Denver Nuggets famous person Nikola Jokić turned 30 on Wednesday.
“The Joker” has dazzled the NBA scene throughout his 10-year profession with a definite and multidimensional offensive talent set for an enormous man. He has the mix of having the ability to facilitate, hit absurdly difficult photographs and play within the put up at a excessive stage. His profession has additionally featured an NBA championship and numerous accolades.
This is Jokic’s historic NBA profession by the numbers:
1: Jokic is way and away first in Nuggets historical past with 155 profession triple-doubles — which is third in NBA historical past as an entire. For perspective, Fats Lever is second with 43 triple-doubles, and Dikembe Mutombo is third with eight. Jokic can also be first in franchise historical past with 7,866 whole rebounds and 5,169 assists.
1.3: The massive man has averaged underneath one steal per sport simply as soon as (his second season); he is averaging a mixed 1.3 steals per sport for his profession.
3: Jokic has claimed three NBA MVPs, profitable them in three of the previous 4 full seasons. Moreover, he is already third in Nuggets historical past with 15,597 profession factors and third amongst NBA large males with 5,169 profession assists, behind Corridor of Famers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Karl Malone.
3-10: Throughout the 49 video games that he has appeared on this season, Jokic is averaging a triple-double: 29.8 factors, 12.6 rebounds and 10.2 assists per sport. Ought to all these marks keep in double digits, he would develop into simply the third participant in NBA historical past to common a triple-double in a single season, together with his teammate, Russell Westbrook, and Oscar Robertson being the opposite two gamers to perform the feat.
7: Jokic’s 2025 NBA All-Star Recreation choice was the seventh such honor of his profession — with every of these nods coming over the previous seven consecutive seasons. In all probability, Jokic may even make it seven consecutive All-NBA honors when the season concludes. In the meantime, this season is the seventh time that he has averaged double-digit rebounds per sport.
10: Jokic has ranked within the high 10 in assists per sport in every of the previous 5 seasons — together with being second with 10.2 assists per sport this season — whereas being top-three in every of the previous three seasons.
27.7: In comparison with his regular-season profession mark of 21.5 factors per sport, Jokic is averaging 27.7 factors per sport within the postseason, which is sweet for tenth in NBA historical past.
30: Jokic has been a drive to be reckoned with as a scorer within the common season, however he has been much more productive within the postseason. Most notably, within the group’s 2022-23 NBA Finals run, the large man averaged 30.0 factors per sport.
33: He is considered one of simply 33 gamers in NBA historical past to attain 50 factors in a postseason sport, as Jokic dropped 53 factors in Recreation 4 of Denver’s 2023 quarterfinal spherical matchup towards the Phoenix Suns. Granted, it got here in a dropping effort.
40: Jokic was the forty first choice within the 2014 NBA Draft; he did not seem within the NBA till the 2015-16 season, taking part in for Mega Basket within the Adriatic Basketball Affiliation through the 2014-15 NBA league yr. In different phrases, 40 gamers have been chosen earlier than Jokic.
45: Jokic is capturing a career-high and present franchise-high 45% from behind the arc.
80: The Denver centerpiece has by no means shot beneath 80% from the free-throw line in a single season.
126.1: Jokic at present leads the NBA with a 126.1 offensive score and 21.2 participant impression estimate (PIE).
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