Nikola Jokic on SGA tying Wilt with 126 consecutive 20-point games: “I don’t know that people know how hard it is to do that. To make 20 pointsin 10 (straight) games, not 120 whatever it is, it’s special. He’s a special player.”
You know it’s hard because normally for records, people just exclude Wilt and you are considered to “break the record” if you beat everyone except Wilt.
”_ Is the greatest _ ever… outside of Wilt Chamberlain of course”
can’t tell for sure but is this a jjk reference lmao
“Outside of Gojo Satoru of course”
Is adult Yuta stronger than Gojo? I know it’s close.
I think the consensus is that Adult Yuta has the capacity to surpass Gojo. Gojo even says this a fair few times. And given that teen Yuta has domain expansion on lock, almost limitless energy from Rika and the Copy technique, it’s fair to say that him as a teen is already on track to surpass Gojo.
!Plus when he bodyswaps in Gojo’s body, he begins to learn about Gojo’s techniques and I wonder if adult him ever found a way to utilise those techniques after returning to his own body!<
It is really weird for me that they successfully have >!preserved his original body to return to!< lmao
Luta is getting bodied by Wuji tho
Suddenly shounenfolk
Modulo is fucking ass
Got that stupid “friendship wins” ending
Modulo was pretty good actually, until the last 2 chapters which were indeed ass.
Id argue it had better writing then a big chunk of jjk. Jjk was just hype, aura and asspulls after shibuya and the culling games.
Sukuna Kaisen(the gauntlet) is going to be great to watch animated, but it was just way too long and ended up in a major asspull saved for the end for no reason.n
I’ve never seen JJK but I’m familiar with the Japanese practice of putting somebody’s family name first, for us in the West is his “first name” Gojo or Satoru?
His first name is Satoru.
Of course it is
“Who’s Wilt Chamberlain?”
Now, we need a new record to be broken from an NBA player to have slept with 20,001 women.
The league has so many records “since the merger” because of him
Interesting that both top players today are well known for surpassing or equaling Wilt records. Jokic had his 30-20-20 game, gonna lead the league in assists and rebounding which even Wilt never did, and now Shai is probably gonna blow that 20-point streak out of the water. I legit can’t imagine him not scoring 20 in one way or another if he doesn’t go down cause of injury mid game.
Both players respect and appreciate each other. They’ve brought us the best basketball, the best games, and the most interesting storylines over the last few years.
The discourse online is indicative of larger problems, IMO, like social media companies realizing hate is the strongest motivation to post and keeping people in that frenzy.
Bingo. Can’t just appreciate greatness, it has to be compared, it has to be attacked to prop up someone else, we gotta get tribal about everything.
I don’t know that SGA cares for Jokic much lol
Jokic gave him a pretty normal foul in their previous game and SGA reacted by chucking the ball at him for a T
Nah, as an OKC fan I’ll admit it myself that he had to cheese quite a few games to keep that streak alive lol
A lot of teams just double him from the start and if we can’t space the floor properly and the strategy keeps working, he has to work harder and harder to get those 20 points.
I think he’ll let it go after breaking the record once he goes through one of those games again.
I mean, it ain’t that many. He’s only had five games under 25 points this whole season.
Yeah and it takes just one game to break the streak. Pelicans doubled him so hard back in NOLA, I thought the streak was done and dusted back in November.
He had 3 games under twenty in the playoffs last year.
The only way he breaks it is against like the nets or another team like that and okc just blows them out and he barely plays the second half
Shai won’t give up on the streak even for that, he’ll play enough to get 20 and go. No one would blame him.
Meant more so in the future. Could see it happening especially if he hits something absurd like 140-150
Is 14 more absurd?
Part of this is that pace now is closer to pace back then than most or all of the interim period, and while they were still a good bit faster, they also bricked goddamn everything, so the efficiency closes a lot of that gap too.
Ths bricks made the rebounds easier and the assists harder. Wilt was one of the greatest rebounders of his era, but I think he might be a bit overrated in that regard due to raw numbers while his assists might be a bit underrated (same for Bill Russell) both centers were playmaking anomalies in an era where everyone was a bricklayer when shooting even a basic midrange or free throwline jumper.
