Jokic joked with media after being asked about Clark.
Caitlin Clark went on national television Sunday night and said what a lot of basketball fans have been thinking all season long.
The Indiana Fever star appeared on NBC's "Basketball Night in America" pregame show ahead of Denver's matchup with the Golden State Warriors and called Nikola Jokic "the best player in the world."
She talked about how nobody does what he does at his size, how he finds the right pass every single time and how averaging a triple-double in back-to-back years is something most players could never dream of pulling off.
After the Nuggets blew out the Warriors 116-93 at Ball Arena, a reporter relayed Clark's comments to Jokic during his postgame press conference.
His response was about as Jokic as it gets.
"We have the same agent," Jokic said with a grin. "That's why she said it."
The Numbers Speak For Themselves
The joke landed, but what Clark said wasn't exactly controversial.
Jokic is putting up 27.9 points, 12.9 rebounds and 10.8 assists per game this season, and he's on pace to become the first player in NBA history to lead the league in both rebounds and assists in the same year.
That kind of stat line hasn't been seen since the Wilt Chamberlain era, and doing it at 31 years old on a team that has dealt with injuries all season makes it even more wild.
Sunday's game was another example of how easy he makes everything look, as he finished with 25 points, 15 rebounds and eight assists while Denver pulled away in the second half after trailing by 13 in the second quarter.
And the agency connection Clark and Jokic share is real.
They're both represented by Excel Sports Management, the powerhouse agency founded by Jeff Schwartz.
But anyone watching the NBA this season knows the praise had nothing to do with business and everything to do with what Jokic has been doing on the court.
Denver Rolling at the Right Time
The win gave the Nuggets their sixth straight victory and moved them to 48-28 on the season, good for fourth in the Western Conference and two games ahead of both the Minnesota Timberwolves and Houston Rockets.
After missing nearly a month earlier this year with a knee injury, Jokic has been on a tear since coming back and has looked like the best version of himself heading into the stretch run.
Golden State fell to 36-39 with the loss and continues to struggle without Stephen Curry, who has now missed 25 straight games with a right knee issue.
The Warriors have gone 9-16 during this most recent stretch without him and are clinging to the 10th seed in the West.
Classic Jokic
The whole exchange between Clark's praise and Jokic's response is a pretty good snapshot of who he is as a player and a person.
Clark broke down exactly what makes him impossible to guard, talking about how teams can throw double coverage at him and he'll just find the open man every time, and Jokic responded by crediting his agent instead of himself.
He's a three-time MVP who just passed Oscar Robertson for the second-most triple-doubles in NBA history, and yet he still treats the spotlight like something he'd rather hand off to someone else.
With seven games left in the regular season and Denver riding momentum, the Nuggets look like they could be a really tough out once the playoffs arrive.