lexa0121

216 | 15 hours ago

+16 in a 1 point loss gotta hurt

Bignamek

98 | 15 hours ago

Valančiūnas was -17.

1manadeal2btw | Nuggets

70 | 15 hours ago

That sums up the entire game lol.

Dependent-Effect6077 | Nuggets

45 | 15 hours ago

Jokic has to be cursed to never have depth I swear

Finally has a bench that isn’t bleeding massive points for the first time in his prime and of course 3 of the starters get hurt so it’s back to the usual non-Jokic minutes disaster

1manadeal2btw | Nuggets

24 | 15 hours ago

AG and CB were timetabled to come back after Christmas. They should be back soon.

Bignamek

2 | 15 hours ago

Literally lol

TraditionalError9988

11 | 15 hours ago

Yeah, we know they have several starters out, but Joker needs more help.

Folks say he’s only won one chip, well that isn’t his fault, he’s balled out, shown up etc.

The 4 starters tonight besides Joker combined had fewer rebounds than Joker did.

Those 4 dudes totaled 139 mins of play tonight and they had LESS boards combined than Joker did in 38 mins.

The 4 starters other than Joker combined for 7 assists tonight. Joker had 12 himself.

So in 139 mins of play, the 4 non-Joker starters only totaled 7 combined assists.

Jonas was brought in to help the team when Joker wasn’t on the court.

Joans played 10 minutes tonight and he was NEGATIVE 17 in those 10 mins on the court.

4 fouls in those 10 mins too.

Folks will keep Joker lower on all time lists and it has nothing to do with him, how great he is, how great he produces and it has everything to do with front office not putting better players along side him.

They are wasting Joker’s prime.

Steph is awesome, but he had good players around him.

OKC has an incredibly talented team, very deep and yes, SGA is awesome.

Bron had D Wade and Chris Bosh, then he had a younger AD at like 27 who was fresh due to the long Covid layoff so he was able to ball out for the Mickey Mouse chip years back.

Many teams have 2 or 3 great players, over the recent years and Joker still hasn’t had an all star teammate yet. Murray might break that this season, have to wait and see.

But all in all, Joker has less help than other top players.

Tatum and Brown are like 1A and 1B and Joker didn’t have a running mate like they did for his chip.

Besides Tatum and Brown, those Celtics also had great role players like Al Horford, Kristaps, Jrue Holliday, Derrick White.

So many “ding” Joker for just one chip but it’s not the man’s fault. It’s not like he chokes in game 7’s like Harden or he’s been hurt and missed many playoffs like Embiid or Kawhi etc.

We are watching greatness and so many just shrug it off.

CRUSTBUSTICUS | 76ers

3 | 7 hours ago

I’d say the chip run version of Jamal Murray was absolutley a 1B dude turned it the fuck on for that run and was unstoppable at times.

fuckyoutoobitches

3 | 13 hours ago

what in the copypasta

Adventurous-Owl-9903 | Pistons

1 | 4 hours ago

“Mickey mouse” chip oh hell nawl

MacYps

161 | 15 hours ago

That one ref was wild..

T1HiShin

172 | 15 hours ago

3 straight calls for the Magic, 2 overturned, and the third sticks because Nuggets ran out of challenges lmfao

YaPhetsEz

109 | 15 hours ago

I’ll never understand why you are limitted on challenges even if you get them correct.

Like why are teams punished for officiating ineptitude?

Astemius

30 | 14 hours ago

Totally agree. It makes no sense. In badminton, you keep your challenges if it was a ref error.

The remark about games taking 3+ hours is a non argument. They already put ads everywhere. I’d rather remove some timeouts and keep the challenges when refs are wrong. It be way more interesting and fair. And if you want to get the game shorter, just stop having the final 2min of close games takes up to 20min (intentional foul = ft + possession. Problem solved). But I guess I’m just dreaming and the NBA will stay a shitty packaging made around something that could easily be an absolutely great product. Officiating is a shame. Greediness is insane.

Barrelled_Chef_Curry | Warriors

3 | 12 hours ago

Agreed, if you nail every challenge, you get as many as timeouts you have

rmacd2po | NBA

-15 | 15 hours ago

To stop the games from taking 3+ hours. The NBA isn’t nearly as interested in getting it right as they are with keeping eyes on the product. They are mostly mutually exclusive.

