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DENVER— The ticker on the scoreboard counted quickly to 5,280 in delivering what seemed like the dozenth ominous warning to the visitors regarding elevation at Ball Arena. Yet the air of desperation hung stickier inside the jam-packed house of 19,537 than the PA announcer’s repeated words of “5,280 feet.” That’s when two-time Kia MVP Nikola Jokic stepped up to embody the grit Denver needed down the stretch to capture the franchise’s first championship by way of “We succeeded in our jobs, and we won the whole thing,” Jokic said. “It’s an amazing feeling. It’s a good feeling when you know you did something that nobody believes, and it’s just us. It’s just the organization, [the] Denver Nuggets believing in us, every player believing in each other.” Finals MVP Nikola Jokic closes out Miami with 28 points, 16 rebounds and 4 assists to help the Nuggets win the franchise's 1st NBA title. Jokic carried the Nuggets during the tensest moments of an outright rock fight, pouring in 10 points in the fourth quarter on 5-of-6 shooting, finishing with a game-high 28 points and 16 boards to The first player in NBA history to lead the entire postseason in total points (600), total rebounds (269) and total assists (186), Jokic also becomes just the 11th player to take home multiple MVPs and an NBA title. The other names in that group? Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Moses Malone, Stephen Curry, Tim Duncan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Bob Pettit...

Caesars Sportsbook has released odds for the Finals MVP award ahead of Game 5 of the Finals, and at this point, they are skewed so heavily in Jokic's favor that they aren't even worth betting. Player Odds Nikola Jokic -6000 +3000 +3000 +3500 +15000 +25000 +25000 +25000 +25000 +25000 +25000 +30000 +35000 +50000 +50000 +50000 Through four games, Jokic is averaging 30.8 points, 13.5 rebounds and eight assists per game against the Jamal Murray is the only other Nugget with even a slim chance. He's hit double-digit assists in each of the four Finals games, but his scoring average of 23.3 points per game leaves a bit to be desired with Jokic topping 30. Jimmy Butler leads the Heat, but he, too has had an underwhelming series. Bam Adebayo has been better in the series, defending Jokic and scoring at least 20 points in all four games, but Vegas is pricing in the fact that Miami will need a superheroic effort from Butler if it is going to complete the comeback. Ultimately, the odds are this skewed for a reason. Voters understand how much of Denver's success comes down to Jokic, and the Nuggets are one win away from the championship. There's just no reason to believe the Nuggets will lose this series, and if they win it, he has clearly been their best player. Expect him to take home the Bill Russell trophy on Monday.

DENVER, CO – JUNE 12: Nikola Jokic (15) of the Denver Nuggets displays the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award as the star holds his daughter, Ognjena, after the fourth quarter of the Nuggets’ 94-89 NBA Finals clinching win over the Miami Heat at Ball Arena in Denver on Monday, June 12, 2023. (Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post) Nikola Jokic did something nice. After leading the Denver Nuggets to their first championship in franchise history, the Jokic is now a winner of two NBA MVPs, a Finals MVP and a Western Conference Finals MVP to supplement the Larry O’Brien Trophy he and his teammates hoisted Monday night at Ball Arena. During the course of the five-game series, the Nuggets hung up posters in their locker room with a variety of motivational quotes, including Jokic’s own go-to phrase about the pursuit of a championship: “We have a chance to do something nice.” Jokic averaged 30.2 points, 14.0 rebounds and 7.2 assists during the Finals while registering his ninth and 10th triple-doubles of the playoffs. He had already passed Wilt Chamberlain’s record for triple-doubles in a single postseason by Game 3, when he became the first player ever to amass a 30-point, 20-rebound, 10-assist game in the NBA Finals. “The job is done,” Jokic said after winning the title. “We can go home now.” During the 2023 NBA playoffs, the Joker led all players in the important base-level statistics — points, rebounds, assists, field goals made — as well as most advanced metrics. He was...

