DENVER — Nikola Jokić appeared trapped. Check that: Jokić was trapped. With a minute left in overtime and the Nuggets clinging to a two-point lead, Jokić picked up his dribble 11 feet from the rim, boxed in by the long arms of Victor Wembanyama. He faked a pass to shed an incoming double team, spun, switched pivot feet—the “Sombor Shuffle” as it’s known in the Rockies—and launched a skyscraping fadeaway over Wembanyama’s eight-foot reach.
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