The Nuggets capped a spectacular run through the playoffs and captured the franchise’s first championship in its 47-year NBA history.
Advertisement. The Serbian center registered 10 triple-doubles during the title run, and he handily outplayed a series of formidable interior opponents: Minnesota’s Rudy Gobert and Karl-Anthony Towns; Phoenix’s Deandre Ayton; Los Angeles’s Anthony Davis; and Miami’s Bam Adebayo.
“[Jokic] won his first MVP, and his numbers were better with the second MVP,” Murray said Sunday before Game 5. “His numbers are [even] better now. I think there’s more to come actually. I think we haven’t seen a side of Jokic that we are going to see: just pure dominance, all the way, the whole game. Even more than he has been.”The 28-year-old Jokic joined Duncan, Dirk Nowitzki and Giannis Antetokounmpo as single-team stars who led the organizations that drafted them to championships.
, engage deeply with the media or chase major sponsorship deals delayed his full embrace by television talking heads and casual basketball fans, much like Duncan and Kawhi Leonard before him.. Rather than use the snub as motivation, Jokic appeared annoyed when asked about the voting, saluted Embiid’s stellar season and said any critics of the Philadelphia 76ers center’s selection were “mean.”
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