The elusive Finals MVP award is finally in the possession of the Warriors' Stephen Curry after scoring 34 points in a closeout Game 6. • Complete coverage: 2022 NBA Finals BOSTON – Stephen Curry spoke matter-of-factly “There’s been a lot of accomplishments in my career and that one’s not on the list,” Curry said when discussing his newly awarded Eight days later, historians can now jot down that one on Curry’s resume, too, along with a fourth title on the strength of the 34-year-old scoring a team-high 34 points Thursday in Golden State’s Golden State coach Steve Kerr called Curry’s latest accolade “his crowning achievement in what’s already been an incredible career. The whole Finals MVP thing, it’s like, are we really [doing this]? I guess his career has been so impeccable, and that’s the only thing we can actually find. So, it’s great to check that box for him. But it’s been really hard for me to think that’s actually been held against him.” No longer. That’s over. Watch as Stephen Curry receives the Bill Russell NBA Finals MVP award in the 2022 NBA Finals. With a salty home crowd lingering at TD Garden and booing in the background, the Warriors giddily squeezed onto a black podium on the court, as NBA Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum started the process of handing off the Larry O’Brien NBA Championship Trophy. Minutes later, the time arrived for Curry to receive his latest hardware. Interestingly, the booing subsided quickly into sc...

SportsPulse, USA TODAY DENVER ― Nikola Jokic claimed he didn’t care about winning a third consecutive regular-season All throughout the playoffs when he posted a statistical line in the box score that had never been accomplished in NBA history ― such as the first 30-point, 20-rebound triple-double in the Finals ― Jokic downplayed it. "It’s just a stat," he said. "I don’t care." The Dismissing individual stats in favor of team success, Jokic said, "My focus has never been those kinds of records or whatever the media are putting on me. I'm just trying to win a game and just play every game. Go step-by-step and play every game to win a game, as simple as that." He didn’t win the award he didn’t care about, but earned the accomplishment he wanted. Despite his monotone pleas that he is just a one player, he is much more than that. He is among the top-3 players in the league, and for his work against the Heat, Jokic earned Finals MVP. In five games against the Heat, Jokic averaged 30.2 points, 14 rebounds and 7.2 assists. He finished the series with 28 points, 16 rebounds and four assists in Game 5. "The job is done, we can go home now," Jokic told ESPN after the Nuggets' Game 5 win. Nikola Jokic displays all-around game in NBA Finals The Heat had minimal counters to Jokic’s gifted skillset. He beat Miami with his scoring, rebounding, passing and defense. ∎ He had 27 points, 14 assists and 10 rebounds in Game 1; 32 points, 21 rebounds, 10 assists and two blocks in Game 3; and 23...

DENVER— The ticker on the scoreboard counted quickly to 5,280 in delivering what seemed like the dozenth ominous warning to the visitors regarding elevation at Ball Arena. Yet the air of desperation hung stickier inside the jam-packed house of 19,537 than the PA announcer’s repeated words of “5,280 feet.” That’s when two-time Kia MVP Nikola Jokic stepped up to embody the grit Denver needed down the stretch to capture the franchise’s first championship by way of “We succeeded in our jobs, and we won the whole thing,” Jokic said. “It’s an amazing feeling. It’s a good feeling when you know you did something that nobody believes, and it’s just us. It’s just the organization, [the] Denver Nuggets believing in us, every player believing in each other.” Finals MVP Nikola Jokic closes out Miami with 28 points, 16 rebounds and 4 assists to help the Nuggets win the franchise's 1st NBA title. Jokic carried the Nuggets during the tensest moments of an outright rock fight, pouring in 10 points in the fourth quarter on 5-of-6 shooting, finishing with a game-high 28 points and 16 boards to The first player in NBA history to lead the entire postseason in total points (600), total rebounds (269) and total assists (186), Jokic also becomes just the 11th player to take home multiple MVPs and an NBA title. The other names in that group? Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Moses Malone, Stephen Curry, Tim Duncan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Bob Pettit...

DENVER, CO – JUNE 12: Nikola Jokic (15) of the Denver Nuggets displays the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award as the star holds his daughter, Ognjena, after the fourth quarter of the Nuggets’ 94-89 NBA Finals clinching win over the Miami Heat at Ball Arena in Denver on Monday, June 12, 2023. (Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post) Nikola Jokic did something nice. After leading the Denver Nuggets to their first championship in franchise history, the Jokic is now a winner of two NBA MVPs, a Finals MVP and a Western Conference Finals MVP to supplement the Larry O’Brien Trophy he and his teammates hoisted Monday night at Ball Arena. During the course of the five-game series, the Nuggets hung up posters in their locker room with a variety of motivational quotes, including Jokic’s own go-to phrase about the pursuit of a championship: “We have a chance to do something nice.” Jokic averaged 30.2 points, 14.0 rebounds and 7.2 assists during the Finals while registering his ninth and 10th triple-doubles of the playoffs. He had already passed Wilt Chamberlain’s record for triple-doubles in a single postseason by Game 3, when he became the first player ever to amass a 30-point, 20-rebound, 10-assist game in the NBA Finals. “The job is done,” Jokic said after winning the title. “We can go home now.” During the 2023 NBA playoffs, the Joker led all players in the important base-level statistics — points, rebounds, assists, field goals made — as well as most advanced metrics. He was...