YaPhetsEz

24 | 15 hours ago

Then the refs should be better. Don’t punish teams for shitty officials

FKJVMMP | MIL

1 | 6 hours ago

You’d think they’d do more about just about every close game turning into an intentional FT-fest if they were that pressed about it, can’t be too much of a concern.

heat_fan_ | Raptors

83 | 15 hours ago

+16 in a loss are you serious

NitroXYZ | UTA

40 | 15 hours ago

Don’t have to look too far to see something like that.

Gobert was +18 in a 4 point OT loss literally 2 days ago on Christmas

PeopleCallMeSimon

23 | 15 hours ago

Difference is that Jokic played 5 more minutes in this regulation game than Gobert did in the OT game.

DukeOfStuff_ | Timberwolves

5 | 11 hours ago

Plus Gobert got ejected

JollyNincompoop | Raptors

2 | 10 hours ago

ACKSHUHLY he fouled out

Ant had him covered anyway

Bignamek

2 | 15 hours ago

Valančiūnas was a -17.

rwoteit | Vancouver Grizzlies

0 | 8 hours ago

1 game plusminus means nothing.

TemperatureXtreme

86 | 15 hours ago

Two huge mistakes by referees, and idk if bane tripped by himself at the end, but yeah, refball sure won.

Greenwalrus72

27 | 15 hours ago

He ran into brown who already had position and stepped on browns foot, causing him to fall over.

and this call affected the game too, was earlier but in a 1 point loss gotta call it out

[Highlight] Tim Hardaway Jr. fouls Jase Richardson on the corner 3 attempt, THJ claims Jase kicked his leg out, keeps arguing with the official and eventually receives a technical foul (with a replay). THJ was also having with the Magic’s head coach Jamahl Mosley : r/nba

LurkerFailsLurking | Nuggets

9 | 11 hours ago

I said it elsewhere, but yeah the refs sucked, but Jonas Valanciunas was -17 in 10 minutes. And the worst part of it was, the reason he was so bad was he was fouling guys on purpose because he was frustrated, or tired, or sick. He didn’t want to be at work today and I get it, but that really sucked.

tacopower69 | DEN

2 | 7 hours ago

Is this his second account or does lurk just have enough reddit cred that there are 5 year old accounts referencing him in their username?

dacooljamaican | Nuggets

2 | an hour ago

“Lurking” has been a Reddit thing well before that username was taken. That’s where they got the name in the first place.

Dependent-Effect6077 | Nuggets

55 | 15 hours ago

We’re seriously going to go the entire Jokic era without a single dominant regular season team

So many massive blown leads this season and in the West you can’t afford that watch us be a 4th/5th seed and 2nd round exit

This year isn’t as inexcusable because of the injuries but topping out at 57 wins with Jokic’s full prime is a disgrace when you look at the amount of relatively unremarkable squads that have won 60+

sorakaisthegoat | Supersonics

8 | 15 hours ago

I don’t really have an issue with not being a dominant regular season team. But not being a dominant regular season team and ending up being gassed in the playoffs is a problem. Frankly this season doesn’t seem much different in that regard. Really hope they tank a few losses and get Jokic 10ish games of rest. It’s not a coincidence that their championship run came with the entire team chilling in March and April. West is much tougher this year but you’re never catching OKC anyway so idk why you would go above and beyond for a higher seed.

BruceBrownMVP | Nets

12 | 13 hours ago

The higher seed you are the easier matchups you get though, it’s not a coincidence their championship run came when they were the 1st seed and then everyone accused them of playing easy teams.

Hyde1505

5 | 13 hours ago

It’s not a coincidence, but for other reasons than you think. They didn’t win the championship because they chilled in March and April - they chilled in March and April because they were so good that year that it allowed them to chill…and they won the championship because they were so good that year.

wypipoarenotallies

7 | 15 hours ago

they need a guy like MPJ

Waikuku3

30 | 15 hours ago

and they are without Braun, Gordon and Cam Johnson. Ofc they will struggle

better_every_day14

21 | 15 hours ago

Not for 40 million a year

Pepper-Jun | Nuggets

15 | 15 hours ago

Brother we are missing 3 starters who also happen to be our 3 best defensive players, we’re literally off to the best start in nuggets franchise history (better than our chip year) despite all the injuries.

