The NBA’s Mount Olympus comes with a two-trophy cover charge.
Bill Russell notched 11 titles. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar got six. Tim Duncan landed five. Shaquille O’Neal won four. Hakeem Olajuwon and Wilt Chamberlain? Two apiece.
“The Nuggets kind of drive me a little crazy,” George Karl, the Hall of Fame basketball coach whose resume includes three division titles in Denver from 2004-2013, said of Nikola Jokic when I called him Tuesday.
“You’ve got the best player in the game of basketball and I want him … I mean, I want a Nuggets championship for Denver, yes.