Tag: Nikola Jokic

It is not Nikola Jokic’s fault that the Nuggets are down 2-1 in this series. Maybe it was kinda his fault in game one that the Nuggets lost, but remember, he got a triple-double, and as Russell Westbrook has found out, triple-doubles shield you permanently from major criticism. I will say that Jokic could be…

It’s a good thing the Nuggets won this game, because I was having a hard time seeing them winning the series after losing the first two games at home. At the same time, I kinda would’ve liked to see that loss, just to see the implosion of Nuggets fans. Would there be boos? Were there…

Good news: Nikola Jokic entered this, his first playoff game, with no stats and left with a triple-double. Bad news: The Nuggets got upset by the Spurs but it didn’t even feel like an upset because it’s the god-damn Spurs and they’re going to be a good team forever whether we like it or not….

Dear Serbs: Please accept my apologies for not making this video in a more prompt fashion. I would have loved to provide the people of Serbia with a Nikola Jokic highlight video as soon as the game ended, but the night of April 10 was such a bonanza of scrubs going off that I couldn’t…

I will often choose video thumbnails for their entertainment value. How many extra views do I get from my hilarious close-ups of NBA players making dopey faces? It’s hard to say, but I’d say it’s in the tens per day channel-wide. That alone makes the extra effort worth it. But rarely do I choose a…

Nikola Jokic is not known for his shot-blocking abilities. He is not a rim-protector by any stretch of the imagination. No sane person would expect somebody with his physical profile (poor vertical jump, decent but not great wingspan, a plodder) to record a lot of blocks. But, somehow, he recorded three of them in this…

It’s a good thing that Nikola Jokic’s ejection at the hands of Tony Brothers didn’t result in a Nuggets loss, or Brothers might have any and all US-based members of the Serbian Mafia after him. I actually don’t have any evidence that the Serbian Mafia really exists, but that’s exactly what I’d expect when it…

The making of this video brings with it some interesting philosophical quandaries. Among those quandaries is the following question: how sick do a player’s statistical averages have to be where a “below-average” game for them still qualifies for a highlight video? I ask this because, by at least some measures, this game from Jokic was…