Keeler: Nikola Jokic’s championship window with Nuggets? George Karl’s got plan to save it

Keeler: Nikola Jokic’s championship window with Nuggets? George Karl’s got plan to save it

The NBA’s Mount Olympus comes with a two-trophy cover charge. Bill Russell notched 11 titles. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar got six. Tim Duncan landed five. Shaquille O’Neal won four. Hakeem Olajuwon and Wilt Chamberlain? Two apiece. “The Nuggets kind of drive me a little crazy,” George Karl, the Hall of Fame basketball coach whose resume includes three division titles in Denver from 2004-2013, said of Nikola Jokic when I called him Tuesday. “You’ve got t…

KSE and the ticking clock of Nikola Jokic - Denver Stiffs

Tick … tock … tick … tock … The Nikola Jokic clock tick’s heavily in the Ball Arena executive suites. Stan and Josh Kroenke are feeling something they have never experienced in the 25 years Stan has outright owned professional sports teams: The immense pressure of having an NBA team with an undeniable superstar who is the best player in the world. There is absolutely nothing like the pressure to win that comes with a superstar. It is unique to t…

Learn more: Nikola Jokic beats his own record and makes history in the NBA The Denver Nuggets star, Nikola Jokic, is in a more than complicated position, also for the interests of his team. And it is that the twice MVP of the NBA and considered one of the most complete players in the league, had an injury that will prevent him from playing the rest of the season. So the near future in international basketball is involved in uncertainty. Especial…