If you couldn’t stay up late Wednesday night, you unfortunately missed a fascinating battle between the NBA’s last two Finals MVPs.
The Nuggets bested the Warriors 108–105 in a hotly contested matchup I can only hope is a potential playoff preview. And the game within the game, specifically how each team tried to slow down the other’s offensive titan, was ultimately won by Denver.
Stephen Curry and Nikola Jokić—who already have four regular-season MVPs between them—entered Wednesday’s showdown playing at or above the level that has won them the award before. Curry is averaging nearly as many points (30.0) as his unanimous MVP year in 2016 (30.1), while shooting better from the field, three and the free throw line. (That Curry is currently shooting 51.2% from the field and 47.3% from distance is ABSURD. We need to be screaming from the rooftops about this.)
