“I can defend Joker now,” Olden Polynice said on the TFU podcast. He added that Jokic was “nothing more than Bill Laimbeer,” then corrected himself: “a slightly better version of Bill Laimbeer.” He also admitted Jokic deserved his MVP, while arguing Embiid should have won it the year Jokic got it.
For the record, Bill Laimbeer won two NBA titles with the Detroit Pistons over a fourteen-season career. Polynice also said Shaquille O’Neal and Hakeem Olajuwon would dominate Jokic: “You’re not better than Hakeem, Joker. Shaq is destroying you.”
A challenge thrown at a three-time MVP, champion and Finals MVP. The announcer at a Brussels council sports hall thought the announcement lacked staging.
You don’t throw a challenge like that sitting in an armchair. You cut all the lights. Mesdames et messieurs, dames en heren, in the left corner, fifteen seasons, five franchises, a podcast microphone… Olden… Polynice! [jingle] In the right corner, three MVPs, and an empty chair because he wasn’t invited. Make some noise. That’s a moment. What we just heard was a conversation with headphones on. I give everyone the same treatment, a veteran throwing a challenge or an MVP who doesn’t answer. At our place, the caretaker would only give me half the lights, but I’d still make the entrance. Just saying.
Jokic’s career averages stand at 22.2 points, 11.1 rebounds and 7.5 assists. No game date has been announced.
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