What do you say about a player who keeps breaking his own records? A player who's so far ahead of everyone else that he's literally competing with himself?
Nikola Jokić just finished the 2025-26 season with a Box Plus-Minus of 14.1 - the highest single-season BPM in NBA history except for his own 2021-22 campaign. That's right. Jokić now holds the top two BPM seasons of all time.
And if that wasn't enough? He just did something no player in NBA history has ever done: he led the league in both assists and rebounds in the same season. Not Wilt Chamberlain. Not Oscar Robertson. Not Magic Johnson. Nobody.
Jokić is in his own statistical stratosphere, folks. He also led the league in PER (32.22) with the second-highest PER ever recorded, trailing only his own 2021-22 season. Seeing a pattern here?
Let's talk about what BPM actually measures. It's an estimate of a player's contribution per 100 possessions, accounting for everything - scoring, passing, rebounding, defense, efficiency. A 14.1 BPM means that when Jokić is on the court, the Denver Nuggets are 14.1 points per 100 possessions better than an average player. That's absurd.
To put it simply: Jokić makes everyone around him better in ways that don't always show up on the highlights. The no-look passes, the high-low action, the way he orchestrates the offense from the post - it's basketball artistry.
This is now his sixth straight season with a top-10 BPM of all time. Six straight years of being one of the most impactful players in basketball history. That's not a fluke. That's sustained greatness at the highest possible level.
The Denver Nuggets have a championship because of this man. They're perennial contenders because of this man. And he's doing it without the flash, without the ego, without the drama. He just shows up, dominates in every facet of the game, and goes home.
