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Draymond torches KAT for defensive effort against Jokić
Draymond Green never is shy about voicing his basketball opinions. On Wednesday the Warriors star offered his thoughts on New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns’ defensive effort against Denver Nuggets big man Nikola Jokić.
Two years after he won an NBA title, Nikola Jokić views the surging New York Knicks as a 'top-5 candidate' to end their 52-year championship drought.
Scoring has been climbing as of late, but this year the stat inflation has revealed itself in a more subtle way.
The New York Knicks downed the Denver Nuggets 122-112 on Wednesday behind another tremendous night from Jalen Brunson. Brunson had his sixth game with 30
Anthony Edwards scored 34 points with nine assists to lead Minnesota. In the process, he became Minnesota's franchise leader in 3-pointers made, jumping past Karl-Anthony Towns with 976 career triples. Edwards also set the mark with some flash, nailing this 3 from the center-court logo:
While Shai Gilgeous-Alexander continues to lead the NBA MVP rankings, Nikola Jokic's triple-double average can't be ignored.
With the NBA MVP race heating up, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokić are leading the list, followed by Giannis Antetokounmpo and Karl-Anthony Towns. Anthony Davis also makes an entry ...
The Athletic's Law Murray believes Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony ... more. Towns is averaging 25.1 points per game, a five-year high and the second-most by a center in the NBA behind Nikola ...
Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo led all players in the final fan voting (4,435,266) to represent the Eastern Conference for the ninth time in his career. Denver Nuggets forward Nikola Jokić earned his seventh All-Star nod as the lead vote-getter in the Western Conference (3,724,344).
Joining Wembanyama as a West reserve are Jaren Jackson Jr., Jalen Williams, Anthony Edwards, Anthony Davis, James Harden and Alperen Şengün. The seven reserves from the East are Jaylen Brown, Pascal Siakam, Darius Garland, Evan Mobley, Cade Cunningham, Damian Lillard and Tyler Herro, as selected by the conference’s coaches.
At the beginning of the season, Maxey, Joel Embiid and Paul George were all expected to be among the players selected.