MINNEAPOLIS — In addition to his wheeling passes and deft shots, Nikola Jokic added one more wrinkle to his game Monday night.
With three starters out and his team serving the final day of a bizarre six-game stretch of back-to-backs, Jokic was noticeably more active and outspoken against Minnesota.
“Just because, back-to-back, we didn’t have a really good warm-ups, our energy was down,” Jokic said in the wake of their 107-100 win to improve their record to 30-13. “I thought it was maybe just going to wake up the guys, or just to have the voice.