While the NBA season is still young, Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic has raced out of the gate as the early favorite to win the league's MVP award—the fourth of his career—and the Serbian big man demonstrated exactly why that's the case in a pivotal moment during the Nuggets' 119-115 win over the Golden State Warriors in an NBA Cup group-play game at Ball Arena on Tuesday.
Trailing by two points with under two minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, Jokic brought the ball up as Warriors guard Stephen Curry defended him. Jokic began to back down the smaller Curry on the wing until the Nuggets big man suddenly pivoted and delivered a perfect head fake that had Curry searching in all different directions for the ball's location.
