The NBA All-Star Weekend festivities are currently taking place in Los Angeles, and Denver Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokic is among the participants in Sunday’s main event: the All-Star Game. Jokic was voted the starter for the game despite missing nearly a month due to a knee injury, and it remains to be seen whether the Nuggets star will put a little more effort into the game than in past years.
Also in attendance at the festivities this weekend was former NBA big man DeMarcus Cousins, Jokic’s teammate for a year with the Nuggets, and recently, the star weighed in on who would win in a one-on-one game between him and Jokic if both were in their prime.
“I think it’s an 11-11 tie, because I don’t think either one of us can stop the other one,” Cousins said, according to Ricardo Sandoval of Newsweek, formerly of Newsweek on Twitter.
In fact, neither Jokic nor Cousins are known as lock down defenders, but both possess supernatural offensive skills that can torment opponents.
Jokic shouldn’t necessarily be considered an isolated, one-on-one kind of player, having been criticized once this year for kicking out Peyton Watson in a last-second playoff game against the Dallas Mavericks, rather than doing so himself.
However, he is virtually unstoppable around the basket, and has turned himself into one of the league’s best three-point shooters.
Cousins, meanwhile, was a terror in his own right with the Sacramento Kings, intimidating opponents in the paint, and showing the ability to run the floor better than most big men in the league, as well as a feathery touch from the perimeter.
This will definitely be a fun matchup to watch.
In any case, the All-Star Game is scheduled to begin on Sunday at 5:00 PM ET.
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