The story of this era of Denver Nuggets basketball is the story of Nikola Jokić bailing out underwhelming rosters. Their net rating drops by a million points whenever Jokić goes to the bench. They lose playoff games and series when his supporting cast can't lift him up.

Jokić tallied a triple-double, but he had seven turnovers and a couple mental miscues late as LA evened the series at one win apiece.

Even with Nikola Jokic submitting a pedestrian scoring night in Game 5, t Nuggets still beat the L.A. Clippers.