A little more than a week ago, following Nikola Jokic’s triple-double against Phoenix, all Denver’s franchise center could do was laugh after the Pepsi Center crowd serenaded him with MVP chants.
It’s not that he wasn’t appreciative, it’s that Jokic doesn’t like the attention. If it was up to him, Jokic would speak to the media once a week and be done with the chore. On Sunday, both to clarify and crack a joke, he made sure that the same rudimentary questions posed to him by reporters wouldn’t be asked to him on Monday as the Nuggets prepared for New Orleans.