The name’s Jokic. Nikola Jokic.
He might have blown his cover last week. Jokic moonlights as an average defender, but he clearly has something going for him at his self-described weaker end of the floor: either revolutionary basketball intellect or James Bond-ian surveillance skills.
In an amusing locker room exchange last Friday, Timberwolves stars Anthony Edwards and Rudy Gobert shared their disbelief that Jokic had correctly identified and demolished a play that Minnesota was about to run. Gobert was in the middle of his postgame interview scrum when Edwards interrupted to bring up the sequence.