As the NBA playoffs roll on, the 2023-24 NBA MVP will be announced Wednesday. This season's finalists are Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic, Dallas Mavericks guard Luka Doncic, and Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. After Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid won the ...
Nikola Jokic joins Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Russell, Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, LeBron James, Moses Malone, Larry Bird, and Magic Johnson after winning his third NBA MVP award. Credit Zuma Press – Scanpix Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic has done it again. NBAofficially announcedthe ...
averaging more than 30 PPG while having close to 12 rebounds per contest too. Yet, unless the Bucks can get back to being contenders, the Greek Freak’s chances of winning MVP are very slim.
After opening Monday night’s Game 5 of the NBA Finals missing an abysmal 20 of their first 22 3-point attempts, the Nuggets came up with championship-winning plays in the final minutes. From Jokic’s basket inside with 2:24 left to Bruce Brown’s putback with 1:31 to go, to Kenta...
s starting to find its groove late in the season. After starting the year 18–18, Denver has gone 22–8, including winning 12 of its last 14 games. And it’s all been powered by the most unassuming superstar in the world, one who receives far more attention on the court than off ...
Once a chubby kid in Sombor, Jokic has an MVP body fit for lounging by the water after toppling his very first sugary and carbonated opponent. -- Youngmisuk How Game 82 fueled championship No. 1 Ninety minutes before Game 4 of the 2023 Finals, Malone took a walk down memory lane. ...
This episode of The Chick N’ Nuggets is filled with Jena and Reilly’s usually antics. With the Nuggets on a three game winning streak after losing Jamal Murray to injury, Nuggets fans have been on another roller coaster of emotion and this time the hosts of this podcast were on a HiGH...
Hakeem Olajuwon had retired seven years earlier, after winning two titles and an MVP award with the Rockets. Though a dominant defensive force, he was perhaps best known for his graceful post moves, a series of spins, feints and fadeaways that caught defenders wrong-footed, leaving them tryin...
Jokić, who turns 30 in February, was named MVP last season after averaging 26.4 ppg, 12.4 rpg and 9.0 apg and has now won three of the last four MVP awards. Perhaps it was a bit of Joker fatigue or not wanting him to become the fourth player ever to win three consecutive MVPs (...
Mark J. RebilasUSA TODAY Sports via Reuters Con What Nikola Jokic is doing in the NBA goes way beyond the extraordinary.The Serbian,after winning his first ring last season, is well on his way to achieving histhird MVP- putting himself in the same company as some the game’s legendary pl...