{"id":605812,"date":"2026-02-16T06:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/605812\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T06:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:01:16","slug":"nikola-jokic-vs-demarcus-cousins-1-on-1-boogie-weighs-in-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/605812\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Jokic vs DeMarcus Cousins 1-on-1? Boogie weighs in"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NBA All-Star weekend festivities are currently taking place in Los Angeles, and Denver Nuggets<\/a> superstar Nikola Jokic is among the participants<\/a> for Sunday’s main event: the All-Star game itself. Jokic was voted in as a starter for the game despite missing around a month due to a knee injury, and it remains to be seen whether the Nuggets star will give a bit more effort<\/a> in the game than he has in previous years.<\/p>\n

Also in attendance for the festivities this weekend is former NBA big man DeMarcus Cousins<\/a>, who was Jokic’s teammate for a year with the Nuggets, and recently, the star weighed in on who he thinks<\/a> would win in a one-on-one game between himself and the Joker, if both were in their prime.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it’s a tie 11-11, cause I don’t think either one of us can stop each other,\u201d said Cousins, per Ricardo K Sandoval of Newsweek on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n

Indeed, neither Jokic nor Cousins is known as a lock down defender, but both have otherworldly offensive skillsets that can torture opponents.<\/p>\n

Jokic isn’t necessarily thought of as an isolation, one-on-one kind of player, drawing criticism at one point this year for kicking out to Peyton Watson on a last-second play against the Dallas Mavericks as opposed to going up with it himself.<\/p>\n

However, he is virtually unstoppable around the basket, and has also turned himself into one of the league’s best three-point shooters to boot.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Cousins was a terror in his own right back in the day with the Sacramento Kings, bullying opponents in the paint, and also showing off a feathery touch from the perimeter, along with the ability to run the floor better than most big men in the league.<\/p>\n

It would certainly be a fun matchup to watch.<\/p>\n

In any case, the All-Star game is set to tip off on Sunday at 5:00 pm ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA All-Star weekend festivities are currently taking place in Los Angeles, and Denver Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[7,805,301,187,3943,6,253,302],"class_list":["post-605812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denver-nuggets","tag-basketball","tag-demarcus-cousins","tag-denver","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-denvernuggets","tag-nba","tag-nikola-jokic","tag-nuggets"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116078790776160288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}