Reports say Jokic wanted to play & in today’s nba a 3x mvp is gonna hold more power than the coaching staff if he feels fine to play and wants to he will.

He did have a 25min restriction that quickly went out the window and ended up playing over 40 lmao

Yeah bro idk wtf is wrong with Denver. Just glad we got 1 ring in my lifetime.

As much as I respect Joker for wanting to play, as a Sixers fan, I ain’t fuckin’ with injury luck, personally. I’d be calling for the S&C staff to put their damn feet down. This is a fairly low-stakes regular season game, there’s so much basketball left to be played. Enforce that minutes restriction strictly and ramp him up the right way.

I don’t think it should affect him too adversely long-term but again, I ain’t fuckin’ with injury luck.

Yes he should have been subbed out, he had no legs and was chucking 3s

He probably wants to win the awards 

I think him shooting 1-13 or whatever it was from 3 more concerning for the analytics coach than the medical staff

Why u acting like jokic was forced to play. He probably wanted to play.

For a regular season game that’s wildddd.

The real shit is that they lost and he played pretty poorly down the stretch

If there is a minutes restriction set by the medical team and the coaching staff and players can decide to exceed it over and over, that says me the medical team is not empowered to enforce anything, as opposed to them being irresponsible.

You are aware a medical staff can only make a recommendation right? Like if Jokic says he is good to keep playing and the coach let’s him, there is nothing they can do.

I think as a team they want to win and the players also want awards so they are taking the old school approach of just playing through injuries which is normal in sports but it will for sure come back to them in the end. I always think how Isiah Thomas cut his career so short playing through injuries in Boston and it for sure wasn’t worth it to him in hindsight

Jokic wants his MVP. Do you think the staff is gonna overrule their franchise player?

Wait, are we for or against load management? This place confuses me

All that just to lose. Spurs would never.

I made fun of Adelman and the Nuggets management last week when he joked about overriding the minutes restriction because of Doc and I got clowned.

Its ridiculous on two fronts. First its a self own. Why even tell us about it if you’re going to ignore it?

Second, it feels ridiculously shortsighted and gross mismanagement if these minutes restrictions are actually important.

Nahhh the most irresponsible medical teams are Philly and Memphis.

Adelman makes maybe \(3 million a year. Jokic makes \)55 million. The NBA coach is not empowered over players, especially a new one over a 3 time MVP.

These guys are desperately trying to catch SAS and/or OKC to avoid being the 3 seed. In this case it backfired.

Most people need to learn the hard way. Let ‘em learn!

Most irresponsible medical team and coaching staff you say? Dallas says hi. 👋🏽

Somewhere in heaven tom thibodeau is smiling

NBA fans - complain when the stars aren’t playing and now complain when they do lol.

I get the sentiment, but they’re trained medical professionals, not redditors, going to assume they are qualified and understand the risk of his injury and are managing it properly

Jokic run things over there.

Basketball players play basketball, as long as he’s healthy and wants to play I’m good.Third loss in a row, they’re 1.5 games up on a play in spot. They really wanted this game.

KD being played this many minutes at 37 is worse than

65 game rule man, Jokic doesn’t want to miss out. These things matter to players

Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”

Dumbass medical team and a dumbass head coach

Don’t run this guy to the ground! The only team that can stop okc from repeating

Speculation here but Denver and especially Jokic are probably frustrated that they clearly improved from last year, all the pieces are there to do a lot better than you’re currently doing but injuries and such just keep throwing everything out of sync.

I mean Jamal’s balling harder than he’s ever balled, P wat’s going crazy and they finally have a bench + Big who can at worst sustain the lead, but everything else is going wrong lmao.

Tbf, a lot of this comes down to injury luck. We lost Braun, Jokic, Cam Johnson and Spencer Jones due to freak accidents. Peyton’s injury was part bad luck and a lot of reliance on him during games. Just gotta hope for everyone to be healthy when the playoffs start

Jokic is the GM, HC , concessionaire, etc.’Whatever he says goes. And we are ok with it.

The dude is our sun and we are just in his orbit cheesing away.

No the mavs tried to end ADs career

Blazers… hold my beer

If Jokic is demanding you leave him in, you leave him in.

Don’t worry we got AG…

He can’t miss what 1 or 2 games otherwise he’s missed too many games for mvp

Kat came back with stitches. WTH happened to Spencer jones? He was locking down Brunson and Denver really could have used him. I think they should have benched Braun near the end of the game.

It’s not the playoffs ffs. Give the guy a break.

not talking about the minute restriction but it’s way easier to play on a turned ankle the day of. during the game it’s sore and has a lot of give but you can tape up and play the game. it’s the sitting down where the problem is. i didn’t watch the game but i assume jokic prolly said he wanted to play thru it. what are you gonna do. say no to him?

He was melting out there lmao

It was also n the 3rd game in 4 nights.

Smh

I mean they played double overtime. It’s hard to get to overtime and just stop playing your best guy. How many NBA teams throw in the towel and rest their players at the start of overtime?

Our backups have been playing fine we need to be more strategic about resting our guys and then easing them in when they return from injury. Our most promising season could be over before we even make the post season. And next season a lot of our backups will have been signed elsewhere.

Jokic wasn’t coming out of the games, they are open about Jokic telling them to fuck off

at least honestly say the game went 2OT, youre making it sound like he played 45 out of 48 minutes which he didn’t do lol

10 minutes were added to the game and he was sitting during portions of each OT period and to start the 4th

Jokic stayed in because he wanted to nail 2 threes. He said you can bench me when I hit a second three tonight

this really is my life 😁😛😀

No you haven’t watched enough basketball in your life nephew.

Minutes restrictions are advisements not instructions….

Yes

or maybe they understand that they earn big money because people want to see these players … play.

Fat man needs the exercise

Jokic doing everything he can to get out of All Star Weekend.

They’re not winning the chip this year due to injuries.

Minute restriction are meant to be broken. Stop using that language, call it suggested minutes.

Jokic is desperate for awards

DA not a good coach

Jokic is 30, and he’s been a professional athlete for more than a decade. He knows his body and what it can handle. He’s also paid more than Adelman and if he wanted to make a big stink about being pulled he could.

It was foolish to keep him out there, especially when he kept bricking the 3s. But I understand why it happened.