Nikola Jokić is putting together a season for the ages, and on Friday night the Denver Nuggets star put on another show.

With roughly five weeks remaining in the 2024-25 NBA regular season, the race for MVP is still up in the air. Barring injury, it's a two-man race between Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokić, but there are a lot of interesting debates to be hard for the positioning of players behind them.

The contrast between Jokić's offensive genius and his deficiencies under the basket, make his case less clear-cut than stats might suggest.

Star center Nikola Jokić, who is averaging a triple-double this season, has helped the Denver Nuggets win 18 of their past 23 games.

Friday night, Nikola Jokic put up a line nobody in NBA history has ever recorded: 31 points, 21 rebounds and 22 assists. He became the first NBA player in history with a triple-double of 30+ points, 20+ rebounds and 20+ assists.

In the Nuggets' dramatic overtime win, Nikola Jokić emerges from more than 75 years of NBA precedent to post the first 30-20-20 game in league history.

which means it's time to dive deeper into the regular-season MVP market. As the winner of the NBA's most coveted award in three of the last four seasons, Nikola Jokić will look to make history ...

"You take a look at his stat sheet, it doesn't always show what he does for us," Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla said of Horford.