I don’t think it can even be argued against that Jokic is one of the greatest centers to ever play the game. The man already has 2 MVPs, a Finals MVP, and a championship at 28 years of age. As long as he doesn’t face any injuries, his play style isn’t exactly one that will quickly deteriorate as he grows older. But where do you think he already ranks among All-Time centers? What does he have to accomplish to be considered at the level of players like Hakeem?
(please don’t misinterpret that as me saying Jokic has already surpassed Olajuwon, I just thought it was a fun benchmark to use)
I think it’s easy to say he’s comfortably top 10 without question for centers all time. I think he’s a bit on the outside looking in towards the Mount Rushmore of bigs which I’d say in no particular order is Wilt, Kareem, Shaq, Russell. I’d say he’s somewhere around that 5-8 realistically surrounded by Hakeem, Moses, and DRob.
Ultimately I think he can actually make it onto people’s Mount Rushmore because (in my personal opinion) I think assuming the health of him and teammate which to be fair is asking a lot, I wouldn’t be shocked in the least to see them repeat this year and ultimately position themselves for a 3-peat.