Each day, as the amount of time I have left to live gets imperceptibly shorter and shorter, I find my appreciation of the little things growing. One of those little things is watching Nikola Jokić play basketball. I love this dude, but more than that I love the way his team plays with him—the way they seem to swirl around him. This season, in the absence of Jamal Murray, it’s been beautiful to watch Jokić work with Will Barton, for example. Other great players impact the game like a hammer impacts a nail, but Jokić is different. He’s like the possibility of a nail being coaxed into position through its own free will.
21–22 NBA Previews: The Denver Nuggets (#3)
21–22 NBA Previews: The Denver Nuggets (#3)
21–22 NBA Previews: The Denver Nuggets (#3)
Each day, as the amount of time I have left to live gets imperceptibly shorter and shorter, I find my appreciation of the little things growing. One of those little things is watching Nikola Jokić play basketball. I love this dude, but more than that I love the way his team plays with him—the way they seem to swirl around him. This season, in the absence of Jamal Murray, it’s been beautiful to watch Jokić work with Will Barton, for example. Other great players impact the game like a hammer impacts a nail, but Jokić is different. He’s like the possibility of a nail being coaxed into position through its own free will.