Marcus Morris explains why Nikola Jokic is not one of the 20 biggest players in the NBA of all time
Marcus Morris explains why Nikola Jokic is not one of the 20 biggest players in the NBA of all time originally on Fadeaway World.
The free agent striker Marcus Morris haus her eyebrows during an appearance on First catch In April, where he said that Nikola Jokic was not a top 20 player of all time. Morris received a step back for this taking, but he now doubled it during an appearance on The show Kevin O’Connor.
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“I double and I won’t sit here and downshift Jokic,” said Morris. “I think Jokic is a very good player. I think he is a great player.”
Morris said he would have joined in the top 30, but not 20. The host Kevin O’Connor wondered what Denver Nuggets’ superstar had to do for Morris to raise him further.
“The same game he plays is what I have been playing for 13 years,” said Morris. “There is no great man, there are absolutely no big men in the league. Over the past five years, there have been no big men. If you go down the west and look at the grown -ups that have been in the league, there was not.
“He played against [Ivica] Zubac during the last five years of Big Men Legit and Joel Embiid twice a season, “Morris continued.” … The basketball landscape has changed. It’s a little ball. When I was with the clippers for four years, I was holding Jokic. I am a man from three to four.
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“Now when you look at him around the League, who is Jokic’s best defender?” Asked Morris. “Can you name five league centers in the past five years? The last center he had to face the League was F *** Ing Dwight Howard. To whom the last five centers with which Jokic had to face the night?”
Morris thinks Jokic takes advantage of being the largest actor in the field at that time. He also pointed out that the Serbian is not a great defender. Morris clearly said that he did not hate it, but he just wants to pump the brakes a little on media threshing.
Marcus Morris tore Steve Kerr for calling Nikola Jokic the best center he saw
A few days after Morris initially made this assertion concerning Jokic, the head coach of the Golden State Warriors, Steve Kerr, praised the great man. Kerr praised Jokic as the best center he saw.
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“This is the best center I have ever seen,” said Kerr, via Vic Lombardi. “I played against Kareem [Abdul-Jabbar]. I’m so old. And Kareem couldn’t do it all. He is absolutely one of the most intelligent players of all time.
Morris spoke of these comments during the episode, and he is sure to say that he was not a fan.
“He said he was the best big man he ever saw, and he saw Shaquille O’Neal,” said Morris. “Are you serious? You have seen all the big great men. Go from time to time, it has nothing to do with Jokic, but these guys played against Bigs every night.”
Morris suggested that Kerr should be edible when he said that. Well, O’Neal put Jokic above himself in the list of the five main centers, but you must say that he was a little too humble there.
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Jokic has to do more to exceed someone like O’Neal. He has won a title, a final MVP and three MVPs so far in his career. It is a super CV, but it is not enough.
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This story was initially reported by Fadeaway World on June 3, 2025, where it appeared for the first time.