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How's business? Boomin

[derek @DerekRuffy]

Not everyone deserves to know the real you. Let them criticize who they think you are.

[Colorado Avalanche @Avalanche]

For our city.

[Antonio @ayyrod_]

Everybody better than Jokic til it’s time to be better than Jokic

[Andy Bailey @AndrewDBailey]

The Nuggets' league-leading offense is scoring 122.0 points per 100 non-garbage time possessions.

Their offensive rating when Nikola Jokić is on the floor with Murray, Braun, Johnson and Gordon? 126.3.

When Jokić plays with 3 of those 4: 128.8
When Jokić plays with 2 of those 4: 132.4
When Jokić plays with 1 of those 4: 121.8
When Jokić plays with 0 of those 4: 115.6

The league-average offensive rating this season is 115.9.

[Kalshi Hoops @KalshiHoops]

Players in NBA History to record 375+ PTS, 190+ REB, and 150+ AST in any 15-game span:

• Nikola Jokic (53 times)

End of list.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Jokic is so crazy that these almost feel like normal stat lines

[NBA @NBA]

Down their top 5 players in MPG (Jokić, Murray, Gordon, Johnson, Braun)...

The @nuggets depth came up HUGE in Philly!

Jalen Pickett: 29 PTS, 7 3PM, 7 AST
Peyton Watson: 24 PTS, 7 REB, 2 BLK
Zeke Nnaji: 21 PTS, 8 REB, 2 STL, 2 BLK
Bruce Brown: 19 PTS, 6 REB
Hunter Tyson: 14 PTS

[Denver Broncos @Broncos]

Award-winning Week 15 performance from Bo Nix.

[Karsen 🐎 @Broncos4six]

Watch @PatSurtainll on this play and ask yourself why it was the first TD he has "allowed" in over a year

[Denver Nuggets @nuggets]

PULLING THIS OFF IN-GAME?!!?

[Rob Perez @WorldWideWob]

In less than one year, Aaron Gordon's three-point shot has gone from "Leave him in the corner and help on Jokic in the post, we'll live with it" to "Do we need to stay home on him now?" to "This dude on one leg is about to beat us" to 7-for-7 in the first half tonight.

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

LEGENDARY: Throwback when the Denver #Broncos and Carolina #Panthers faced off in Super Bowl 50.

Peyton Manning versus Cam Newton.

One hell of a battle — that changed the history of the league forever on just one play.

[Andy Bailey @AndrewDBailey]

Nikola Jokić probably just had the best half-decade of numbers in NBA history.

Since the start of 2020-21, regular and postseason combined, he ranks 2nd in total points, 1st in total rebounds, 2nd in total assists, 1st in total steals and 1st in total raw plus-minus.

Over the same stretch, he's averaged 27.1 points, 12.4 rebounds, 8.9 assists and 1.4 steals in 35.2 minutes, with a 65.6 TS% that's 8.2 points over the league average.

In 2024-25 alone, he averaged a triple-double while leading the NBA in "points added by overall shooting." He led the league in that category in three of the last five seasons (with Giannis Antetokounmpo leading in 2023-24 and Stephen Curry leading in 2020-21).

His marks for box plus/minus in those five seasons rank 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th and 7th all time.

His combined box plus/minus over those five years and 425 games is 12.8. That's 3.3 clear of second-place Giannis' 9.5, and the distance between those two marks is about the same as the distance between 2nd and 9th.

His 13.1 box plus/minus in just the regular season gives him the highest ever for any 364-game span (that's how many he's played in the last five years). The best non-Jokić span of that length is Michael Jordan's 12.2 from 1987 to 1991.

This run has also pushed him all the way up to first place on the all-time leaderboards in box plus/minus, win shares per 48 minutes and player efficiency rating. Jordan and LeBron James make up the rest of the top three in two of those leaderboards, while Jordan and David Robinson round out the top three in the other.

And all these numbers aren't of the empty-calorie variety. During these five years, in the regular and postseason combined, the Denver Nuggets are +8.6 points per 100 possessions with Jokić on the floor and -7.2 when he's off.

We've seen players like LeBron, Oscar Robertson and Russell Westbrook average triple-doubles or near triple-doubles. We've seen players like Curry and Kevin Durant combine scoring volume and scoring efficiency in seemingly impossible fashion. We've never seen a single player check all those boxes in quite the same way Jokić has (especially not over five years).

You've probably seen some of my "blind polls." You've probably been mad about one or two. At this point, I've gotten pretty good at predicting the results. And I can pretty much guarantee that these five years from Jokić would beat any five-year stretch from anyone. Wilt Chamberlain (when you adjust for pace), Jordan, LeBron, Curry, you name it.

You can certainly argue that other players across NBA history have been better basketball players than Jokić, but it'd be hard to craft a convincing argument that anyone else has had better individual numbers during any half-decade run.

[DNVR Nuggets @DNVR_Nuggets]

CHAMPAGNE SHOWERS 🍾🍾

Nikola Jokic gets emotional after a huge horse racing win today, then celebrates with his jockey 🥹

[MR. OBVIOUS @ObviousRises]

This is the American version of the instant Katana slice.

[🌨️ @NotLikeRuss]

Aaron Gordon had the craziest buzzer beater I’ve ever seen in my life

[The Cinéprism @TheCineprism]

True Detective S1

[RG 📷 @RyanGreeneDNVR]

Thanks Mike 🫡

[Nuggets Lead @NuggetsLead]

The Nuggets Championship parade was two years ago, today 🏔️🏆

Here's a thread of the best moments from the day:

[ClutchPoints @ClutchPoints]

Nikola Jokic may not be this year's MVP, but he rewrote the record books this season.

The Nuggets star became not just the 3rd player ever to average a triple-double, but the first non-point guard to average a triple-double, which is amazing in itself.

But that wasn't the Joker's greatest achievement in 2025.

He also became just the 1st player in history to rank in the top 3 in points, rebounds, assists, and steals in the same season (min. 50 games played):

🔥 29.6 PPG (3rd)
🔥 12.7 RPG (3rd)
🔥 10.2 APG (2nd)
🔥 1.8 SPG (2nd)

Even more amazing?

Not only is Joker the 1st to finish top 3 in all 4 categories, but only one player finished in the Top TEN in points, rebounds, and assists. And that was 63 years ago.

1961-62 Oscar Robertson came the closest to Jokic. Not even Russell Westbrook in 4 seasons averaging triple-doubles ever hit the top 10 in all.

'61-62 Oscar Robertson:
🔸30.8 PPG (5th)
🔸12.5 (10th)
🔸11.4 (1st)

So Jokic being top 3 in FOUR stat categories is literally unheard of.

If his name wasn't already up there with the all-time greats, there's certainly no denying him now.