284-pound Nikola Jokić. It's even more interesting that these smaller defenders can sometimes apparently hack and push Jokić as they please without fouling a very large man who does most of his ...

1954. That is not a typo. In a game featuring the top two MVP candidates — Nikola Jokić and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander — offense was somehow at a premium. The Nuggets and Thunder would find ...

Nikola Jokić has one of the most iconic nicknames in the NBA in "Joker," but the origin of that nickname wasn't exactly clear.

Nikola Jokić remains one of the game's most dominant forces, but the lack of depth on the Nuggets roster remains an issue and appears at this point to be an untenable situation w ...

Check out the most recent updates here. The 2025 NBA Most Valuable Player race will come down, once again, to Nikola Jokić and a historically dominant scorer. We saw this same story with Jokić ...

David Adelman didn't give Nikola Jokić or Jamal Murray a breather with the Thunder on the ropes. He should regret that.

The NBA season takes a lot out of him. Every year, we have either it’s a European championship, or a World Championship, or ...

The Athletic has live coverage of Heat vs. Bulls and Mavericks vs. Kings in the 2025 NBA Play-In Tournament Nikola Jokić could not have known such a small request would change a career.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has been voted the 2024-25 NBA MVP, according to ESPN, and obviously, that means Nikola Jokić was not. Whether Jokić or Gilgeous-Alexander was the proper choice was a ...

For the second straight season, Nikola Jokić's eternally resilient Denver Nuggets took a Western Conference heavyweight to ...

Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokić is not one for self-promotion. After back-to-back games against the Oklahoma City Thunder, who are led by fellow Most Valuable Player candidate Shai Gilgeous ...

The Denver Nuggets came the closest of any team in the Western Conference to knocking off the Oklahoma City Thunder. To Nikola Jokić, it didn't matter. 'I mean ...