The ethnic tension in the Nuggets’ locker room just keeps building. Jusuf Nurkic was the people’s champ last season with Denver, what with his antagonistic behavior and goofy personality. The next bruising Euro center, appearing out of nowhere to be a force already in his rookie year.
Now I, along with the rest of America, have basically forgotten he exists. Nikola Jokic has taken his place, and replaced the taunting with pinpoint passing, replaced the technical fouls with savvy post moves. Another Euro rookie who nobody expected to do anything, succeeding on the biggest stage. There is no way that Jusuf is happy with the situation as it stands today.
There is only one way to settle the dispute: drunken street racing along the flattest and longest stretch of Colorado road you can find! No better way to say “I am the best Euro center on this team” than by driving faster than them in a motor vehicle. That’s how the Nuggets used to settle arguments back when Timofey Mozgov was around, I’m pretty sure.