Jokic Is Down 5.7 Points a Game, but Still Above Every Line Posted

Set the 6 games of 2026-27 against the 65 games of 2025-26 and points, rebounds and assists have all slipped. Points are down 5.7 a game, rebounds are down 3.2 and assists are down 1.7.

In raw terms the scoring drop is the biggest of the three. In percentage terms rebounds have fallen furthest: 9.7 is about a quarter below 12.9, while 22.0 is about a fifth below 27.7. Assists have held up best, at 9.0 against 10.7.

The minutes run the other way. He is playing 36.9 a night against 34.8, so this is not a case of a star being eased in with a short leash. For the season-by-season numbers for Jokic, including every year back to 2015-16, the player page has the full table.

If you want a single category in depth, there are pages for Jokic's points, rebounds and assists. To set him beside another player, the compare tool puts two stat lines side by side.

The efficiency numbers carry most of the story. Jokic is shooting 47.2% from the field, down from 56.9%, and 22.6% from three, down from 38.0%. He is taking 18.0 field goal attempts a game, so this is not a player who has stopped shooting.

The free throw line is the one shooting split where he is ahead of last season: 88.5% against 83.1%. So the dip is in shot-making from the field and from deep, not in his touch across the board.

The volume is there and the percentages are well below last season's. With only 6 games, a handful of makes either way moves a percentage a long way.

Career numbers give the bigger frame. Over 816 games in 12 seasons Jokic is a 55.9% shooter from the field, 36.2% from three and 82.5% from the line, averaging 22.2 points a game. This season's 22.0 sits almost exactly on that career average, which is a reminder of how high the last few seasons were: his best scoring year was 2024-25 at 29.6 points a game.

He has led the Nuggets in scoring in 0 of 6 games, although his season high is 35 points. For who else is in the rotation, the Nuggets roster page lists the full group, and the starting lineups page and injuries report show who is expected to play.

Over his last five games Jokic has averaged 23.8 points, 10.2 rebounds and 9.8 assists in 37.3 minutes. Each number is above the 6-game season average, which makes sense: five games out of six is most of the season, so one weak game drags the full line down.

The two most recent games show the range. Against POR on 2 Nov he had 26 points, 9 rebounds and 8 assists. At PHX on 30 Oct he had 18 points, 7 rebounds and 10 assists. Same player, two quite different scoring nights, both with plenty of playmaking.

Across the six-game log the points run 26, 18, 21, 19, 35 and 13, and the assists run 8, 10, 10, 11, 10 and 5. That is a wide spread on a small sample, so the five-game line should be treated as a snapshot rather than a trend. Jokic's game log has every game with the opponent and the box score.

To see how his stretch fits the league, the results page lists recent finals, and player streaks tracks runs of games above a number.

Here is the part the scoring headline hides. The page carries seven prop lines for Jokic, and his 6-game average is above all seven. The margins are not equal.

The narrowest are the ones fans watch most. Points is 22.0 against a line of 21.5, and points plus rebounds plus assists is 40.7 against 40.5. Rebounds (9.7 against 9.5) and assists (9.0 against 8.5) are close behind. These are thin gaps on a small sample, so they describe the first six games and nothing more.

The wide gaps are in the defensive and perimeter markets. He averages 1.3 blocks against a line of 0.5, 2.0 steals against 1.5 and 1.2 threes against 0.5. That blocks figure answers a question the page gets: Jokic is averaging 1.3 blocks this season, up from 0.8 last year.

The game-by-game numbers add context. In the six games he has recorded at least one three in four of them and at least one block in four of them, while points plus rebounds plus assists ranged from 25 to 60. For a view built around how often a player clears a number, the prop streaks page tracks that across the league, the hit rates page shows how often players clear their lines, and the NBA player props page lists the current lines. Neither is a recommendation, and this article does not make one: it only describes where his averages sit relative to the posted numbers.

Denver, at 3-3, host the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday 4 November 2026 at 9:00 PM ET. It is the seventh game of the sample this piece has been working with.

The Nuggets vs Raptors game preview has the model's win probability, the market line, projected lineups and Jokic's prop lines for the matchup. It is the place to see how the numbers above line up with the numbers for this specific game. The NBA schedule and live scores pages cover the rest of the night, and the standings show where Denver sit.

When the game is done, check Jokic's latest averages and game log to see how the sample moves.

Nikola Jokic is scoring 5.7 fewer points a game than he did a year ago. Nikola Jokic's full 2026-27 stats show 22.0 points, 9.7 rebounds and 9.0 assists in 36.9 minutes across 6 games, against 27.7, 12.9 and 10.7 in 34.8 minutes in 2025-26.

The odd part is the minutes. He is on the floor about two more minutes a night and producing less. The 22.0 points a game ranks 23rd among NBA players at the time of writing, and he has led Denver in scoring in 0 of the 6 games.

And yet every average on his page sits above its prop line. This piece goes through what has fallen, what has held and where the gaps are widest. It is a 6-game sample and Denver are 3-3, so read everything here as early-season data rather than a verdict. For the wider picture, the NBA hub has scores, standings and the schedule.

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