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Nikola Jokic has never been particularly excited to make basketball history.
When the Denver Nuggets superstar center accepted his first NBA Most Valuable Player Award in 2021, he was asked if he was looking forward to getting the ceremony over with. "To be honest, yes," Jokic told reporters.
The next year, as Nuggets coach Michael Malone emphatically pushed for Jokic to win the league's top individual honor, Jokic was asked what it would mean to win back-to-back MVPs. "I don't know. It doesn't mean anything special. I'm just trying to win basketball games," he told reporters.