Nikola Jokić reminded everyone how much more than a scorer he is during the preseason opener, whipping a behind-the-back, cross-court pass to Cameron Johnson for a three.
The play was close to unhittable on any logic. He gathered the ball in traffic, turned away from his defender without looking, and found a teammate on the opposite side of the floor who had barely moved.
It is the signature of Jokić's playmaking: he creates advantages that the scoreboard does not capture, drawing defenders inward and delivering the ball to the one place they have already vacated.
Coming in a preseason game, the assist served as a reminder that the question about Jokić is less whether he can still do things nobody else can, and more how long he intends to keep doing them.