Apprehensive-Sir-411 | Thunder

3 | 14 hours ago

Watson, Hardaway, and Jones being good (at the very least capable) players matters more than regular-season seeding in the long run. I’d be very encouraged as a Nuggets fan

Pepper-Jun | Nuggets

7 | 14 hours ago

oh I am

Dependent-Effect6077 | Nuggets

6 | 15 hours ago

Nah last year’s regular season was 100 times worse lmao

MPJ was absolutely part of the problem in terms of randomly zoning out

Mr_Saxobeat94

6 | 15 hours ago

lol their True Shooting % AS A TEAM is 63.2 — higher than MPJ this year or last year.

They don’t need more offence. They need their three best defensive players back.

MAMBAMENTALITY8-24 | Thunder

3 | 15 hours ago

Tbf mpj was always gonna cook if he gets all the shots

Some-Round2365

3 | 13 hours ago

Mpj was total ass in the playoffs

ObeseKenyan | DEN

3 | 12 hours ago

Spot the casual

rwoteit | Vancouver Grizzlies

0 | 8 hours ago

You’re so close to the answer but oc teammates will get the blame.

Je-K | Bucks

37 | 15 hours ago

That’s a lot of triple doubles against one team

redditstealsyours | NBA

42 | 15 hours ago

that’s cool, but all i know is adam silver’s nba fucking sucks. dudes just be running int the paint falling down getting fouls

Frosty_Salamander_94

31 | 15 hours ago

They were a +16 in his 38 minutes and a -17 in the 10 mins with Valanciunas.

JoshuaCastleBooks

23 | 15 hours ago

The nuggets just got called for 5 more fouls when the Orlando team tripped in the tunnel after the game.

DakoftheDead

2 | 4 hours ago

lol Jokic with more FTs than FGs two games in a row. Go off though.

BlackAfroUchiha | Raptors

9 | 15 hours ago

Jokic carrying the Nuggets like the Joker carried the Dark Knight.

Anxious_Blueberry_65 | Nuggets

8 | 15 hours ago

Get ready for a “despite the loss” run lmao

With 3 starter injured our bench look horrible and adelman dont want to adapt…

AlwaysRightNeverLeft | Nuggets

10 | 13 hours ago

What do you mean doesn’t want to adapt? What should he be doing? Playing Zeke and Hunter Tyson?

Greenwalrus72

2 | 15 hours ago

Braun could be back as soon as next game, although it’ll probably be longer. Really hope he comes back quickly.

spiralism | Nuggets

1 | 2 hours ago

Doesn’t want to adapt? 60% of the starting lineup is injured so our decent bench players are starting and our bench is once again comprised of the Booth era shit we’d thought we’d already flushed.

Public_Radio-

6 | 15 hours ago

despite the loss 🥀

GaimeGuy | Timberwolves

6 | 15 hours ago

180 against one team is impressive :)

Pepper-Jun | Nuggets

3 | 15 hours ago

He just genuinely hates Orlando I guess

gridironk

5 | 15 hours ago

Jokic is great but Jermaine O’Neal locking him up in the early 2000s

Flight team stand up!

Public_Radio-

2 | 15 hours ago

he’s sending that to the cheap seats

legendguy123

-6 | 15 hours ago

Don’t even get me started on Ben Wallace. He woulda had Jokic crying in the locker room

Some-Round2365

6 | 13 hours ago

6’7” Wallace, no chance. Jokic cooks on all 3 levels.

_Tar_Ar_Ais_

1 | 6 hours ago

six seven

Matzeeh | Spurs

6 | 15 hours ago

Dont get why they go to Murray at the end

sorakaisthegoat | Supersonics

14 | 15 hours ago

They clearly didn’t go to him, Orlando played good defense, he threw a shit pass and then had to improvise.

Headlesshorsman02 | Thunder

1 | 15 hours ago

Makes zero sense

MusicalElephant420 | NBA

1 | 15 hours ago

Lakers fans know why

curva3 | 76ers

5 | 15 hours ago

Anthony Black deserves a stat post as well, Jokic already has 3

Due-Analyst-8504 | Nuggets

18 | 15 hours ago

Be the change you want to see

hopopo | Celtics

7 | 15 hours ago

Nikola Jokić will be the first person in sports history to be robbed of 3 MVP titles.

