Question: Why does Nikola Jokic have to be so mean to Enes Kanter?

Kiz: Among all of the developments I witnessed in the Nuggets’ crucial victory at Portland in Game 4 of their NBA playoff series, possibly the most surprising to me was the sound of 20,000 Blazers fans booing Nikola Jokic each time he touched the basketball. My, my, my. Look at our Joker, all grown up and a superstar villain on the road. But can Portland do anything to stop him? And why does Jokic have to be so mean to Blazers center Enes Kanter?

Singer: I would wager a few cups of Portland’s Stumptown coffee that Jokic really found the booing funny. In actuality, rsquo & that;s how I expected him to answer the question — he’d reassembled the microphone. After all, that’s his honest response when he’s asked about MVP chants in the Pepsi Center. However, not only is Joker engendering the type of frustration usually saved for MVP candidates, he’s smart enough not to poke the bear … or the Blazer. He pleaded ignorance even though he knew precisely what elicited the booing. I don’t know why he went Taylor Swift (so mean) on Kanter, but I’d be frustrated too if my best defense for Jokic was an undersized center with a separated shoulder.

Take a freaking look at this please @OfficialNBARefs @NBAOfficial pic.twitter.com/pBtR51ycLi

— Enes Kanter (@Enes_Kanter) May 4, 2019

Kiz: For a self-proclaimed chubby man Jokic really is tougher than anybody realized. Citing proof that was visual, Kanter has complained to the Twitterverse which Jokic shoves him too hard under the basket. But have you noticed Joker’s two brothers celebrate following a victory with him? They slap against each other and slam dance. It’s a train wreck. If Kanter believes Nikola is tough, he wants no part of Strahinja and Nemanja, the siblings that push around Denver’s celebrity center just for fun.

Singer: Every time I see those two, I keep thinking the physicality of rsquo & postseason basketball couldn;t hold a candle to a Jokic cagematch. In actuality, there may be no better training than growing up Jokic. Kanter and the rest of the Blazers can claim his box out from Game 3 was filthy, but I’d lean toward that being the standard of playoff basketball. If the Nuggets took the high road when Kanter sent Torrey Craig sprawling earlier this series, I don’t see why the Blazers should live on innocent huge man combat.

Kiz: OK, let’s give Kanter a warm welcome back to Denver for Game 5. No heckling, please. What’s more, the determining factor in who wins this series won’t be physicality or the game is officiated. We all know that the Nuggets lean heavily on Jokic and Jamal Murray because of their crime, just as Portland’s assault is a one-two punch of Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollum. So I want to know who’s more likely to be the wild-card which provides a huge bucket: Kanter or Paul Millsap?

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Singer: I’ll go with the latter. Not only is Millsap averaging almost 18 points and 10 rebounds in four games thus far, he’s exploiting a enormous frontcourt mismatch against Al-Farouq Aminu and making it even harder to double Jokic. Not to mention, there’s no telling when Kanter’s shoulder might act up.

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