When Aaron Gordon heard the question, his eyes nearly rolled out of their sockets.
Asked whether he appreciated watching Nikola Jokic go to work against Brook Lopez, the potential Defensive Player of the Year, in Saturday’s 129-106 romp over the Bucks, Gordon stared knowingly up from his locker room stall.
His long side-eye forecast the answer that followed.
“Can’t nobody stop Joker, man,” Gordon said. “I don’t care, Defensive Player of the Year. It doesn’t matter. And he was getting fouled. If you’re not fouling him, you’re not stopping him. And he was fouling him, and he was still getting buckets.