'Basketball is about teammates,' Nikola Jokic told me the first time I met him at the Nike Hoop Summit in April of 2014. 'When I’m open, I score. When I'm not, I pass. I play basketball as simple as I can. I don't jump high. I don't run fast. I don't think so much about the NBA.'
Flashback to April 8, 2014. Nikola Jokic was getting buckets on everyone at Nike Hoop Summit practice, including Jamal Murray. Now he's the best player in basketball.