Denver Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokić praised interim head coach David Adelman after the team suffered a 125-93 defeat against the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 7 of their second-round playoff series.

I told him not to play,” revealed Nikola Jokic, talking about 29-year-old Aaron Gordon, “You can injure yourself even worse. You can see that he was struggling, hard to move, this and that. But

That is how Aaron Gordon reacted to Nikola Jokic fouling out in the third period for the first time in his career. That it came in Game 2 of the second round of the NBA Playoffs against the top-seeded Thunder made it even more exasperating.