For 6 minutes and 26 seconds on Thursday night, the Nuggets were a dream team. Poetry in motion, with pizzazz.

Nuggets' Nikola Jokic has the most hilarious answer to breaking Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's NBA record originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Nikola Jokic is one-of-one on the basketball court, yes, but the Denver Nuggets ' superstar center is also his own man off the court.

Follow along with the best of a five-game night in the NBA, headlined by Cade Cunningham and Jaylen Brown facing off in Pistons-Celtics.

Indications through the first quarter of the NBA season have the MVP race shaping up to be a showdown between Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokić with everyone else vying for third place.

The Houston Rockets have played close games with basically every one of the top contenders in the Western Conference. While there are some teams they haven't me

The Nuggets' depth is again being tested. Could the team make a trade with the Clippers for Chris Paul and Kris Dunn?

Bruce Brown explained that a three-year, $50 million contract with Los Angeles was nearly finalized after the Nuggets' championship season.

Analysis: Memphis is one of the 80 percent free-throw shooting teams, with Ja Morant shooting 92.4 percent to begin the season. On the flip side, Morant is shooting only 19.4 percent from 3 on 4.8 attempts per game. No player who has played at least 10 games in a season has ever made worse than 20 percent from 3 on at least 4.0 attempts per game.