Hey, Nikola Jokic heard that panicked, scrambling sound, too.
You know, the stampede of national pundits falling all over one another to try and hop off the Nuggets bandwagon after Jamal Murray’s season-ending knee injury.
“I mean, (I’ve been) an underdog my whole life, to be honest,” the Nuggets’ All-Star center said late Wednesday night after racking up his 15th triple-double of the season to pace Denver’s 123-106 rout of Miami.
“And I’m kind of used to it. It’s (a) normal option for me.”
For a few weeks, the Nuggets — the cow town, flyover, uncool Nuggets — were the darlings of the coastal media cognoscenti. The NBA media king-makers loved Denver’s addition of forward Aaron Gordon and center JaVale McGee at the trade deadline. While the Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets were beat up as all heck, the Nuggets reeled off eight wins in a row coming out of the March 25 deadline day.
Only this past Tuesday, the music stopped.