The 2019-20 NBA season was best described as unusual, putting it mildly. It tested everyone and everything. After abruptly coming to a temporary halt in March due to the pandemic, the season resumed in the Disney bubble and didn’t end until early October, 355 days after it began the previous October.

Nobody noticed at the time — so much was happening all at once — but there was another strange development that in hindsight seems hard to believe:

Nikola Jokić wasn’t a force to behold.

Good player? Absolutely, of course. He had a 30-20-10 game, a 22-rebound triple-double and a 47-point game. But: He didn’t start in the All-Star Game , wasn’t First Team All-NBA , averaged less than 20 points (19.9, but still), shot 31.4% on 3-pointers (he’s at 41.7% this season), and it was Jamal M

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