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'He's Beethoven': How Nikola Jokic became the best passer in NBA history

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AN HOUR BEFORE Game 4 of the 2023 Western Conference finals tipped off at Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles, Ognjen Stojakoviu0107 kept his eyes trained on Nikola Jokic.

Stojakoviu0107, the Denver Nuggets' director of development and an assistant coach, stood beyond the 3-point arc, donning black shorts and a long-sleeved gray Nuggets T-shirt on this Monday evening in late May. He fed passes to the team's all-everything center, who is going through a series of warmup drills against 7-footer Boniface N'Dong, a retired Senegalese center who is now a Nuggets player development coach.