Popovich - "Jokic is a 7 foot Larry Bird type guy. The way he passes and reads things, he's incredible"

That is actually wrong. Sabonis played pg up to 14-15 (that is where his passing comes from), and then hit growth spur, so obviously reclasified as center. He was also dunking from free throw line easily before injuries. NBA and blazers really would need to do cooperation and create his passing reel, then new generation would actually see what he was up to, and understand that jokic is amazing at passing, but Sabonis was even better. Check larry bird mixtape, those split second touch passes for example, sabonis was doing that. He was doing those full court passes that jokic does. So yeah, sabonis had better handles, and better passing than jokic. healthy sabonis in todays game where bigs are allowed to bring ball up and play pg, would average tripple double. Look at what domas doing, last season 6.7 assts, and his dad was a way better passer.

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