Nikola Jokic January Highlights | Kia NBA Western Conference Player of the Month

1.16, 1.16, 10 seconds to go. Two-man game. Gotta go. Jamal Murray to Jokic. Jokic backs up for the win! Right passing angle. Jamal Murray delivers the pass perfectly. Joker, cover pretty tightly right here. Takes a step back. Three. Ingram steps into a contested three over Gordon. McCollum trying to save. Here comes Jokic. Look at that! This guy is unbelievable. This is seven-footer, folks. Splitting two defenders and getting an and-one opportunity. No one getting in front of him there. Just trying to stay on the side. Murray navigating. Murray to Jokic. Jokic put it up and in! Nikola Jokic with his 25th point. Out called. Murray and Jokic. Peanut butter and jelly going to work in a sticky situation. Watch. You finally get two guys just go. And Murray for good. Jokic right there at the dotted line. His little pick-and-roll, hard roll. That's where Bryant heard him the other game. That was Bryant at 29, Saturday, Sacramento. And that's the 101st dunk. Same thing. Spin backwards. Look at all the bodies come over there. Christie losing. Side of Gordon. 22 games now where he's been in double figures. Good player. Jokic coming in. Over the shoulder to Gordon! What a beauty! Here comes Rudy. There goes... That fourth slot. Well, he's got a motor that just doesn't stop. But he's unable to put it down. Jokic, the bobble. And the finger roll. Just a thing of beauty from Jokic. A little bit overly aggressive, but another look. Stand at that last sequence. There's Jokic going coast to coast. Just steps right by Nance and finger rolls the ball in the basket. Yeah, but Jokic is, you know, I think he sold himself that he didn't hit because he stepped back. What a pass again by Nikola Jokic in stride. In the early going, he does exactly what we were talking about. Look at this. Perfect bounce pass. And back comes Jokic. Whips it to Gordon. Did you see that pass? Man. See, I don't get that with Mike Green. He doesn't have that in his game. How about this pass, though? The look away. See what Blackwell wants to do. He wants to get it to Jokic. Good idea. Jokic has been hot. Baseline against Billy. Dump it under to Zeke. Oh, spoon feeding. It's just going to go up. Couple bodies railed. He'll dump it down. Daniels fell asleep. Zeke went right where he's supposed to go. In the middle, your man leaves. Get to the rim. Get underneath there. Four and a half remaining. They're in the first half. Jokic having his way with the Wolves. Nasri trying to be physical. Trying to make every shot tough. This guy is just so skilled. His finishing ability. You know, look at the release point. As I said, it takes him time. Here's Jokic. Just quick drive. Missed the shot. Got it back. Puts it in. And a foul. Another basket. Another rebound. Three-point opportunity. Unbelievable timing. So, he's just attacking. And listen, Nasri is an excellent offensive player. He's got challenges defensively. The Nuggets know it. The Nuggets know that this is a team that struggles with paint points. They booked up to 16th. So, Michael Malone was pretty happy about that. Here goes Porter. Lays it in with a foul. Right here. Jamal Murray doing a good job on Lillard. Closing that space. Getting over that screen. Nicole Jokic cleans it up. And Michael Porter, Jr. takes it all the way in. 40. They get 53-45. Jokic pinned. By his man. And down he goes. And there is a foul. The inside official didn't call. The outside official did. But just spins on Anderson. And see Rudy with that left arm just pushing. Watch the left arm of Rudy. Just shoves Joker out of the way. 85-76. Borden way short. And Brown rebounds. And Christian with a nice play on the back. Christian Nicholas Brown with the dunk. Grabs the old board. Gives it to the Joker. And then no one's guarding me. I'm going to cut to the basket. Christian Brown throws it down for the Denver Nuggets. What a play from CB. Orlando hasn't made a field goal since the 7.09 mark. Jokic has it. Give it to Bones. Bones. And he puts it in. Jokic another brilliant assist. Put it right on the hand. In the NBA. And Nicole Jokic up to Bones Highland. That's a mean. As Murray around the corner. Back hands it to Jokic. He's got five to shoot. In on Carter. Little step back. And he's got it. So, Nicole Jokic on the board. Nicole Jokic patient at the free throw line. Takes what Carter Jr. gives them. And makes a tough fade away right there. At the other end. Converts. Quick outlet to Gordon. Room service. And two fly-bys. Joker is. This is after a made shot. Coast-to-coast pass. He's got 15 here in the first half. Westbrook missed it. Baseball pass to Porter. And he puts it away. Porter steaming. A water polo pass right there. There's got to be. Serbian water polo team has had to have called him and said, Can you swim? Serbian water polo team. One of the great water polo teams. 31 point win last night. The biggest margin of the season for the Denver Nuggets. Tough cut. And Jokic gets his ninth assist. So, they take Murray out. Give him a breather. Garland just had his back turned to him. Clippers just got off the road. They didn't play at all. And there's Jokic getting it to go. Nine assists and five rebounds. And Caldwell-Polk. That's the assist here. Lighting up the first half. It looks like they're starting to try to here in the second. Now Jokic guarded by Anderson. And under to Gordon. And Gordon puts it in. So, good news. Aaron Gordon on the board. What can you do? Obviously, it's a team effort defensively. But shout out Aaron Gordon. Another assist for Jokic. Bruce Brown scores his 20th point. Nicole Jokic gets the one-on-one matchup. And Bruce Brown, he's had a couple of those cuts the last few games. Where he's been able to get easy buckets off of just a little give and go with Nicole Jokic. Celtics made 13 free throws as Brown has a nice pass. You like that, huh? I thought he was shooting it, didn't you? There's that pass to Brown. I mean, that's a pass right over the top of the defensive player of the year. If you're open, you will hit the ball. Here's Jamal Murray, coach, who is just getting better and better. Look at that diamond. Recognition. He'll have a chance at three. Jokic didn't have it in his hands very long. This guy is special. Look at this play. Touch pass to Aaron Gordon. And then Aaron Gordon has been so much better. Jokic, another great diamond. Wow, that fooled the defense. And Bruce Brown underneath gets the easy two. There was a hairline of space. He put it right there. He'll make the pass. Corner three, Garrett Temple has come on. Jokic rebound. Nuggets. Chugga Luggin. Bounce pass. Brown. And Brown. Christian, when he was out, was he always will run the lane, the wings. Got that one. Got the tap on the head by Temple and gets the and one at the end. Now they clear it out here for the Joker. Catch and shoot. So, if you're Nikola Jokic, double comes. You force him to be a pass for KCP. Johnny on the spot. Jamal Murray scoreless in the first half was part of it. And a lot of that was taken to Daniels as Joker beats the shot clock. That was very close. To be able to see by the LEDs, boy, that was close. But it was late. A couple of home games there. Now Jokic. Jokic in the lane. Rolls and hooks it up and in. Jokic has it. He puts it in. 13th assist for Nikola Jokic. Watch the way Jokic, too. Looking at the basket so that the Magic think he's going to maybe shoot that shot. He finds Zeke Nagy down low and Zeke does a good job of walling off Wagner there.