NBA star Nikola Jokic issued a savage response to analyst Kendrick Perkins.
The Serbian is in the hunt to clinch his third successive NBA regular season MVP award, but faces stiff competition from Joel Embiid and former two-time winner of the award Giannis Antetokounmpo. He certainly has the numbers to help his case as the centre averaged 24.5 points, 11.8 rebounds and 9.8 assists for the Denver Nuggets, who topped the Western Conference.
Should Jokic, 28, win it again this year, it would mark his third in a row, the first player since Larry Bird (1983-86) to achieve the feat. But Perkins, who became an NBA champion with the Boston Celtics in 2008, claimed the Nuggets would be in for a tough series against the Minnesota Timberwolves in round one of the NBA Playoffs.
