Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokić is widely viewed as the current best player in the NBA, a title gifted by fans and analysts that used to be held by Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James.
While James may not be viewed as the best player in the league at this stage in his career, he is still one of the NBA’s top players and garners plenty of respect from his peers, including Jokić.
Before a Lakers-Nuggets matchup Saturday in which James entered the night nine points away from reaching 40,000 in his career, Jokić made sure to get in some friendly trash talk as he greeted the Lakers star prior to the opening tip.