Jokic told MPJ to wrap up when he saw he on pace to break Wilt’s record of 20,000 women
I have literally never seen anyone do this, 😂.
Clippers didn’t know what they had.
But did the refs help Wilt?
I don’t know who told Jokic to open up more and give us more of his thoughts and insights but thank you
We just need to all learn serbian and we’ll learn how fun of a guy he rlly is
He seems like he would definitely have a small conversation with you if you spoke Serbian to him. I still remember when a reporter pronounced his name “correctly”, his eyes lit up with happiness.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/2AXlKXdQgf
It is pretty embarrassing that people who are paid to talk about basketball still call him “Nick-cola”
Felt the same way about those who exclusively referred to Giannis as the Greek Freak because Antetokounmpo is just so much
Maybe its me just me having a 9 letter surname and living abroad in a bunch of countries, that are not used to the spelling, but I think the most basic form of decency when talking to someone is getting their name right.
And I don’t even mind, when its not 100%, or even close, as long as ppl try.
It’s funny because most Serbian commentators I’ve seen online do not hold this opinion at all. They think he is a relatively plain person who supports a dictator and promotes gambling
Most self proclaimed serbs you saw online were born in Chicago and their exposure with serbian culture started and ended with their partents blasting Bijelo Dugme & Lepa Brena at home.
Most ppl from the balkans are not on his ass about it, as they are used to hearing way worse shit from their family then supporting Vučić and gambling, even though many don’t like it.
Also whoever called him “bland” is an idiot, he is a funny outgoing dude when he wants to be, he just hates media duty.
Need to do the same for SGA.
Both players are so soft spoken, play the game, then live life quietly.
TIL dressing as a banana is living quietly
Most players do. Guys like kd, brooks and ant are the exceptions
Had the honor of waiting on him and the whole team.
He’s genuinely actually a very kind and polite dude.
Since he sat down with Edin
Y’all just haven’t been listening. Maybe he’s opened up a bit this year, especially since the injury but he has always been truly very insightful. His cadence and the language barrier have made people deaf in the past but my guy is a thinker and pretty damn good at putting words together in a foreign language.
Other active streaks of 20+ points: Kawhi - 41(!) Jaylen - 24 Embiid - 24 Jokic - 15 Maxey - 13 Luka - 10 Nobody else has more than 8 in a row.
Kawhi is having one of the most undereated seasons I have ever seen in my entire life.
That aspiration stuff really did a number on that man’s PR.
Part of it’s the aspiration stuff, and part of it’s that there’s not any hype because no one knows if he’ll be healthy by the playoffs (if the team even makes the playoffs)
Him not being selected for the All Star reserves by the coaches was absolutely criminal.
The second part may have had an effect sure, but I think this goes much deeper than that.
The man’s playing at first team all NBA level this year. Been top 2-3 in EPM and DARKO most the season. The aspiration scandal is really the only explanation for him getting snubbed like that
If everyone thinks the NBA isn’t doing shit about that stuff (which is wrong, but that’s not the point), then they’re gonna try to punish him in other ways like discrediting his accomplishments on the court afterward
I get it, tbh
Nobody is thinking like this. The Clippers just sucked for 40% of the season and then just no scope 180’d and people aren’t paying attention to a 9th/10th seed.
I have a feeling he’s going to explode in the playoffs this year.
I don’t think nba fans outside of redditors care about the cap circumvention stuff
It’s not just the fans, I’m talking NBA media into account here as well.
And the fact that he didn’t get chosen to the ASG by coaches too.
I’m very curious how the NBA media will treat him when it comes to the All NBA selections, cause he’s easily 2nd team material.
He will easily make second team dw lol. He has an outside shot at first team frankly
I think Ant had 26 in a row at some point this season not active but worth shouting out for a guy people call inconsistent
Anyone who thinks ANT is inconsistent should check his clutch stats…
Its a great example of people never forgetting old narratives Ant not being clutch is another I still see.
That’s crazy! His efficiency is on par with prime KD, a great two way player, and easily in the mvp convo. I don’t think fans on the internet truly appreciate the talent we get to see on a nightly basis.
