They accidentally forgot to include all the times Jokic schooled him, and accidentally cut off one of the highlights where Wemby stopped him, right before Jokic immediately got the ball back and scored on him.

Not even Hackett or McDaniels could drag us to the depths most of the rest of you bastards have inhabited

Well, when the Broncos meet the Giants in the SB this year, it will be a different story.

Now post all the times Jokic cooked him

Russ was 30th in passer rating last year under Hackett. 2nd this year under Payton.

Hackett should be on the no-fly list.

The opposite of Tim Tebow.

he needs to be a little bit fatter, to be honest

Ultimately the dude went 32/16/9 with 65% ts and people giving him nothing but shit, lol.

For one, the defense had plenty of time to make their substitution: it wasn’t a late offensive substitution, they made their subs immediately after the play was blown dead. The defense had just as much time to sub as the Broncos did.

Also: “Note: The quick-snap rule does not apply after the two-minute warning of either half, or if there is not a substitution by the offense.” Does that mean none of this applies either way?

Nuggets in 6.

I think I’ll leave this up.

That said, if you want to have a deeper conversation about my satirical implication that Lebron and Jokic are motivated by different things, and you think I’m totally wrong about that, we can talk.

I’m imaging a commercial with Jokic’s wife instead:

Natalija: “They’re talking about you again.”

Joker: “Who?”

Natalija: “The Haters.”

Joker: “The what?”

Natalija: “Haters, you know, the people who say you can’t do it again.”

Joker: “Do what again? Is baby OK? Why you call during horse race?”

Natalija: “I just want you to take the high road baby, don’t believe them, don’t let them get to you, those doubters, those hat–”

Joker: “I don’t know who is, but why the fuck you call me during race? I go now.”

In 70+ years of NBA basketball there have been hundreds of playoff teams, thousands and thousands of players, including all the legends.

In addition to blowing away Wilt’s record for most triple-doubles in the playoffs while coming within a few assists of a 30+ point triple double average for an entire NBA playoff run, which including 50+ point games, multiple 20+ rebound games, 9 games with 12+ assists, Jokic became the first player ever - over Wilt, MJ, Lebron, Bill Russell, Tim Duncan, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, Magic, Bird, KD, Kareem, Kobe, Steph, you name - to lead the playoffs in points, rebounds and assists.

No matter the teams, no matter how good (or shitty) the competition, no player in NBA history ever did that, until Jokic just did it.

You’ve got a strange definition of “not historic.”

For one thing, the Suns were favored not only in betting odds, but also by analysts (here are 13 out of 17 ESPN analysts picking the Suns to win the Nuggets series),, so you’re making shit up, but even if you weren’t totally wrong, that logic is hilarious: “Can’t be that good if no one was favored over you.”

No brother, that means you are good. The Lakers and Heat weren’t favored over the Nuggets because Jokic was having one of the greatest postseason runs in NBA history, wafflestomping his way through the playoffs.

Also, he’s a fucking center, lol.

Yeah, who would reference the only time in history a player led the playoffs in points, rebounds and assists, or smashed the record for the most triple doubles ever.

Playing at what level? Preseason level?

There’s only one player in the NBA who is first and it’s Jokic.

And if you are into advanced stats, in addition to leading the league in BPM, Jokic also leads the NBA in WS (win shares) which measures a players direct contribution to wins.

The Nuggets also have a larger differential in net rating when Jokic is on vs. off the court than any other team’s differential with/without any other player in the league.

There’s actually not a lot of stats, advanced or not, that can point to any other player in the NBA being more valuable to their team than Jokic is to the Nuggets.

So the question becomes, how shitty are the Nuggets without Jokic? Well, they certainly had a dogshit record without him, and were (anecdotally) comically bad whenever he was on the bench, but it also turns out they have the worst net rating of any team in the NBA when those teams have any one of their starters off the court.

But if you’d like to submit a team that falls off more without any one particular player on the court, I’m all ears.

The Nuggets had the highest +/- in the NBA with Jokic on the court last year.

The Nuggets were dead last in the NBA in +/- without Jokic on the court last year.

Do what you will with that information.