As the NBA Finals between Nikola Jokic and The Denver Nuggets and Jimmy Butler and The Miami Heat, we are thrilled to bring you this 2023 NBA Finals preview with Michael Porter Jr. and Duncan Robinson. In this clip, Michael Porter Jr. talks about all the noise from ESPN and First Take and Kendrick Perkins and Joel Embiid winning MVP and how Jokic literally doesn’t care.
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The full pod with MPJ and Duncan Robinson should be live in about an hour… Such a good episode. Subscribe and enjoy!
Nikola is the definition of a gamer
I think it's less Abt race and more Abt the fact that American bball fans don't want to root for foreign players cuz they don't bring the entertainment part…they play well on the court and after it's 🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️ U don't get personality, drama, family outings, nothing…but joker and Murray are both great players and hopefully they get a chip and maybe it changes the narrative but I don't see it
JJ…shorten the question please
He’s lying Lowkey cause Malone kept crying.
I think Embiid was MVP based off the regular season because he had a great season, and Jokic had a tough end to season so the recency bias makes sense.
However, I also think Perk’s ridiculous comments made a big difference. No voter wants to be labeled a racist. It’s clear guys like Mark Jackson don’t watch enough small market games so media narrative does matter. Probably 70% of the voters don’t watch enough basketball to form their own opinion.
Really happy for MPJ to be where he is now. Fingers crossed he has a good run of healthy years.
Jj loading up the clip fot the next time perk and him are on 1st take 😂
After winning their first MVP no superstar should care about the MVP. It’s subjective and is based on media narrative. I’m not a Joker fan but u could argue that he deserved this years MVP again but u can make the same argument for many snubs MVPs. This is why if we are comparing individuals nobody should bring up how many MVPs someone has because that’s not valid at all.
MPJ gunna be a superstar soon enough
JJ please destroy perk’s dumbass whenever you get a chance.
When MPJ shoots, it feels like it's going in every time lol. Very cool form.
I feel like the March 4vgame losing streak affected the MVP voting of Jokic and the Perkins Natrative
Close your eyes and MPJ sounds a lot like Jimi Hendrix.
Perkins is a racist and most of the MVPs in nba history are black lmao 😂
hes prolly a ronaldinho fan as well, so for him its natural this kind of game vision, pretty commom between football genius
It's obvious that mvp was not fair embid got it out of pitty. If I was embid I give it back it's shame they put race into this
They all say "i know Joker doesn't care about the MVP buuuut.." the truth is – they don't really understand nor they believe it.
3:18 JJ is probably thinking "F this guy, I spent my whole career honing my shot and he just throws it up??"
He's not as bothered having to deal with Albanians, Ustashe ect. its 1 million times worst. Perkins has Anglo Saxon mentality he doenst know better. If he was raised in Serbian culture he wouldn't say that. But since he speaks English abides by Anglo culture, he is what he is.He is a product of their society.
Lakers are soft TTT .
Playing basketball professionally in the NBA as a side hustle: the Nikola Jokic story.
4:45 woah, that's an interesting nugget. Players don't really talk too much on other people's work ethic like that. Especially if it isn't something that's already been talked about.
"we talkin' about practice?"
Man I cant believe the bulls passed up on Porter. He got injured and no one but Denver believed in him, would be so happy for him to get a ring.
Refreshing to see a non toxic final! Seems like we haven't had one of these for a while…
U really think these players give a damn about what Kendrick Perkins says? He shouldn’t even be on tv speaking tbh
I don't think any MVP in maybe the history of the league, at the very least the modern NBA, has had the same disrespect as Nikola Jokic, it's crazy that his MVP was labelled as racism, i'm glad he's proving it wrong, and i'm glad he's such a humble 2x MVP, not even caring about the award, never saying bad things about anybody, always saying Jamal Murray is the best player, such a great player and great team.
Giannis also is really humble, and even calls himself a role player saying everyone is a role player, he also is very humble despite being probably the 2nd best player in basketball, and not too long ago the best
the back to back MVP before Giannis too, Steph curry, is really humble and great too, and honestly the dream for any NBA team is to be made up of guys with the personality of Steph, Giannis, Jokic, Tim Duncan, Dirk…
Embid cares about individual accolades. He had his boys advocating for him- K. Perkins Mark Jackson who tried playing the race card. Now he's at home watching the finals and hugging his MVP trophy whispering to it , "my precious!".
All these guys inside with hats on
Imagine prime JJ on the Nuggets
Glad to see MPJ healthy!
Jj happy like Joker is his son
Perfect place to make that money and live your dream my MISSOURI brotha 💪🏽
MPJ is the best story of the season. His improvement on defense is a huge part of why Denver is so good now.
JJ sitting here like he wasn’t apart of that “noise” 😂 he’s the one who misconstrued Perk’s point and he’s been ducking him ever since 🤡
What was the first take debockle?
Nikola Jokic is the modern-day Tim Duncan, Super-efficient, reliable and causes no drama.
In the entire history of the NBA, only 12 white players have won MVP. Perkins was trying to keep his name in the headlines, nothing else.
My apologies, MPJ. All this time i thought he and Jokic didn't get along. Like, he never seen doing that thankful gesture (point finger to passer) everytime he scored on Jokic's assist, also 2 times Jokic makes buzzer beater winning shot, MPJ didn't join the celebration (vs Magic n Mavs). Yet, here he is, one of 3 Nuggets i heard so far (Monte Morris n Murray are the other) called Jokic on first name basis instead of Jok or The Joker.
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Dude is high 😂
He could score 50 every night, but that would come at a cost to team success many nights, and that’s why he doesn’t do it. Each assist is worth about 2.2-2.4 points, so add his points and points from assists. Plus he gets a block or two and a steal or two every game.
MJP is rounding into the perfect complement to Jokic and Murray. Each Denver starting 5 signed through 24-25 at least.