Ant has the second most 20+ point games in the same timespan as SGA’s streak actually! So he’s arguably the second consistent player over the past two season, if 20+ point games is the metric
I mean he is inconsistent, maybe not as much as some people say, but watching the games, he’s incredible and locked in 1 quarter, next 2 quarters he is sleeping. Defensively losing his focus, not as aggressive. Last season that was a problem as well from what I have seen, Finch might have benched him here and there.
Kawhi - 41(!)
Unexpected factorial – 3.3452527e+49 would easily break the record.
Kawhi is now at 42
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It feels impossible to put him over that first tier Shai, Jokic, Luka, Cade, Jaylen Brown, Ant, wemby this year. He should be second team though.
lol Jaylen brown
I think he’s ovverated but he’s been better than Kawhi this season
A)you’re missing a very obvious guy here.
B)from the people you have mentioned I think you can make a case for three of those guys, but the Clippers lacking in wins makes it tough so I get it.
It was always scary to count out the Clippers because I always knew the possibility for this guy to show up was there. He’s injured, he’s taking games off, he’s not planting trees, but sometimes basketball is just about having the best guy on the floor and Kawhi can be that guy.
Game recognize game
Yall need to put the clamps on him and put him in hell. You know damn well Mazzulla’s crazy ass wants to win but he also probably wants to be the one to end that streak
ref’s #2 favorite recognizes #1 fav.
You’re witnessing history and your contribution to the discussion is to vomit tired crap to circlejerk with strangers who don’t know you.
Especially considering how refs turned a blind eye to the amount of illegal screens curry benefited from during the dynasty
Many merchants have existed in the past nephew, gets old real quick.
edit: it’s really funny how these SGA and Jokic fans never mention the FT stats, like this stat post shameless af.
Illegal screen merchants
I guarantee I’m older than you, tween.
Only thing SGA trades in is Free Smoke
Illegal Screen dynasty fan upset at the refs, the jokes really write themselves.
P.S: Draymond Green in your team btw.
Is always funny when Warriors fans start chirping bout refs when they had an elite run of illegal screens not being called.
Istg Superstars always respect and compliment each other (except for KD) its the fans that make it toxic
“Except for KD” lol😂
He does sometimes tbf, only not if he played with them and had beef with them usually
KD compliments plenty of players and trash talks them
he just speaking the truth
KD is my dawg but he don’t always speak the truth dawg, not after the KD files.
The only thing KD didn’t speak the truth about in the files is him taking accountability lmao
90% of the things he was saying in KD files were grounded in reality no?
Steve Kerr hates dark skin 🥷🏾 ? Mf was ready to go on a crusade for Dray.
Pretty sure that was a joke
KD is like me: you praise and shittalk the same players
KD just keeps it real. At least according to him. He keeps most of his trash talk to on the court stuff, so its chill imo. Some trash talk is good for the game.
The superstars are the ones who know best what kind of dedication and sacrifice is needed to reach and maintain that level of skill.
I apologize, Jokic, but r/nba will continue this endless circlejerk of dickriding you at the expense of SGA when you win or vice versa when he wins. It is rather unfortunate that the top players have this kind of respect for each other, and then the fans stoop to constantly slinging bad faith narratives around just to see what sticks.
I have been guilty of this in the past, but I am realizing that we are genuinely blessed to witness this much talent in the league at the same time. This is what I work on in therapy 😂
Me with pre-COVID Steph.
Sometimes you just gotta realize that you’re watching something magical.
Myself as well. Giannis turning to the darkside certainly makes it easier to be a neutral though lol
Jokic has always been nothing but nice to his fellow MVP candidates. It’s just some really annoying fans going back and forth making 30 posts so it looks like 30 people
It’s so annoying when people act like comparing top players “isn’t even a contest.”
Having as many consecutive 20-point games as a guy who went a season averaging 50 points is kind of absurd tbh. Wilt averaged 47.4 ppg over that 2 season/160 game stretch
To be fair the only reason wilt missed the mark is due to suspension.
Why would it break the streak in a game he didn’t play? SGA has missed a bunch of games between the 120 total and his streak is intact.
Think they meant he got ejected. He only played 4 mins in the game that broke his streak
Ah, that makes sense, thanks!
I know that Wilt never fouled out of an NBA game and just assumed that included tech elections also. Interesting to learn otherwise!
