Nikola Jokic has become the new face of the Denver Nuggets. A second-round draft pick, the Serbian has proven to be an unforeseen pot of gold. A discovery that has quite literally pushed the franchise to the top.
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The nuggets are easily one of the best teams in the West. They are currently the top-seeded team in their conference and have pushed ahead of the Grizzlies with their recent win against the Timberwolves.
Nikola Jokic has officially passed Alex English for the most assists in Nuggets franchise history 🙌👏 pic.twitter.com/Q4xMQagp6l
— NBA (@NBA) January 19, 2023
Nikola Jokic’s latest triple-double has helped him set new records and break some past ones set. He has now finally become the franchise’s Assists leader by beating the previous record holder Alex English. In light of the Joker’s new record for his franchise, we take a look at Denver’s all-time points, rebounds, steals, assists, and triple-double leaders.
Denver Nuggets All-Time Points Leaders
While Jokic beat English in Assists, the 6ft 8″ Small Forward is still the points leader for the Franchise.
- Alex English – 21645 Points
- Dan Issel – 16589 Points
- Carmelo Anthony – 13970 Points
- David Thompson – 11992 Points
- Nikola Jokic – 11394 Points
Nuggets All-Time Assists Leaders
English set the previous record for most assists for Denver in 837 games. Meanwhile, Jokic broke it in just 568 games.
- Nikola Jokic – 3686 Assists
- Alex English – 3679 Assists
- Fat Lever – 3566 Assists
- Andre Miller – 2978 Assists
- Ty Lawson – 2745 Assists
Nuggets All-Time Rebounding Leaders
Jokic stands second on Denver’s list of Rebounding leaders behind only Dan Issel.
- Dan Issel – 6630 Total Rebounds
- Nikola Jokic – 5906 Total Rebounds
- Byron Beck – 5261 Total Rebounds
- Dikembe Mutombo – 4811 Total Rebounds
- Alex English – 4686 Total Rebounds
Nuggets All-Time Steals Leaders
Jokic is unfortunately not a part of the franchise’s top 5 steals leaders. However, without any surprise, he isn’t too far behind the 5th spot and has 685 steals, and stands only 9 steals behind Nene.
- Fat Lever – 1167 Steals
- T.R. Dunn – 1070 Steals
- Alex English – 854 Steals
- Dan Issel – 798 Steals
- Nene – 694 Steals
Nuggets All-Time Triple-Double Leaders
In this stat line, Nikola Jokic has absolutely no competition. He is so far ahead that it’s not even a competition, to be fair.
- Nikola Jokic – 89 Triple-Doubles
- Fat Lever – 43 Triple-Doubles
- Dikembe Mutombo – 8 Triple-Doubles
- Alex English – 5 Triple-Doubles
- Marcus Camby – 2 Triple-Doubles
Do you think Jokic can overtake the existing leaders in all the categories here by the end of his career?