Tag: Nikola Jokic

I’ve been trying to think of reasons as to why Nikola Jokic is not as popular as Kristaps Porzingis. Market size may be a factor, sure, but that’s not the whole reason. Neither is the fact that Kristaps was the higher pick, or that he is the more striking physical specimen. No, the real reason…

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First it was rookie-year Pau Gasol vibes. Then it was Dirk Nowitzki vibes. Now, the Nuggets commentators allege that Nikola “Jock Itch” Jokic is in fact giving off Elvin Hayes vibes. I don’t know if Elvin Hayes vibes are necessarily of higher quality than Dirk Nowitzki vibes, but I do know that emanating the vibes…

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If Nikola Jokic WASN’T in a rookie class filled to the brim with talented bigmen, we’d be sensing a lot more hype around him. Sadly, he is, and there’s nothing anyone can do to change that, so here we are, languishing in a Nikola-Jokic-hype-less existence. Before you mention the Serbs, yes, I am aware that…

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Forget about the rookie-year Pau Gasol vibes I was receiving from Nikola Jokic. I am not receiving those vibes anymore. He is emanating new vibes. Better vibes. Vibrant-er vibes. Prime Dirk Nowitzki vibes. No, I am not overreacting to the post-up fadeaway jumpers he has hit occasionally this year. I don’t even have a choice…

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Anyone else getting rookie-year Pau Gasol vibes from Nikola Jokic? Please tell me I’m not the only one, because he is emitting, at least to me, some serious rookie-year Pau Gasol vibes. Seriously. Serious vibes are being emitted and I don’t want to be the one everyone thinks is crazy just because they are the…

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Nikola Jokic is slowly making everyone else on the Nuggets irrelevant. After only a few games with Denver, he took away the “Euro That No Nuggets Fan Had Ever Heard of Until He Signed With the Team but Then Turned Out to Be Pretty Good” title from Jusuf Nurkic. Not satisfied with that, he then…

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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,…

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Nikola “Jock Itch” Jokic: is he really a 44% three-point shooter? Well, he is for now, because he’s 4-of-9 on the season, but that’s not the question. Actually, it is the question, but that’s because I worded it badly. The real question: can Jock Itch sustain 40% from behind the arc or is it a…

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Is it just me or is Nikola Jokic looking a little… Porzingis-esque? It’s not just me. I talked to Adam Silver about this, and he was like “Yeah, I heard that Malone, the coach over there, just straight up told Jokic to start shooting threes and fadeaways and stuff, to make him an international sensation…

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Forget about Frank Kaminsky for now. I know it is hard, as a white American male, to not desire highlights of your own kind above all others, but you have to try. Besides, I’ve got the next best thing: highlights of a white Serbian male! Serbia is kind of like America without the crushing worldwide…

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