In helping the Denver Nuggets win their sixth straight game on Thursday night with a 126-115 victory over the Orlando Magic, Nikola Joki\u0107\u00a0also made NBA history in the process. <\/p>\n
Joki\u0107\u00a0became the league’s all-time leader in assists by a center, surpassing the previous mark of 5,660 held by Basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. <\/p>\n
The Nuggets superstar entered the day needing six assists to tie Abdul-Jabbar. He finished with 13, along with 23 points and 11 rebounds en route to recording his 13th triple-double of the season. <\/p>\n
Joki\u0107 said after the game he won’t really think about this latest historic moment until after his career is over. <\/p>\n
Perhaps even more remarkable than Joki\u0107 surpassing Abdul-Jabbar’s record is how much faster he did it. Abdul-Jabbar recorded his 5,660 assists in 1,560 career games over 20 seasons. <\/p>\n
Thursday was game No. 771 for Joki\u0107, who is in his 11th season. He averages more than twice as many assists per game (7.4) than Abdul-Jabbar (3.6) did during his legendary career. <\/p>\n
Joki\u0107 and the Nuggets have now won six straight games, one shy of matching their season-high. They are 20-6 overall and within 4.5 games of the Oklahoma City Thunder for the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In helping the Denver Nuggets win their sixth straight game on Thursday night with a 126-115 victory over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-358441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}