Born on February 19, 1995, in Sombor, Serbia, Nikola Jokic is a Serbian professional basketball player who plays as a Center for the Denver Nuggets and is playing in his 10th NBA season, as of November 2024. Jokic began his professional career with the Serbian team Mega Basket in 2012 and played there for two seasons before declaring for the NBA draft. The Nuggets selected Jokic with the 41st overall pick in the second round of the 2014 NBA draft.
Jokic is well known for his all-around skills as a center, including his shooting and rebounding abilities. His exceptional post-game and playmaking ability has led the Nuggets to the first-ever NBA championship in 2023.
How many career points does Nikola Jokic have?
The three-time NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) has scored a total of 14,436 career points in his NBA regular season career and will continue to score more as he still has a lot of years left in him.
The Nuggets superstar has been named an NBA All-Star six times consecutively from 2019-2024. He is the NBA Western Conference finals MVP of 2023 and the NBA's Most Valuable Player (MVP) for the 2021, 2022 and 2024. He is the first Nuggets player to receive the award.
The European center is the lowest draft pick in the NBA winning the MVP award and is the first center since Shaquille O’Neal in 2000 to win the NBA MVP award.
What is Nikola Jokic's career high?
Nikola Jokic played a career-high 50-point game against the Sacramento Kings on February 6, 2021. Plus, Jokic has posted a 40-point game 22 times in the NBA, as of November 2024. All these impressive stats have forced the Denver Nuggets to offer the Serbian player one of the highest contract extensions of all time in NBA history.
Nikola Jokic's Playoff points
Since the career statistics of NBA players do not take into consideration the points scored in the postseason, those numbers are not recorded in the above statistics. Joikc has been to the playoffs with the Nuggets on five occasions to date. In those five years, he put up 352 points in 14 games, 464 points in 19 games, 298 points in 10 games, and 155 points in 5 games, and his best-ever performance came in the 2022-23 season where he scored 600 points in 20 games leading the team to their first-ever NBA Championship.
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FAQs
A. Nikola Jokic was selected with the 41st pick in the second-round of the 2014 NBA draft by the Denver Nuggets.
A. Yes. Jokic scored 50 points in one game in his career. It came against the Sacramento Kings on February 6th, 2021 when he scored exactly 50 points.
A. Nikola Jokić has 22 games with 40+ points, as of November 20, 2024.
A. The Serbian player is 6 feet 11 inches tall and weighs 129 kg or 284 lb, this physical attribute has helped Jokic to play with more physicality which we can see most players are using in the modern NBA.
A. Nikola Jokic has two brothers, Nemanja Jokic and Strahinja Jokic. Both have basketball as their background and are a decade older than Jokic.