Weird-Soft-9736

6 | 12 hours ago

ATP I literally feel bad for Jokic and even Jamal. I know Jamal has been a bum in the playoffs because of injuries & regular season but he really is having an all star and even all nba 3rd team season this year. And as for Jokic, he is just cursed atp. He gets a good roster finally but it gets plagued with injuries. Bros having the highest bpm season, highest winshares per 48, and highest PER. And not to mention the 30 point triple double on 60% efficien, 43% from three. Carrying this nuggets team to only 3 losses below the okc thunder who have 6 players in the top 10 net rated defense, 3 all stars, and top 3 league wide player. Absolutely insane put this man in the wilt era he’s averaging 80/50/10

Weird-Soft-9736

3 | 12 hours ago

I’m not even a nuggets fan lol I’m a sixers fan

champsorchumps

5 | 15 hours ago

Nobody has every put up 90 points, 30+ rebounds and 25+ assists before in a 2 game span before tonight.

Almost nobody has ever done 90/20/20 before in 2 straight games:

Ask Screwball: At least 90 points, 20 rebounds and 20 assists in any 2 game span

Player	PTS	REB	AST	G	First	Last	PER
Nikola Jokic	90	37	27	2	Dec 25, 2025	Dec 27, 2025	45.6
Luka Doncic	101	20	24	2	Jan 26, 2024	Jan 27, 2024	37.0
Luka Doncic	95	33	23	2	Dec 27, 2022	Dec 29, 2022	47.5
Russell Westbrook	94	26	21	2	Mar 27, 2017	Mar 29, 2017	42.4

LurkerFailsLurking | Nuggets

5 | 11 hours ago

+16 in a 1 point loss.

The bench was absolutely awful

Renegadeforever2024 | Raptors

4 | 15 hours ago

jokic is the anomaly of all anomies in today’s nba

MasterBossKing

3 | 15 hours ago

I feel bad for Jokic he literally has to do the heavy lifting. 3 of the starters are down. If they lose Jamal (a well known issue of injuries,but praying he completes the season healthy) how will Denver handle it, Hope that papa bear can handle all the 82 games plus playoffs stress.Mentally and Physically.

Icy_Marsupial7560

2 | 15 hours ago

He needs to play 48 mins

The-Pharcyde | Raptors

2 | 15 hours ago

Contender for best despite the loss statline of the season thus far

Superstar_Rezo

2 | 15 hours ago

So, another ALL TIME season without MVP just because he still fking do not have AS teammate or at least decent team to win 60 games out of 82

dating_derp | Warriors

2 | 13 hours ago

Only 27 triple doubles behind Westbrook. Oscar Robertson had the title of Mr. Triple Double for 47 years. Westbrook took the title from Robertson in 2021. That’s going to be a short-lived reign.

SuperVaderMinion | MIN

2 | 13 hours ago

21 Rebounds dude how’s he better at that than guys whose whole job is rebounds??

Coldsnowyandmisty

2 | 9 hours ago

“Against the Magic”.

This was Nuggets vs the Refs. They hosed the Nuggets.

Refs sadly do this basically to every team in the league except Lakers and OKC. So, all you gotta do is move on. It’s inescapable for refs to have these extra, extra bad nights here and there.

There are ways to fix it or minimize nights like these but considering time issues and such. I can see why the league hasnt stepped in.

Atleast when it matters the most, it’s a bo7 so refs probably won’t have 4 of these nights in one series unless you are playing the Lakers or OKC…

pichukirby | Knicks

1 | 15 hours ago

1 away from tying Oscar Robertson

gashndash

1 | 14 hours ago

Seems like my Maxey MVP hopes are dead

cagemyelephant_ | Nuggets

1 | 14 hours ago

Predictable loss. Jokic doing Jokic things. The wins we get ever since 3 starters are out are just bonus

PrecedentialAssassin | Rockets

1 | 6 hours ago

That’s got to be the most triple doubles against one team in NBA history. I didn’t even realise that Jokic has played Orlando 180 times.

DakoftheDead

1 | 5 hours ago

And the L

SpeakWithoutFear

0 | 15 hours ago

Someone needs to ask Mark Lindsay how much he got paid to get a win for the Magic. What an awful fucking reffed game down the stretch.

He single handedly missed two egregious and obvious fouls that Denver overturned with challenges. Then was the one who blew the whistle on Bane tripping over himself.

Just an incredible refjob tonight. Bravo.

goughnotsmough

1 | 29 minutes ago

Jokic is dropping Wilt statlines in the modern NBA its insane.

