Since the calendar turned to 2019, Portland Trail Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic has been tearing through the NBA. 17.2 ppg with 11.2 rebounds and 2.4 blocks besides have pushed the Bosnian Beast to the fringes of NBA All-Star discussion. Jackson Frank of Fansided profiled the phenomenon today, leaving Nurkic looking even shinier than the stats indicate.
Frank quotes New York Knicks Head Coach David Fizdale singing Nurkic’s praises:
“He’s huge. He is a mountain man and you can’t move him,” Knicks head coach David Fizdale said.