Nikola Jokic started to address the topic percolating around the Nuggets’ locker room even before the question was done.
He wasn’t interested in discussing his budding MVP case.
“That’s individual thing,” he said. “It happens, it happens. I cannot affect that.”
Even after a night that saw him abuse Dallas’ interior defense for 32 points on 25 shots, haul in 16 rebounds and lead the Nuggets to their fourth consecutive win, Jokic could not have cared less about examining his hierarchy among the NBA’s best players a little more than a third of the way through the season.