Curated By: Siddarth Sriram
Last Updated: February 24, 2024, 12:08 IST
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Nikola Jokic in motion towards the Portland Trailblazers (Credit: AP)
Jokic grew to become the one recorded participant in NBA historical past to place up a scoreline of 25-15-10 or higher on a minimum of 70% from the sector.
Nikola Jokic had 29 factors, 15 rebounds and 14 assists for his 17th triple-double of the season, Michael Porter scored 34 factors and had 12 rebounds and the Denver Nuggets defeated the Portland Trail Blazers 127-112 on Friday evening.
The solely different recorded cases in NBA historical past with this line or higher had been by Magic Johnson in 1981, Draymond Green in 2016, and Luka Doncic in 2023. While Jokic joins these three gamers, he’s the one recorded participant in NBA historical past to place up this line or higher on a minimum of 70% from the sector.
Jokic additionally performed simply 35 minutes on this recreation, which is way fewer than Johnson’s 47 minutes, Doncic’s 46 minutes, and Green’s 44 minutes.
Nikola had a wonderful first half and put up 13 factors, 11 rebounds, eight assists and one steal whereas capturing 5/7 from the sector and 1/2 from the three-level vary in 20 minutes of enjoying time.
With his three-pointer, the 2-time MVP additionally moved forward of Hall of Famer Larry Bird and Chris Duhon and tied Landry Shamet for 301st on the NBA’s all-time three-pointers checklist.
All of Jokic’s greatness follows yet one more evening beforehand the place he scripted extra historical past upon ending with 21 factors, 19 rebounds and 15 assists within the Denver Nuggets’ 130-110 win over the Washington Wizards on Thursday evening.
With his scoreline, Jokic grew to become solely the third participant to attain a triple-double towards each group he has performed towards.
LeBron James and Russell Westbrook are the opposite gamers with a triple-double towards each opponent.
In immediately’s recreation for Denver although, Collin Gillespie made all 4 of his 3-level makes an attempt off the bench for the Nuggets and completed with 18 factors.
Jerami Grant scored 25 factors for the Trail Blazers. Deandre Ayton added 22 factors and Anfernee Simons had 21.
Portland led by 5 factors within the opening minutes, however Denver managed it a lot of the method because of a large capturing disparity. The Nuggets shot 57.3% from the sector to the Blazers’ 44.3% and outrebounded Portland 43-31.
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