If you enjoy watching the best basketball player in the world go to work, what are you waiting for?
You don’t need to wait until Oct. 19, when Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr. will make their highly anticipated returns in Utah for the Nuggets’ season opener. If you, like some of us at The Denver Post, need to get your basketball fix, we can’t emphasize enough: EuroBasket will scratch that itch.
This iteration of the European championship features three of the top five basketball players in the world, full stop. Two-time NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo , generational star Luka Doncic and Denver’s own humble two-time MVP, Nikola Jokic , are slated for, at minimum, five group stage games followed by the knockout rounds.
If we were the gambling lot, there’d be a week’s worth of pay suggesting that next season’s MVP will come out of that trio. Jokic, the first back-to-back-to-back MVP since Larry Bird in the mid-1980s? The audacity! What kind of Rakija have we been slugging? As if his tantalizing highlights populating social media weren’t evidence enough, the word from the Nuggets is that their franchise superstar is in the best shape of his life. They’ve sent various members of the team’s performance staff over to Europe to keep tabs on him, and other front office members will be there as Serbia inevitably reaches the knockout rounds in Berlin.
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