Jokic is leading the league in rebounds and assists while averaging a career-high 29.6 points per game on the most efficient shooting splits of his life.

Jokic limped to the locker room with a knee injury as the Nuggets finished a first half in Miami on Monday.

Anthony Black scored a career-high 38 points, Desmond Bane made two free throws with 6.9 seconds left and the Orlando Magic overcame another huge triple-double by Nikola Jokic to beat the Denver Nuggets 127-126 on Saturday night.

Kobe Bryant? “I can use that name with Anthony Edwards,” Nuggets coach David Adelman says.

The No.1 problem is that the two-man game has not been working. This has always been a Nuggets’ constant, like Arnold saying, “What you talkin’ about, Willis?” in “Diff’rent Strokes.” You expect to see it in every episode, every game.

Nikola Jokic’s two highest-scoring games of his career have been in Denver’s last two home games against the Timberwolves.