Michael Porter Jr. says he watched Jokic get outworked by Mason Plumlee and wobble through training camp looking like he didn’t care and thought there was no way he was that good
“I barely knew the Denver Nuggets were an NBA team. So I get drafted there and they’re telling me, like, they got this big dude who’s really good. But you know how it is in college, we were paying more attention to college.”
“So I didn’t really know how good Joker was, but people around the organization kept telling me how good he was. We get out to training camp, and Mason’s a pretty athletic big, so he was just catching lobs, dunking, running the floor.”
“And Joker’s just wobbling around like not really caring, nonchalant, and he’s not really killing in training camp. But they’re like, no, just wait till you see when he actually wants to. He could score forty a game if he wants to. I was like, man, there’s no way.”
“And then we get to the season and he’s going crazy. One game he’ll have twenty rebounds, next game he’ll have fifteen assists, next game he’ll have thirty, the next game after that he’ll have all those combined. And I’m like, bro, what’s going on.”
Nikola Jokić leads Serbia to the win against France in the first of two FIBA World Cup International Friendly matchups!
🇷🇸 20 PTS
🇷🇸 9 REB
🇷🇸 8 AST
(via @FIBAWC)
Nikola Jokić has recorded a triple-double in 24.2% of his games (regular season and playoffs). That is the highest career percentage in @NBA history.
The only player in league history with a higher rate at any point in his career was Oscar Robertson (at any point during his first nine seasons in the NBA).
Nikola Jokic is leading the ENTIRE NBA this decade in:
Points - 14,640
Rebounds - 6,680
Assists - 4,880
Steals - 775
He is the ONLY player in NBA history to lead a decade in four major categories (playoffs include).
LEGEND. 🤯
Peja Stojakovic in 2004:
More PTS than
— Kobe
— T-Mac
— Pierce
— Dirk
— Melo
— Shaq
More REB than
— Nene
— Amar'e
— Divac
— Rasheed
— Mutombo
— LeBron
More 3PM than
— Ray
— Baron
— Crawford
— T-Mac
— Reggie
— Chauncey
and more MVP votes than Kobe, Shaq, LeBron and Dirk
Darko Rajaković on the Yugoslav national team of the late 1980s and early 1990s
“The way we played—we were the Golden State Warriors before the Golden State Warriors.”
(via Tanjug)