After a rocky start to the 2021-2022 NBA season, Portland Trail Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic is playing, in his eyes, the best basketball of his career. In a recent in-depth piece by The Athletic’s Jason Quick, Quick detailed how the Bosnian Beast has turned his play around and still believes he has a future in Portland, despite trade rumors.
In Quick’s piece, Head Coach Chauncey Billups said Nurkic’s recent superb play — the big man has averaged 17.5 points, 13.0 rebounds and 3.8 assists during the month of January — was caused by a “perfect storm.