Now that he has to put on the shelf at home beneath his horse-racing medals, where exactly does Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokić rank in the all-timer debates? Is he already a top-20 player? Can he get ? What seems to be the likely endgame when we look back two decades from now? Advertisement It’s perhaps a rough time to have this discussion . But let’s pull back the camera, look at the bigger picture and ask how high a pedestal Jokić may land on when he finally hangs up his sneakers.
Points even then. Needless to say, his last three seasons have seen him rack up a mountain of other accomplishments. In fact, when I updated the Points, All-time Leaders Rank Player GP 1 LeBron James 859 2 Michael Jordan 750 3 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 660 4 Tim Duncan 504 5 Karl Malone 504 6 Wilt Chamberlain 499 7 Larry Bird 488 8 Magic Johnson 487 9 Bill Russell 472 10 Shaquille O'Neal 460 11 Kobe Bryant 457 12 Kevin Durant 374 13 James Harden 356 14 Oscar Robertson 345 15 David Robinson 335 16 Kevin Garnett 324 17 George Mikan 320 18 Bob Pettit 318 19 Hakeem Olajuwon 316 20 Jerry West 316 21 * NIKOLA JOKIC * 308 22 Giannis...
points isn’t perfect; it almost certainly overrates and Karl Malone and underrates Michael Jordan and Kevin Garnett, for instance. But in the bigger picture, the important themes for Jokić’s place in the debate holds. In particular, it’s easy to think Jokić could just sort of glide into a top-10 spot from here, but that’s not true. One thing