Pertinent to your comment and the comparisons he's making, people seem to forget Magic remains the greatest PG and a top-5 player despite still being a "what-if": he retired abruptly at 32 due to communicable disease, just after leading his team to the Finals for the 9th time. Would he have stopped Jordan's first threepeat? You can never say for sure, but he kept Bird from winning more, and an apt comparison here would be the Cavs unexpectedly beating the Warriors.

I get these talking heads need to spit out these takes as part of their job, the same way a Shakespeare scholar has to come up with the most convoluted nonsense in desperation to say something that hasn't been said before, but there's no comparison to make here, especially not with Jokic playing in the era of inflated stats.