SportsPulse, USA TODAY DENVER ― Nikola Jokic claimed he didn’t care about winning a third consecutive regular-season All throughout the playoffs when he posted a statistical line in the box score that had never been accomplished in NBA history ― such as the first 30-point, 20-rebound triple-double in the Finals ― Jokic downplayed it. "It’s just a stat," he said. "I don’t care." The Dismissing individual stats in favor of team success, Jokic said, "My focus has never been those kinds of records or whatever the media are putting on me. I'm just trying to win a game and just play every game. Go step-by-step and play every game to win a game, as simple as that." He didn’t win the award he didn’t care about, but earned the accomplishment he wanted. Despite his monotone pleas that he is just a one player, he is much more than that. He is among the top-3 players in the league, and for his work against the Heat, Jokic earned Finals MVP. In five games against the Heat, Jokic averaged 30.2 points, 14 rebounds and 7.2 assists. He finished the series with 28 points, 16 rebounds and four assists in Game 5. "The job is done, we can go home now," Jokic told ESPN after the Nuggets' Game 5 win. Nikola Jokic displays all-around game in NBA Finals The Heat had minimal counters to Jokic’s gifted skillset. He beat Miami with his scoring, rebounding, passing and defense. ∎ He had 27 points, 14 assists and 10 rebounds in Game 1; 32 points, 21 rebounds, 10 assists and two blocks in Game 3; and 23...

The elusive Finals MVP award is finally in the possession of the Warriors' Stephen Curry after scoring 34 points in a closeout Game 6. • Complete coverage: 2022 NBA Finals BOSTON – Stephen Curry spoke matter-of-factly “There’s been a lot of accomplishments in my career and that one’s not on the list,” Curry said when discussing his newly awarded Eight days later, historians can now jot down that one on Curry’s resume, too, along with a fourth title on the strength of the 34-year-old scoring a team-high 34 points Thursday in Golden State’s Golden State coach Steve Kerr called Curry’s latest accolade “his crowning achievement in what’s already been an incredible career. The whole Finals MVP thing, it’s like, are we really [doing this]? I guess his career has been so impeccable, and that’s the only thing we can actually find. So, it’s great to check that box for him. But it’s been really hard for me to think that’s actually been held against him.” No longer. That’s over. Watch as Stephen Curry receives the Bill Russell NBA Finals MVP award in the 2022 NBA Finals. With a salty home crowd lingering at TD Garden and booing in the background, the Warriors giddily squeezed onto a black podium on the court, as NBA Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum started the process of handing off the Larry O’Brien NBA Championship Trophy. Minutes later, the time arrived for Curry to receive his latest hardware. Interestingly, the booing subsided quickly into sc...

Caesars Sportsbook has released odds for the Finals MVP award ahead of Game 5 of the Finals, and at this point, they are skewed so heavily in Jokic's favor that they aren't even worth betting. Player Odds Nikola Jokic -6000 +3000 +3000 +3500 +15000 +25000 +25000 +25000 +25000 +25000 +25000 +30000 +35000 +50000 +50000 +50000 Through four games, Jokic is averaging 30.8 points, 13.5 rebounds and eight assists per game against the Jamal Murray is the only other Nugget with even a slim chance. He's hit double-digit assists in each of the four Finals games, but his scoring average of 23.3 points per game leaves a bit to be desired with Jokic topping 30. Jimmy Butler leads the Heat, but he, too has had an underwhelming series. Bam Adebayo has been better in the series, defending Jokic and scoring at least 20 points in all four games, but Vegas is pricing in the fact that Miami will need a superheroic effort from Butler if it is going to complete the comeback. Ultimately, the odds are this skewed for a reason. Voters understand how much of Denver's success comes down to Jokic, and the Nuggets are one win away from the championship. There's just no reason to believe the Nuggets will lose this series, and if they win it, he has clearly been their best player. Expect him to take home the Bill Russell trophy on Monday.