![]() Whatever his team needed, Jokić was on hand to provide it, varying his output in line with the game’s fluctuations in momentum. If Game 1 of these finals was a passing clinic and Game 2 highlighted his scoring touch, then Game 3 offered a stage for Jokić to demonstrate his mastery of game management. The staggering stats Jokić puts up, game to game, will always be the alpha of his claim to greatness, but it’s his refusal to do the things that basketball “bigs” are usually expected to – muscle up in the paint, wait for the ball to come to him, dunk – that form that claim’s omega, that make him so uniquely charming. Instead of playing “above the rim” like someone of his immensity normally would, he operates below it he plays above and around the heads of his opponents, across their backs, through their legs, under arms raised haplessly in defense. Although he’s close to seven feet tall, his greatest skills are those more typically associated with players many inches his inferior: passing, dribbling, ball handling, court awareness. Jokić is the rare big man who plays against type. The history of the NBA is replete with examples of small men who played against type to impose themselves in the paint: Spud Webb, Muggsy Bogues, Allen Iverson. A claim for historical greatness is convincingly being assembled. ![]() The two-time MVP is clomping through these finals with the vision and improvisational sizzle of Magic, Hakeem the Dream’s size-defying touch and footwork, and Jordan’s on-court omnipresence and invincibility, his sheer weight of numbers and aura of statistical destiny. “I watched Magic because of his passing, and Hakeem because of his post moves, and Jordan because he is Jordan,” Jokic wrote in 2016, a year after joining the Denver Nuggets as a second-round draft pick. Growing up in Serbia in the early years of this century, Jokić would spend hours on YouTube watching his favorite NBA players. ![]() But most impressive was the way in which he accumulated these figures, with a freedom and variety that captured the best of his childhood heroes. Jokić’s numbers – 32 points, 21 rebounds, 10 assists – made him the first player ever to post a 30-20-10 game in the NBA finals. Get all of your NBA live results on AiScore.As Denver tightened their grip on the finals with a coolly commanding Game 3 win in Miami on Wednesday night, a talent that once threatened to go unrewarded with the hard currency of titles has come thrillingly into mint. our basketball scorecards are updated in live real-time to keep you up to date with all the basketball results happening today and allowing you to view past game results for all previously played fixtures for every basketball competitions. The match page there will also be the table with all of the basketball statistics on the latest games of the teams. On AiScore Basketball LiveScore you can watch basketball online by just clicking it, and provides you the online coverage of the top-leagues matches. You'll find here not only live scores, quarter results, final results and lineups, but also number of 2- and 3-point attempts, free throws, shooting percentage, rebounds, turnovers, steals, personal fouls, match history and player statistics. AiScore offers scores service from more than 200 basketball competitions from around the world(like NCAA, ABA League, Baltic league, Euroleague, national basketball leagues). ![]() AiScore Basketball LiveScore provides you with NBA league live scores, results, tables, statistics, fixtures, standings and previous results by quarters, halftime or final result.
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