Denver – Nikola Jokic will be an average of triple double for the season, produce Denver The star of the third player in the history of the NBA to withdraw such performance.
It happened statistically on Friday evening when Yokic got its fourth assistance in the game Nuggets against Memphis grizzlies. This assistance was his 700. The season – so, even if he doesn’t get another regular season before the end of Sunday, which would be his 70. The game is assured that on average it is not worse than 10.0 assistance.
Other players diameter three times the pair throughout the season: Russell westbrookJokic’s current teammate in Denver and Basketball Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson.
Westbrook did it four times-2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 for Oklahoma City, as in the years 2020-21 for Washington-A Robertson did it in the 1961-62 season for Cincinnati.
Help that secured her for Jokic came to score Christian Braun With about 52 seconds, it remains in the first half. It was not originally attributed; The box score was updated at half -time.
Jokic – Serbian star, which has won three of the last four NBA awards MVP and this season is again the highest candidate for this honor together with Oklahoma City Shai Gilgeous-Alexander -He stepped on Friday with 33 triple polite this season. No other NBA player elsewhere entered Friday with more than 10 this season.
This will be the first time that Jokic average the double digit digits in assists. His previous Best career was 2022-23, ending with 9.8 assists along with 24.5 points and 11.8 rebounds.
“If you have a guy like Yokic, who creates so much insults for his teammates, everyone will have a really good look if you don’t do the right things,” said Minnesota coach Chris Finch early this month.
Jokic also assured that this season he will complete the average career in scoring and will probably end up with the second best average of his career. This season, it also sets the best career in 3-out and 3-point percentage.
Jokic needed 73 points in the last two games – against Grizzlies on Friday and the final in Houston on Sunday – to move the diameter of the score to 30.0 for the season. If this happens, it would be the third 30-point triple average in the NBA history; Westbrook and Robertson did it once.
Jokic also entered Friday with 163 regular seasonal triple policies for his career, the second most in the history of the NBA behind Westbrook 203. The second is Westbrook, which pulled this performance three times.
