"When Jokic attempted a vertical leap, he jumped 17 inches. It was, according to P3, the worst vertical jump they had ever recorded."

Cool article in the Athletic about dad bods in sports featuring our very own Joker and Luka. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6096850/2025/01/30/patrick-mahomes-nikoa-jokic-body-athletes-workout/

Some excerpts:

"What was most revealing about Jokić was not the numbers themselves, but the players he compared to. He was right on the fringe of a group of guards that Elliot called “Swiss Army Knives” because of their ability to do anything on the court."

"When Dončić started making trips to P3 as a teenager, he did not grade out well in traditional performance metrics. But he did have one superpower: He was in the 92nd percentile in a measure called “eccentric force,” which translates to the simple act of going full speed and then stopping, a fact first documented by the Wall Street Journal."