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Grading The Week: John Elway, Joe Sakic put Denver on sports map. Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic is threatening to pass them both

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Bless you, Nikola Jokic, for uniting and thrilling Denver sports fans. And dang you for dividing us.

It’s been a good week at Ball Arena, so the kids over at the Grading The Week cubicles want to start with the good news.

First, on three fronts, there’s no debate. After putting up the first ever 30-20-20 stat line in NBA history, the Joker keeps finding new ways to remind us that he’s the best player in any sport along the Front Range right now — with apologies to Nathan MacKinnon and Pat Surtain II.