Deandre Ayton, Jusuf Nurkic, Portland Trail Blazers, Phoenix Suns (Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images)
In the first two games of the Phoenix Suns semifinals series against the Denver Nuggets, Deandre Ayton has made quick work exposing the Portland Trail Blazers, and more specifically Jusuf Nurkic‘s, defensive flaws. Nikola Jokic put on a clinic against Nurkic and the Blazers defense, bolstering those that voted for him as the league’s MVP.
While Jokic is in a special class of players, in which no defender can truly stop them, he looks much more human against Ayton and the Suns compared to the ethereal form he displayed against the Blazers.