My narrative that “Paul Millsap Ruined the Nuggets” would have a lot more oomph behind it if the Nuggets had lost this game. Then I would unironically be able to say that “Millsap was a me-first cancer, as evidenced by his zero assists” and “Millsap can’t coexist with Nikola Jokic” and “Millsap’s minutes should be…
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Nikola Jokic Triple Double 21 Pts/12 Rebs/11 Asts Full Highlights (5/5/2019)
Nikola Jokic was extremely grateful that the Nuggets’ team plane had seats that were not only large enough to accommodate the size of NBA players, but were also able to be fully reclined. Nikola was currently taking advantage of that feature to its fullest. In addition, he had the air conditioning nozzles turned up to…
Read MoreWill Barton 22 Points/3 Blocks Full Highlights (5/3/2019)
If I was a fan of one of the teams in this game, I literally would not have been able to handle the intensity. Death would’ve been my fate, surely. I barely could handle it as it was; my heart was beating out of my chest for the entire duration of the four overtimes. My…
Read MoreNikola Jokic Triple Double 33 Pts/18 Rebs/14 Asts/65 Minutes Full Highlights (5/3/2019)
According to basketball-reference, only five players in NBA history have played more minutes in a single game than Nikola Jokic did in this one (which was 65, in case the title of this vid was too long and you couldn’t manage to get to the end of it). Everyone should already know about that Supersonics-Bucks…
Read MoreNikola Jokic 37 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (4/29/2019)
I think it’s fair to say that Nikola Jokic has been the best player of the playoffs so far. The so-called “playoffs MVP”, which should absolutely be an award. Maybe you could make an argument for Kawhi Leonard, but recency bias is a real thing, and that dude only scored 35 tonight compared to Jokic’s…
Read MoreNikola Jokic Triple Double 21 Pts/15 Rebs/10 Asts Full Highlights (4/27/2019)
The last time the Nuggets were in the playoffs, George Karl was the coach, Masai Ujiri was the GM, and their best scorer, Ty Lawson, averaged 16 points per game, and their best feature was the incredible lob chemistry between Andre Miller and JaVale McGee. That team lost in the first round to the Warriors…
Read MoreNikola Jokic Career High 43 Points/9 Assists Full Highlights (4/25/2019)
Nikola Jokic slung his bag over his shoulder with a sigh and started the walk from the visitor’s locker room to where the team bus was waiting to take them to the airport. They should have been returning to Denver as heroes; instead, they were going back to their home arena with one more game…
Read MoreTorrey Craig 18 Points Full Highlights (4/20/2019)
My genius new viral hashtag, #TorreyCraigIsWelsh , has not taken off nearly as well as I’d have hoped. As of this writing, there is only one use of it on Twitter (thanks to the Twitter user whose name is, somewhat cryptically, just “matt”). For such a perfectly-formulated hashtag to see such levels of underutilization is…
Read MoreNikola Jokic 29 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (4/20/2019)
Nikola Jokic exited the Whataburger with a bag of fast-food cheeseburgers in his left hand and a large coke in the other hand. In general, fast food didn’t compare to his favorite burger joints in Denver, but it was a suitable substitute. His brain briefly registered a pang of guilt as it occurred to him…
Read MoreMalik Beasley 20 Points Full Highlights (4/18/2019)
Malik Beasley is exactly the kind of scorer that can bring the Nuggets back from their 1-2 series deficit. What I mean there is, if you stop pretending that he’s your sixth-man scorer off the bench and make him the second option behind Nikola Jokic, it’s basically guaranteed that he’ll pop for twenty, maybe twenty-five…
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