Awful Announcing
"You guys won. You’re the champion. You have unequivocally one of the two best players in the world and most people think the best player in the world. The grievances? Get over it, all of them. Get over it!”
In 2018, ESPN accompanied discussion of Nikola Jokić's contract extension with highlights of the Blazers' Jusuf Nurkić.
"Give them their meaningless ring and get back to the NBA being interesting again."
"I can go home and sleep peacefully."
"Nobody likes their job. Maybe they do. They're lying."
"IT'S OVER! AT LAST, THE LONG WAIT IS OVER! AFTER 47 YEARS, THE DENVER NUGGETS CAN FINALLY CALL THEMSELVES NBA CHAMPIONS!"
"Jokić isn’t known for having some kind of dominant post game."
"We shouldn’t have to be waiting to the NBA Finals to be able to appreciate Jokić."
"When you have that, it allows the offense to flow seamlessly, pretty much like the Arkansas River coming off the eastern slope of the continental divide."
"I think they've done a horrible job, but I understand why."
"Mark's being kind to some of those fans. They were, some of those fans were clowns at the game."
"I think he did it intentionally."
"One of the things I’ve been on the whole year is, I’ve been forcing [Nikola] Jokić into conversations."
"The Nuggets' problem is that they're not respected, they're just not talked about."
"You didn’t play. You don’t understand athletic mortality."
Monday should have been the Nuggets’ ultimate coronation, but instead, the moment was largely overshadowed by the Lakers’ defeat
"Because if he played in any other city, this guy would be thought of not just a 75 -- a Top 25 player in the history of our great game."
"You win Game 1 of the playoffs and all everybody talked about was the Lakers.”
"Absolute mistake made by me."
Charles Barkley said last week that this voter "shouldn’t get a vote.”
"If that had been a regular fan, he would have got tossed."
"Do you think the fan's the owner of the Suns make any difference?" "I don't give a s***. I really don't care. ...I think it's crazy that Nikola got a technical foul."
"Say whatever you want, Perk completely shifted a national discussion."
"I have a vote [for MVP]... I'm going to remember this moment."
