After hitting a trick shot that would’ve done Larry Bird proud to beat Dallas at the buzzer, Nikola Jokic pulled on his “Baywatch” boxers in the Pepsi Center locker room and acted as if his heroics were as pure dumb luck as buying a winning lotto ticket with the last dollar in his pocket.
“Lucky shot,” said Jokic, after his one-handed, fade-away, no-look leaner from 10 feet hit nothing but net and ignited pandemonium among Denver fans that had forgotten how fun basketball can be.
This no-freaking-way miracle gave the Nuggets a 100-99 victory Thursday night in a game they had absolutely no business winning, but did because the Joker can’t help it if he is the most unlikely basketball superstar on the planet.