Nikola Jokić is the best basketball player on the planet, and he was also, importantly, the NBA's best player this season. But he is also almost certainly going to fall short in MVP voting to Shai Gilgeous-Alexander for reasons that were on full display in Game 5.

Nikola Jokić lived up to his nickname on Friday, arriving at the Ball Arena wearing a Joker-inspired purple and green suit before helping the Denver Nuggets to a dramatic, overtime 113-104 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 3 of their playoff series.

May, and we still do not yet (officially) know who the 2025 NBA MVP is. The likely winner is Oklahoma City Thunder star guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who helped pace the Thunder to a stellar 68-win regular season campaign.

With the series tied at 2-2, the Oklahoma City Thunder will play host to the ... Led by three-time MVP and former Finals MVP Nikola Jokić, has been nothing short of sensational through the ...

Wiggins and Wallace combined to shoot eight-for-15, including six-for-nine from deep. That made them outcasts in a sloppy night. They made shots, went hard to the glass (11 rebounds combined) and were aggressors on defense, to the point they kept Dort, the team’s defensive ace, on the bench.

Denver Nuggets star center Nikola Jokić has done it all in the last few seasons. He has won three of the last four Most Valuable Player awards, winning in the 2020-21, 2021-22, and 2023-24 seasons, has been selected to the All-Star team in each of the last seven seasons and perhaps,

OKC is the better team ... only to put their foot down in the final frame. Nikola Jokić was not especially great by his lofty standards — 20 points, 16 rebounds, six assists and eight turnovers ...

Gordon wasn't wrong about officials catching Jokić in the act. The Nuggets' big man fouled out of the contest in the third quarter, essentially ending any hope of a Denver comeback. Jokić finished the game with 17 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists.