With the reigning MVP in the locker room nursing a knee injury, the reigning defensive player of the year stole the show late.
As Denver's Nikola Jokic sat and watched from the locker room, Utah's Rudy Gobert dominated on both ends of the court in the fourth quarter as the Jazz took down the Nuggets 122-110 on Tuesday night.
In what was supposed to be a battle of two of the best big men in the game, that game plan was derailed when Gobert and Jokic knocked knees late in the second quarter. While Gobert remembers not feeling much, Jokic crumpled to the floor while writhing in pain.