About a week before the Harlem Globetrotters showed up to perform in Denver, Nikola Jokic had the look of a guy trying out for basketball’s traveling circus.
In the middle of a routine break in play during a recent game at the Pepsi Center, the young center for the Nuggets casually tossed the ball in the air and caught it with one finger as the ball continued to spin tightly. With the ball still rotating, Jokic nonchalantly passed the ball with one finger to a referee.
That easy flair made it the answer to this question an easy one: Which Nugget could most seamlessly join the Globetrotters when they played in Denver on Saturday afternoon?