I know, this is the second straight article about Nikola Jokic. But I am absolutely fascinated by him, so cut me some slack. There’s never been a player like Jokic—an unathletic big man who has so much gravitational pull on defenses that he can choose to get the easiest 5-foot shot you can imagine or can kick it out to a wide open shooter, and can shoot the three-ball at a good enough rate to make him virtually unguardable. RAPTOR WAR is a stat created by mathematicians at FiveThirtyEight that compiles every single nugget of stats and game data that you can fathom, with the output being a single number.