Nikola Jokic Makes Feelings Clear on Lu Dort
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Denver Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic is just returning from quite possibly the worst injury of his NBA career. Jokic missed 16 games due to a left knee injury, just narrowly avoiding an ACL tear.
Nikola Jokic popped to his feet and angrily confronted Lu Dort after the Thunder forward tripped him during the Nuggets’ overtime loss Friday night at rival Oklahoma City. The three-time league MVP said afterward it was a “necessary” response to a ...
The teams started moving back up court when Oklahoma City’s Lu Dort put his hip into Nikola Jokic and knocked the Nuggets MVP to the ground with a little cheap shot that caught the big man in the knee.
As Mike Daigeneault admitted, the Denver Nuggets vs the OKC Thunder was chippy from the start. The early part of the game saw Shai Gilgeous-Alexander throwing the ball at Nikola Jokic as the top-two MVP candidates squared up in the Western Conference Finals preview on Friday.