another MVP 😵🤯😅. To stop Steph & dub squad, CAVS needed Lebron ! Love Rudy 😉🇨🇵, keep pushing💪.
Clark is gonna be even more depressed now
People should start to accept he's up there with MJ and Kobe
Jokic hit some tough buckets over Rudy. You just gotta tip your cap. He was doing that to AD not too long ago and some people say AD should have been DPOY.
You can't guard brain, that's it.
Shaq and Gil Arenas are literally hiding in cave right now
Rudy is like Camby and Garnett that won DPOY(deservingly) but in no way stopping a bigger player like Shaq 1-vs-1. And right now, Jokic and Embiid are the biggest player in this small ball NBA.
You all think Wemby or Bam or Ad could do better?
the only upside of this 3 over Rudy is they could do better offensively. SO in some way, they could negate some of Jokic production. But to lock him up completely? No
Wolfs had the best game and result in this series without Gobert!
Wilt , Jordan , Kobe , Russel , Lebron , Bird , Jabbar , Saq , West , Jokic , 10 GOAT for me
Murray if you read between the lines: yeap that fella is ridiculous
Joker on his way to becoming the new goat of this game. Wouldn't be surprised if he finished with more than 5 Mvps and around 5 championships and nba finals Mvp.
Even with all that, the thing that strikes me the most is the ability to make others better. Jamal, Gordon, MPJ, KCP and so on own a lot of the career success to Joker. I mean, there's an advanced stat that says that the team without him is on the level of the Washington Wizards. With him on the court it suddenly seems that all the guys become all star. For me that's the best quality of a player, even considering the fact that this guy averages a triple double in his career and elevates even more his game comes playoff time to average 30/14/12.
He done this for the past half decade and the man didn't even reach his 30's yet. If he's able to carry on like this for another 5 to 8 years, he will become the new goat of this game.
Gobert a "future hall of famer" is wild lol
Kinda feel bad for Golbert. Like all his seasons effort is being questioned just because Jokic is phenomenal. As if his award is based solely on how to stop Jokic.