Even after three MVP awards, Nikola Jokic has continued to find new ways to not only impress, but create NBA history. 

The Denver Nuggets center has fundamentally changed the game of basketball since he first found is footing in the league. He's the typical oppressive presence in the paint that a center should be, making easy layups and boxing out his opponents on his way to the hoop for a 56.9% field goal percentage, but he does so much more than that.

There's never been a player quite like Nikola Jokic. As talented of a scorer as he is and as great he is at grabbing boards, he's also possibly the greatest playmaker in the game today.

To put his play into a positional designation, Jokic is a "point center." The Nuggets offense runs almost entirely through him, using him not only to set screens but to act as a focal point on the floor to move the ball through.

His teammates can toss the ball to Jokic on the inside and he can put his elite court vision to work and kick it back out to one of his teammates while the defense crashes on him.

It's a style of play that the NBA simply hasn't been prepared for and it's that style of play that has made a MVP, NBA champion and one of the best players of his generation. 

It's also the style of play that allowed him to make even more NBA history. Jokic finished the season with 12.9 rebounds and 10.7 assists per game, becoming the first player history to lead the league in both average rebounds and average assists since the 1969-70 season, where the league leader was determined by averages, not totals.

The closest comparison to Jokic's 2025-26 season is NBA legend Wilt Chamberlain, who led the league in both assists and rebounds in 1967-68, when the league leader was determined by totals, not averages.

The only name that can stand up to what Jokic has accomplished is an icon of the NBA, and even then the way their stats are counted isn't entirely the same. 

It's been a season of outstanding performances in the NBA, but it's also been a season bogged down by the NBA's 65-game minimum to qualify for end-of-season awards, which leaves out a number of great players. 

Interestingly, Jokic finished the season with exactly 65 games played, making him eligible for accolades like All NBA teams and MVP. 

Considering that Jokic continues to accomplish things that no one else has, his path to another MVP should be wide open.