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How Nikola Jokic Improves His Team: A Unique NBA Impact
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5/8/2025
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00:00
So I was talking about the Joker, and I said that he doesn't even surprise me
00:07
in the least that he puts up these numbers every night.
00:10
I already said he's the best player in the world.
00:12
He is better than Shea Gilgis.
00:14
I said, and I think Shea is incredible.
00:16
I'm a fan.
00:17
I think I'm a fan of both.
00:19
But I said that one guy is really the show, and he's kind of ball hoggy to me,
00:25
just constantly shooting and going to the tent.
00:28
I got no problem with that.
00:29
But this other guy, Joker, the way he makes everybody around him better than they ever should be.
00:35
Christian Brown is better than he ever should be.
00:38
I think he makes every guy on that team better than they ever should be,
00:42
including Porter, including Jamal, including the coach, including the assistants.
00:49
And it's like he's not even effing trying.
00:52
Yeah, no, you're 100% correct.
00:55
And so you and I are on the same page.
00:57
Because you can go back for the guys that played he left and got paid.
01:03
I mean, we can go Gary Harris, KCP, Bruce Brown.
01:07
Hell, you can even throw Michael Malone in there, you know.
01:10
And he makes – and now Westbrook.
01:13
Because Westbrook has an option to sign with Denver again next year.
01:17
But he's had such a great year that he's been someplace else.
01:22
And why did he have such a great year?
01:24
It's because Jokic makes everybody better.
01:27
So, yeah, dude, that guy, he's an alien.
01:31
I don't think he's a human being.
01:33
He's like – this is like an old radio thing, Scott.
01:36
This is what I always say, is that like a producer, like Brian, right?
01:41
Right now, he doesn't care what's going on on the show.
01:44
All he's worried about is what's next.
01:47
What do I do next for the Scott Farrell show and on the bench?
01:50
What am I doing next?
01:52
So Joker plays basketball that way.
01:54
He doesn't – he's in the moment, but he's also thinking about how do I do this?
02:01
What's the play next going to be?
02:03
His IQ level is something I have never seen before,
02:07
something that legends like Larry Bird and Irvin Magic Johnson
02:11
and Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley have all talked about.
02:16
He's just a – he's just a different cat, man.
02:18
And I've run out of ways to describe him.
02:21
I will say this.
02:22
For us Nuggets heads, we're kind of getting spoiled, right?
02:27
Because as we're handicapping games, we're sitting there going,
02:29
okay, Joker's going to go do his thing.
02:32
We just dismiss that.
02:33
We just assume he's going to go out there and do what he does every single night.
02:38
Yeah.
02:39
And he's just – he's something special, man.
02:43
What did – when, like, the whole thing went down with Malone,
02:47
did anybody, like, ever at any point,
02:51
did you or anybody think that it was going to implode?
02:53
I didn't – you know, my first thought, and this is probably because I'm closer
03:01
to the team, my first thought, Scott, was it's about time.
03:03
I thought that should have happened before that.
03:07
And, you know, the Kroenke family came out and said that too.
03:10
You know, I think the words they used were, you know, we were going to make the move,
03:15
but we go on this winning streak against below 500 teams.
03:18
We masked our problems with some – and then David Adelman, credit to him,
03:24
he just stepped in, and I think the biggest thing he did was he gave people
03:27
their voices back, and he encouraged chatter.
03:30
And you saw Jokic on the bench last night.
03:33
So he encouraged the guys to get engaged again and to hold people accountable,
03:39
and it's been refreshing.
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