Nikola Jokic was in the Nuggets’ training room last Friday night, going through his usual postgame workout routine, when his head coach paid him a visit. Michael Malone doesn’t feel any need to apologize to Jokic for the heavy minutes — “You see his paycheck? I mean, come on, man,” the coach wisecracked — but he did want to check in on his starting center with one game remaining in Denver’s long homestand. “I know that when we’re in the second quarter and there’s 10 minutes on the clock and I’m saying, ‘Nikola, let’s go,’ you’re looking at me like this,” Malone recalled saying two nights later, mimicking an expression of tired disbelief.

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