{"id":743195,"date":"2026-07-04T18:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/743195\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T18:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:17:08","slug":"nikola-jokic-becomes-first-nugget-to-win-nba-mvp-june-8-2021-colorados-top-150-sports-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/743195\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Jokic becomes first Nugget to win NBA MVP | June 8, 2021 | Colorado&#8217;s Top 150 Sports Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy birthday, Colorado\u00a0\u2014 and\u00a0Colorado\u00a0sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leading into the state\u2019s\u00a0150th birthday Aug. 1, The Denver Gazette has partnered with the\u00a0Colorado\u00a0Sports\u00a0Hall of Fame to publicize the definitive list of\u00a0Colorado\u2019s\u00a0top\u00a0150\u00a0sports\u00a0moments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Nos. 50 to 1, Colorado\u00a0Sports\u00a0Hall of Fame historian Dave\u00a0Plati coordinated a 19-member committee to rank in order what they considered the top\u00a0moments. The No. 1 moment will be revealed July 31.\u00a0Plati\u00a0and Broncos icon Jim Saccomano will unveil the list weekly on a\u00a0Colorado\u00a0Sports\u00a0Hall of Fame podcast at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradosports.org\/podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">coloradosports.org\/podcast\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HOF.150-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"Colorado's Top 150 Sports Moments&#10;\" class=\"wp-image-1102532\"\/>Colorado Sports Hall of Fame Top 150 Sports Moments <\/p>\n<p>No. 21 \u2014 June 8, 2021<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nuggets center Nikola Jokic was named the NBA\u2019s Most Valuable Player for the 2020-21 season, the first Nugget to win the award. In his seventh season after being selected 41st in the 2014 Draft, he averaged 26.4 points, 10.9 rebounds and 8.4 assists, just the third player to average 26\/10\/8 over a full season in league history, and recorded 16 triple doubles. He collected 91 out of a possible 100 first place votes in the media voting. He repeated as the MVP in 2021-22, just the 13th player to win the honor in back-to-back seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014Dave Plati, Colorado Sports Hall of Fame historian<\/p>\n<p>    &#13;<br \/>\n        <a class=\"article-social-share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/gazette.com\/2026\/07\/04\/nikola-jokic-becomes-first-nugget-to-win-nba-mvp-june-8-2021-colorados-top-150-sports-moments\/\" onclick=\"openPopup(this.href); return false;\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n        <\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        <a class=\"article-social-share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/gazette.com\/2026\/07\/04\/nikola-jokic-becomes-first-nugget-to-win-nba-mvp-june-8-2021-colorados-top-150-sports-moments\/&amp;text=Nikola+Jokic+becomes+first+Nugget+to+win+NBA+MVP+%7C+June+8%2C+2021+%7C+Colorado%26%238217%3Bs+Top+150+Sports+Moments\" onclick=\"openPopup(this.href); return false;\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n                &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n        <\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        <a class=\"article-social-share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/gazette.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#447b3731262e21273079072c21272f6176742b3130617674302c2d376176742536302d27282162262b203d792c303034377e6b6b23253e213030216a272b296b767476726b74736b74706b2a2d2f2b2825692e2b2f2d27692621272b29213769222d363730692a312323213069302b69332d2a692a262569293234692e312a21697c697674767569272b282b3625202b3769302b34697571746937342b36303769292b29212a30376b\" title=\"Share via Email\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n        <\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        <a class=\"article-social-share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/gazette.com\/2026\/07\/04\/nikola-jokic-becomes-first-nugget-to-win-nba-mvp-june-8-2021-colorados-top-150-sports-moments\/javascript:window.print()\" title=\"Print Page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n        <\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n        <a class=\"article-social-share-icon\" href=\"#\" onclick=\"copyToClipboard('https:\/\/gazette.com\/2026\/07\/04\/nikola-jokic-becomes-first-nugget-to-win-nba-mvp-june-8-2021-colorados-top-150-sports-moments\/'); return false;\" title=\"Copy Link\">&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n        <\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, Colorado\u00a0\u2014 and\u00a0Colorado\u00a0sports. Leading into the state\u2019s\u00a0150th birthday Aug. 1, The Denver Gazette has partnered with the\u00a0Colorado\u00a0Sports\u00a0Hall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-743195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}