{"id":319743,"date":"2023-03-01T20:12:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T19:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=319743"},"modified":"2023-03-01T20:12:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T19:12:59","slug":"malone-i-dont-care-what-people-think-nikola-jokic-is-the-mvp-of-this-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/malone-i-dont-care-what-people-think-nikola-jokic-is-the-mvp-of-this-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Malone: I don&#8217;t care what people think, Nikola Jokic is the MVP of this league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Nuggets coach Michael Malone has no doubt, Nikola Jokic deserves the NBA regular season MVP award for the third consecutive year.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf you\u2019re looking for a super athlete to win MVP, he\u2019s not your candidate,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/los-angeles-clippers-denver-nuggets-nba-sports-nikola-jokic-549fbf7fa9cad9c4fe0053729aef0eb4\">Malone said of Jokic.<\/a>\u00a0<em>\u201cIf you\u2019re looking for a great player that impacts winning in every possible way, whose team is first place in the Western Conference, then he\u2019s your man. Frankly, I don\u2019t give a damn what people think. I know he\u2019s the MVP and his teammates know that and all the fans here in Denver and back home in Serbia know that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jokic continues to improve, despite coming off two incredible seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Serbian center is producing 24.6 points, 11.7 rebounds and 10 assists in 55 games, shooting an incredible 67% from two-point range, 39% from beyond the arc and 82% from the foul line.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">100 big ones \ud83d\udcc8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4WrUhN0UIN\">pic.twitter.com\/4WrUhN0UIN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuggets\/status\/1630761003762995200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last night Jokic became the 6th player in NBA history to cross the 100 triple-double mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Serbian center is producing 24.6 points, 11.7 rebounds and 10 assists in 55 games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":319742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-319743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/FqGf5eAaUAA8wPK.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319743"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=319743"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=319743"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=319743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}