MINNEAPOLIS — Maybe the most remarkable thing about Nikola Jokic’s second consecutive game-winning shot was how unremarkable it felt.
At least to his teammates.
The Nuggets had gone scoreless over the final 6:43 of regulation. They had turned the ball over 10 times and sent Minnesota to the free-throw line 14 times during their fourth-quarter collapse. A 16-point lead had vanished to force overtime, where they had committed two more turnovers.
Yet when Jokic bailed them out for the second time in three days with an improbable, baseline fadeaway in the face of 7-foot Karl-Anthony Towns, the Nuggets’ postgame locker room carried on as if nothing special had just happened.