Bengals8958 | Wizards

-2 | 15 hours ago

Murray is the biggest fraud in the nba lol. Could throw any scoring guard next to Jokic and put up his numbers. Was thoroughly outplayed by Anthony black tonight

TheAgmis | Thunder

-4 | 12 hours ago

Had more FTs made than FGs made too! Something something ethical basketball right internet??

-FlapjacK- | Magic

-7 | 15 hours ago

Anthony Black owns him I’m afraid

ParticularRatio1357

-10 | 15 hours ago

Jokic was ¹²⁄₁₃ from the line tonight btw.

No mention of his FTA at all in the post… interesting

Also had 5 TO.

Amazing game overall, idk why you gotta “hide” the stats you don’t want people to see though

Greenwalrus72

3 | 15 hours ago

Yeah like for example he was fouled off ball twice in the bonus with no call (one AGAINST him actually) and the nuggets won both challenges so that’s 4 FTs right there.

He gets fouled so much we have to use all our challenges on him every time. Rudy pushed him in the back last game and got the board then bricked a layup with no contact by Jokic, then pushed him AGAIN, and it was called a foul on Jokic. Then remember we also had to use a challenge last game because rudy gobert ran through jokics arms to get to a ball jokic had possession of and it was again called a foul on jokic.

Mr_Saxobeat94

0 | 15 hours ago

Probably because it’s a praiseful OP. Not like it would change that much.

ParticularRatio1357

-6 | 15 hours ago

It does when you see all the Nuggets fans crying about fouls in the Magic stat posts about Anthony Black and Desmond Bane lol

Mr_Saxobeat94

-1 | 15 hours ago

lol it’s JokicProp and clearly not meant to be a dispassionate analysis of his game on a granular level. Why should the OP care what other people are doing?

ParticularRatio1357

-2 | 15 hours ago

A stat post is a stat post.

Hiding the free massive throw attempts and then turning around and complaining about other players free throws is hilarious

Mr_Saxobeat94

2 | 15 hours ago

You let fan wars affect you too much, brother. 👍🏻

Automatic_Tension702 | Raptors

-1 | 14 hours ago

And then they downvote you loolll

Creepy_Ruin3891

-23 | 15 hours ago

FT merchant

NiKolaNiPepsi | Nuggets

17 | 15 hours ago

did you watch the game lmao

schoolhater12 | Raptors

6 | 15 hours ago

yep, should have had more

Creepy_Ruin3891

-5 | 15 hours ago

No what happened

ilikekittens2018

4 | 15 hours ago

He was being fouled like crazy, Adelman had to use both challenges on the most blatantly obvious things. Incredibly frustrating.

Creepy_Ruin3891

-1 | 15 hours ago

Fair enough

trezzy1242 | Thunder

-22 | 15 hours ago

The god of basketball can lose?

Frosty_Salamander_94

23 | 15 hours ago

Guy put up 34-21-12 and went +16 in 38 minutes. Not the game to comment on for you

trezzy1242 | Thunder

-20 | 15 hours ago

In a loss.

Capable-Schedule1753

10 | 15 hours ago

How have the last couple thunder games gone?

trezzy1242 | Thunder

-11 | 15 hours ago

And what’s our record?

Capable-Schedule1753

11 | 15 hours ago

From beating up on lottery teams? Y’all lose when you play any actually good teams.

trezzy1242 | Thunder

0 | 15 hours ago

You had the second easiest schedule bud.

Capable-Schedule1753

5 | 15 hours ago

But who had the easiest?

trezzy1242 | Thunder

-1 | 15 hours ago

And we are first in the league.

Capable-Schedule1753

8 | 15 hours ago

First in the league, yet can’t beat any good teams… sure, I’m sure that’ll last.

analyzingnothing | Nuggets

5 | 15 hours ago

Yes, because the bench went -17 in the 10 minutes he wasn’t on the court.

u_sijenci | Nuggets

1 | 15 hours ago

Was +16 in a loss, yes.

Aught_To | Nuggets

2 | 15 hours ago

Not by other teams, usually it takes the refs.

Nikola Jokic gets his 180th triple double against the Magic despite the loss: 34 PTS, 21 REB, 12 AST, +16 on 11⁄22 shooting

Ask Screwball: At least 90 points, 20 rebounds and 20 assists in any 2 game span

Nikola Jokic gets his 180th triple double against the Magic despite the loss: 34 PTS, 21 REB, 12 AST, +16 on ¹¹⁄₂₂ shooting