throwing your entire team under the bus except for one guy is bad enough, but throwing your entire team under the bus when you and that one guy shot 8-29 in an elimination game is just shameless lol
throwing your entire team under the bus except for one guy is bad enough, but throwing your entire team under the bus when you and that one guy shot 8-29 in an elimination game is just shameless lol
I’m sure you’ve heard all the stories of Nikola Jokic — the unwitting superstar.
When Aaron Gordon arrived at his very first @nuggets practice, Jokic moved his shooting routine to a side hoop so Gordon could shoot on the main basket.
When people ask Jokic about his multiple MVP awards, he rolls his eyes and changes the subject.
When Jokic is pressed about his diminished role in the NBA All Star game, he jokes about how he’s the greatest in-bounder in All Star history.
But I noticed another side to Jokic recently.
I saw the quiet, erudite leader who needs not say a word to play the alpha dog in the Nuggets locker room.
Rookie Christian Braun held court in the middle of a media scrum one day when Jokic waited off to the side for his duties in front of the cameras.
Braun, ever-loquacious that particular day, started going into detail about how the Nuggets planned to defend a particular player.
Joker, coy but diplomatic, noticed the conversation headed in a direction that could reveal coaching strategy, so he did what any great leader would do: he stepped in and told Braun his media session was over.
“Very good my brother. That’s the last question. Goodbye.”
Braun didn’t bat an eye. Heeding Jokic’s instructions, the rookie stood up and mid-sentence excused himself from the media scrum.
Jokic thanked his teammate, gave him a friendly pat on the back, and Sombor Shuffled his way into the media swarm.
Thus began five minutes of vague Jokerisms and witty repartee.
Nikola Jokic never glosses himself.
He never criticizes a coach or a teammate.
He never demeans an opponent.
And by God, with English as a second language, he never lets a teammate divulge a game plan.
He’s an egoless kingpin. And he will snatch your soul on a basketball court.
𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: New evidence now show that former #Bills Punter Matt Araiza was *NOT* present at the house when a woman alleged that he raped her, per @DanWetzel
Evidence instead show that the accuser was having consensual sex with several other men that night.
Araiza being falsely accused of gang rape caused him to lose his job.
The woman that accused Araiza shouldn't go unpunished for ruining his life. Hopefully he gets another shot in the NFL and gets his life back on track.
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Joe Burrow is more accomplished than Josh Allen.
Lamar Jackson is more accomplished than Joe Burrow.
Discounting a unanimous MVP is ludicrous and I will not have it.
Also Mahomes is lapping his peers.