I think he got ejected and had 100+ on both ends of that ejection. And I would imagine a lot of lesser players than him also had close stretches that was interrupted by injuries, staying healthy is the toughest part imo. Because you pull your hamstring or simply roll your ankle or something, suddenly you are out and the streak is done
Just a day or two ago he said Ant is his favorite player, this is just who jokic is he respects greatness.
Shai and Jokic are the two best players of this era
And the most humble, likeable stars too.
Giannis would like a word, but yeah, those are probably the best 3 in the last 5 years.
For reference, Jokic has had 13 streaks of 10+ straight games with 20 or more points, capping out at 21 (though that spanned multiple seasons).
Doing that as a pass first player is pretty impressive
*very impressive
I think Jokic couldn’t care less about accolades and streaks, he’ll have a game where he has 18 on 9 shots, 17 assists, and he would just pass the ball every possesion. His ideal game is like 12/10/15 where he plays 25 minutes and leaves in a blowout game
It’s funny how many people hate him because of their support for another player, but this is how he talks about their favorite player
When will we as fans realize the players don’t care at all about the social media wars being fought each day by their fanbases. It’s not even a rivalry thing - it’s just personal hate for other players.
And it doesn’t have to be this way. The Thunder and Nuggets are great teams with a growing rivalry. SGA and Jokic are two of the greatest players to ever play the game. It’s possible to respect greatness and root for your team at the same time. This “my guy is the greatest ever, and your guy is [insert constantly repeated insult]” thing is completely unnecessary.
Yeah. Just looking at your own team rather than the opponent. I was pissed we lost, so am I going to be mad at SGA? No I’m mad at the Nuggets for playing shit defense for most of this game.
Dude. Having AG back completely changes your team. We clearly weren’t ready for it in the 1Q.
Helluva game. I hope you or the Spurs take each other to 7.
Last year was a strange one because the MVP race was pretty toxic, but the nuggets had russ so lots of Thunder fans had them as a second favourite team
The level of skill needed to tie this record is insane, and then on top of that you need the luck to never get injured too early into a game or just have too many shots rim out etc. Any of these large consecutive streaks records are crazy when you think about everything that has to come together to make them happen.
It’s a cool streak but if you include playoffs he didn’t break the record. SGA failed to score twenty points three times in the playoffs last year.
that’s not part of the record, so it doesn’t really need to be mentioned. why are yall ppl like this🤣🤣🤣 just look like an ass afterwards. its wilts regular season record
My bad I shot from the hip there after remembering some of his dud playoff games last year. I thought it was just games in a row scoring 20 I didn’t realize playoff games didn’t count. He had a hell of a game tonight didn’t mean to throw shade
my bad as well bro, i was being harsh
Nuggets vs Thunder carrying our glorious league once again 🫡
Big ole’ Serbian Teddy Bear
Wilt was ejected which ended his streak shit would been like 300 games otherwise
An all time duel between Shai and Jokic tonight was a pleasure to watch
How dare you exclude NBA All Star Jamal Murray’s 9⁄23 performance.
Can you turn the static up? I can almost hear him speak
SGA and Jokic are just the artist and architect of the league
The conversation around Jokic is so poisoned on both sides at the moment, and it sucks because he only ever has praise for his opponents.
Real recognises real. As much I hate some of OKC’s dirty plays, they’re a damn good team. Also Jokic never shit talks anyone outside of the game lol.
He’s all class even after being on the receiving end of SGA’s ball chucking tech and two Dort flagrants their past two games against the Thunder
Props to the Joker for the respect given.
Yet losers on this sub will still downplay and hate on Shai lol
Bro just take the compliment lmao
lol “how’s your nose?”
Isn’t there a LeBron consecutive 10 points+ per game stat that just ended that spanned almost his entire career?..
Cal Ripken Jr type record
“Well, he gets 40 FTAs a night!” - NBA subreddit
It’s wild that even Lebron isn’t really close to doing what Shai is doing rn in terms of scoring
If LeBron was his age in today’s league it wouldn’t be close
What
I wonder if he can break Wilt’s 30 point game streak of 65? 🤔
no chance
MashaAllah
Love to see it
for normal people like us, it’s like a streak of running 5 miles everyday. it may not be much, but at some point fatigue will set in and you’re bound to hit a wall and maybe not complete a run. atleast that’s how I see it
Jokic has also said that he could score 20-30 points in a quarter if he really wanted to. But he does a lot more on the court.
