Our first look of professional basketball came all the way back in 1946 with the BAA.
Whether you want to choose 1946 or 1949, whatever.
You get the point.
On the season, Nikola Jokic is currently averaging 30.2/13.4/10.1 on 56/47% (!!!!)
splits with 2.1 3PM.
At the moment, Jokic is currently top 3 in the NBA in points, rebound, and assists.
How rare is that?
A total of0 playersin the NBA have done that since 1969-70.
For those not great at math, that’s 55 years.
The reason I find this so interesting is of course, the MVP race.
There’s a gap between them and any other candidate you’d like to name.
I get it, he’s won 3 already.
My question is, so what?
Is voter fatigue really what is going to be the deciding factor?
Does it depend on which narrative we now care about?
Just ask Joel Embiid.
Sure, if you’re an OKC fan.
He’s putting up arguably one of if not the best guard seasons in NBA history.
That’s a fact, not opinion.
So why shouldn’t that be the case for Jokic?
Here’s the fun part.
These two teams play each other on a B2B (both games in OKC) on March 9-10th.
But like, do yourself a favor and tune into Nuggets games.
I’m not sure it gets much better than that.
