The two-time league MVP certainly made up for falling short on copping a third individual award in succession, fronting the Nuggets to the first NBA title in franchise history.
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“It’s why basketball is a fun sport, It’s a live thing. You can’t say this is going to happen until it happens,” Jokic said afterward on ABC. “It’s good, the job is done and we can go home now.” Instead, Jokic became the first player in NBA annals to lead all playoff performers in points, rebounds and assists for an entire postseason with one dominant performance after another.
“We are approaching it as a must-win game. I know it’s a big opportunity, and I think everybody knows,” Jokic said Sunday. That shooting display generated only one trademark “Bang!” on ABC from longtime Knicks voice Mike Breen, who became the third basketball play-by-play announcer to call at least 100 NBA Finals games on TV or radio, behind only Chick Hearn and Johnny Most .
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