Danny Wolf is as honored with his Jewish Joker nickname — a nod to Nikola Jokic — as he is amused by Draymond Green’s profane reaction to it.
But the Nets’ first-round pick — as quietly efficient as any rookie in the NBA over the past few weeks — says he doesn’t actually play that much like Jokic. He’s just tried to take bits and parts from the likes of Jokic, Alperen Sengun, Franz Wagner and other skilled bigs revolutionizing the game.
The result is a multi-talented player who slipped to Brooklyn at the back end of the first round and looks like a draft night steal. He’s humorously been dubbed by some as the Jewish Joker, a sobriquet that sent Green into a recent tantrum.
“We got the Jewish Joker, now. We got the Baby Joker [Sengun, Derik Queen]. Enough, man,” Green said last week on The Draymond Green Show. “I have to f–king guard Joker. You mean to tell me everyone’s just Joker? F–k out of here. No disrespect to Danny Wolf; I haven’t played against him. But enough of comparing everybody to Joker.”
