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Denver’s moment
The best basketball player on the planet is a 7-foot Serbian who was a second-round project.
Nikola Jokic led the Denver Nuggets to the NBA title, securing the franchise’s first championship in Monday’s Game 5.
Jokic and the Nuggets went 16-4 in these playoffs; only the Warriors with Kevin Durant, when they went 16-1 lost fewer games since the postseason went to best-of-seven series in every round.