MINUTI	35
POENI	28
SKOKOVI	4
ASISTENCIJE	10
ŠUT	11-19 | 57.9%
TROJKA	1-2 | 50%
SLOBODNA BACANJA	5-6 | 83.3%
BLOKADE	0
OSVOJENE LOPTE	3
IZGUBLJENE LOPTE	3

Nikola Jokic is raising another aspect of his game — his voice.

Always a leader by example, he’s now speaking up more.

And his teammates are listening, too.

Jokic scored 28 points, including six in the final two minutes, and dished out 10 assists as the short-handed Denver Nuggets rode a big second-half run to a 106-100 win.

“He always sets the temperature for us,“ Nuggets coach Michael Malone said. “If he’s getting down, if he’s dejected, that’s going to trickle down to everybody else. I love his positivity, his encouraging guys. That’s impactful, when you have your best player doing that.”

The Nuggets needed a boost. Jokic led the charge, scoring 11 of Denver’s final 12 points.

Trailing 70-61 with 4:13 left in the third, the Nuggets went on a 15-0 spurt to close out the quarter. They continued their roll in the fourth. In all, it was a 27-1 surge — and nearly wasn’t enough.

A 17-point Denver lead was whittled to three before Jokic took over. The big man who just made his second All-Star team hit a pair of free throws, a long jumper and a floater to restore some breathing room.

“To me, this might be our best win of the year,” Malone said.

IZVOR: ESPN

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