Shai’s record is more of an ironman record + Taking enough shots. The most impressive part is how efficient he is in a lot of those games.
Shoutout Jokic for giving props but it is insane that this it the top post in the sub after that game 😭 this sub is cooked
Hey Denver free the Joker! Presti will give you Ihart Morris Peterson and maybe even Wiggins. Let him play with Shai and Nikola T the future of serbian ball.
How many of this is foul shots
He should’ve spent that time talking about how SGA wouldn’t have that streak if NBA terrorist Lu Dort played for another team. So let me just say…
FUCK LU DORT!!!!
praising his dad
If Jokic wanted to be primarily a scorer he could absolutely match/exceed this streak.
Shai shows up every night with the intention of scoring 30
Yeah, I don’t know about all that. You said Shai shows up every night with the intention of scoring 30. Okay… so did Jordan, Kobe, Iverson, Steph, Luka, LeBron, Durant, and a bunch of all-time great scorers. None of those guys have come close to this record.
Jokic averaged 29.6 PPG last season and 28.8 PPG this season. He does score the ball at an extremely high rate.
The fact is, it’s insanely difficult to score at least 20 points in 126 straight games, which is why nobody outside of Wilt has ever done it, outside of SGA.
Thunder fan I’m so sure
this is absolutely something most people dont realise, i wish we could see jokic ever try for this for an extended period of time but shame (sometimes costing the game) he always looks to involve others
Feels like one of those cherrypicked records that relies on luck
Luka or Embid could have had the same thing but if you go out of a game early because of a ankle sprain the records done
Staying healthy is apart of the reason why hes so good
Lebron’s 10 point streak has been glazed (rightfully so) but Shai’s 20 point streak is cherry picked? rightttt
Also i love when yall use “if”/hypotheticals when Shai has actually tied the record lol
Part of being a great player is reliability, it’s not really cherry picking.
You could have talk about his game against the Pacers, where he went to pad his stats but him being healthy enough to score 20 for 126 straight is one of the reason why he is an ATG.
If you think so man
For me Ant and Luka having the most 40 point games this season is far more relevant than a cherry picked 20 point game
Comparing Jokic to SGA is like comparing Westbrook to Steph. One gets triple doubles the other is just better all around and a better winner
That’s just not true….
Dude owns Jokic
lmao no… okc vs denver has always been close games
Such an idiotic take perfectly fit for this sub.
“I apologize, Jokic, but r/nba will continue this endless circlejerk of dickriding you at the expense of SGA when you win or vice versa when he wins. It is rather unfortunate that the top players have this kind of respect for each other, and then the fans stoop to constantly slinging bad faith narratives around just to see what sticks.”
I post this comment, and you prove me right instantly. You just can’t make this stuff up.
Im so sick of this…I wish some people could just watch without hate
I don’t know about that. Life is pretty easy when you are a superstar with a tons of great impactful players on the court, making your life easy like the Thunder have LOL. SGA Would find it tougher where he would be hounded every night and no one to bail him out if he was stuck on a bottom feeder to where they could leave their man and hound SGA all night
Shai does get hounded every night regardless but still gets his, just give his flowers. He’s been special on a 10th seed OKC team
You just outed yourself as not watching the games lol how can you watch tonight’s game (or any game) and say Shai wasn’t getting hounded??
Damn it’s that hard to call this guy good
it’s hurts them so much… goes to show no matter what you do, a hater will always move the goal post. mfs can never give flowers, fck em
This narrative is always so weird to me. You’re essentially criticizing SGA because we have an amazing front office. Also, it is worth mentioning that our team has barely played fully healthy this season, including tonight. It’s also ironic that this is coming from a Spurs fan, which is a team that is also very stacked around Wemby (which in no way is a criticism of Wemby from me, I’m just using your logic).
And another point in SGA’s favor, is that he is kinda your entire offense. Both last season, and pre-trade deadline this year, y’all had some sorry looking offenses when he sat.
/s ?