Nikola Jokic snipes Kendrick Perkins amid ‘stat-padding’ slander
Nikola Jokic is a present that simply retains giving for Michael Malone and the Denver Nuggets. He unwrapped one more current for the Nuggets Tuesday evening when he led his group to a 133-112 win on the highway towards the Houston Rockets by placing collectively a triple-double stat line.
Nikola Jokic is having so unimaginable a season that Nuggets followers could be beginning to take him without any consideration. For Nuggets head coach Michael Malone, that’s one of many final issues he’d need himself to really feel.
“I feel all of us in Denver, I challenge myself to do this, to by no means take it [Jokic’s brilliance ] without any consideration,” Malone stated to reporters through the postgame press convention.
“He’s a novel one who doesn’t need any of the eye or credit score,” Malone added. “He simply needs to go about his enterprise and assist this group win its first championship.”
Nikola Jokic went about his enterprise versus the Rockets, racking up 14 factors on 7-for-11 capturing from the sphere with 11 rebounds and 10 assists in simply 28 minutes of labor. That was additionally his a hundredth profession triple-double.
Whereas there are others who’d say that Jokic’s numbers are a product of stat-padding, there are guys like Malone who know higher than to not recognize the on-court accomplishments of the Serbian.
On the season, Nikola Jokic is averaging 24.6 factors, 11.7 rebounds, and 10.0 assists per sport whereas capturing 63.3 p.c from the sphere and 39.8 p.c from behind the arc.
Jokic and the Nuggets will take a relaxation for 2 days earlier than resuming work on Friday versus the Memphis Grizzlies at house.
