Zach Lowe, an American journalist, defended the Serbian center and came into conflict with two former NBA champions Kendrick Perkins and Richard Jefferson.
Namely, Nikola Jokic had a great evening again, but that was not enough for Denver to win.
This season, the current NBA MVP has perhaps better numbers than last season, but he is nowhere to be found in talks about the best basketball players in the league.
Perkins and Jefferson believe that this year there will be a race for the most valuable player in the league between Steph Curry and Kevin Durant.
This annoyed the famous journalist Zach Lowe:
“It’s more than stupid to talk about this as a race for two. Jokic has 26.5 points per game, 14 rebounds and 7 assists. He shoots 58 percent and 66 percent for two. Choose any advanced statistics, and per each of them is the best in the NBA League,” said Lowe.
He then presented additional statistics in favor of Jokic.
“With him on the field, the Nuggets are at +14 points per 100 ball possessions, and with him on the bench, they are at -16. With Nikola on the field, the Nuggets are practically the best team ever, and when he is off the field, they are the worst “, believes the ESPN journalist.
In the end, he pointed out that the only reason why Jokic was not in the talks about the MVP award was that the Nuggets were decimated, and consequently bad.
