The Sombor Shuffle is no longer a secret hiding in some small corner of the basketball universe.
Sunday afternoon changed all that.
As Nikola Jokic helped the Nuggets author another improbable, season-saving, double-digit comeback win in Game 6 of the Western Conference semifinals against the Clippers, he kept hitting his patented, impossible-to-defend shot that had just been labeled as unconventional.
Sure, the process in which Jokic steps back and skies a jump shot off his right foot may seem different to the naked eye, but to label it as some goofy, awkward or uncommon offering to the gymnasium sky is to discount the hours Jokic has put into its execution and the creativity that created it. To liken the shot to some miracle every time the high-arching jumper lands in the net is to ignore the fact the shot has created numerous memorable moments for the Nuggets during a season that just may last a calendar year before all is said and…
