An hour after watching Steph Curry and Klay Thompson take turns playing Jesus Shuttlesworth, Nikola Jokic turned to the gospel of Shuttlesworth’s father, Jake.
“Did you listen to Denzel Washington, when he was talking?” the Nuggets’ star center said late Tuesday night at his locker inside the Pepsi Center following a 142-111 home thrashing at the hands of Golden State. “(He said), ‘You need to fail, and fail big.’ I think that’s the right word.”
The Joker was close, attempting to explain the Nuggets’ toughest setback of the season through a quote a speech Washington, the iconic actor whose roles included Jake Shuttlesworth in the hoops-centric film “He Got Game,” gave at Dillard University in 2015.