Nikola Jokic Threw A Ball To Suns Owner Mat Ishbia And Hugged Him Before Game 5

TNT Perhaps the weirdest moment of the NBA playoffs so far came in Game 4 of the Western Conference Semifinal series between the Denver Nuggets and the Phoenix Suns. Nikola Jokic wanted to inbound the ball quickly after it went out of bounds and ended up right in the arms of the Suns’ new owner, …

Nikola Jokic Will Be Fined, Not Suspended, For Shoving Suns Owner Mat Ishbia

Getty Image Game 5 between the Suns and Nuggets will, in fact, be played at full strength, as Nikola Jokic will not face a suspension for his altercation with Suns owner Mat Ishbia during Game 4 of Denver’s loss in Phoenix. After running over to grab the ball that fell into Ishbia’s lap, the two …

Nikola Jokic Thought Mat Ishbia Should’ve Been Kicked Out For ‘Influencing The Game’

Getty Image Game 4 between the Suns and Nuggets featured some unbelievable individual performances, as Devin Booker and Kevin Durant each scored 36 points on hyper-efficient shooting to lead Phoenix to a win to even the series as they dueled with Nikola Jokic, who scored 53 points, all night. The shot-making in the game was …

Nikola Jokic Got A Technical For Shoving Suns Owner Mat Ishbia Trying To Get The Ball

tnt The first half of Game 4 between the Suns and Nuggets saw the high level shot-making we expected from the stars of this series from the outset, with Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic both having it going for Denver, while Kevin Durant and Devin Booker stayed hot after a terrific Game 3 for Phoenix. …

Nikola Jokic Is The Latest NBA Player To Get Hit In The Nuts

ESPN For one reason or another, NBA players getting hit in the nuts seems to be at an all-time high during the 2023 playoffs. On Friday night during Game 3 of the Western Conference Semifinal series between the Denver Nuggets and the Phoenix Suns, Nikola Jokic became the latest player to have to deal with …

Joel Embiid Won’t Play Against Nikola Jokic And The Nuggets With A Calf Injury

Getty Image The NBA MVP conversation has morphed into an extremely heated debate this year in some circles, with Nikola Jokic and Giannis Antetokounmpo each vying for their third (and for Jokic, his third in a row), while Joel Embiid has plenty of support to earn his first. As such, every matchup between two of …

Nikola Jokic Didn’t Realize Lauri Markkanen Was Still On Stage When He Drafted Himself To Team LeBron

TNT The NBA All-Star Draft happening just before the game provided some funny moments, as Giannis Antetokounmpo got confused over who was a starter and who was a reserve, trying to draft Ja Morant before he could. However, nothing was funnier than Nikola Jokic just drafting himself to Team LeBron at the end of the …

Nikola Jokic Drafted Himself To Team LeBron To Ensure He Wasn’t The Last Pick In The All-Star Draft

TNT The 2023 NBA All-Star Draft was in-person, just prior to tipoff of the game on the stage in Utah, and it created for some funny moments as the players sat there on the stage waiting for LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo to call their names. In an effort to not have someone sitting there …

Nikola Jokic And Giannis Antetokounmpo Led The 2022 All-NBA First Team, While Joel Embiid Received Second Team Honors

Getty Image For months, a great deal of attention has been devoted to NBA award discourse for the 2021-22 season, headlined by an incredibly interesting MVP race eventually won by Nikola Jokic. On Tuesday, the league announced the last of its major individual honors with the reveal of the 2021-22 All-NBA teams by TNT’s Inside …

Nikola Jokic Got Surprised With His MVP Award While Harness Racing In Serbia

Nuggets Earlier this week, word broke that Nikola Jokic had won his second straight NBA MVP award, edging out Joel Embiid and Giannis Antetokounmpo in the process. After months of arguments and hand-wringing over advanced stats, the eye test, and who should and shouldn’t have a vote, the results bore out what was a pretty …

Draymond Green Told Nikola Jokic ‘Thank You For Making Me Better’ After The Warriors-Nuggets Series

TNT The Golden State Warriors polished off a 4-1 series win over the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday night in San Francisco, coming back from a double-digit deficit in the second half to become the first team in the West to punch their ticket to the second round. The series was much more competitive in the …

The Warriors Survived A Monster Nikola Jokic Performance To Win Game 5 And Advance To The Conference Semis

Getty Image The Golden State Warriors made a big move on Wednesday night, inserting Steph Curry back into the team’s starting lineup for Kevon Looney in Game 5 of their first round series against the Denver Nuggets. The move, unsurprisingly, paid off, and as a result, the Warriors picked up a 102-98 win to secure …