Nuggets center Nikola Jokic logged a grueling 65 minutes in Friday’s quadruple-overtime loss to the Trail Blazers, the fourth-most in NBA playoff history and the most since 1953.
That 1953 contest, between the Celtics and the former Syracuse Nationals, was the first and only quadruple-overtime game in NBA postseason history until Friday, when the Blazers outlasted the Nuggets 140-137.
Jokic wasn’t the only one to log iron man minutes. Blazers guard C.J. McCollum ran for 60, tying several other players for the seventh-most in playoff annals.
The full list:
| Most minutes, playoff game | |
|---|---|
| 1. 67 – Red Rocha / Paul Seymour, Syracuse (1953) | |
| 3. 66 – Bob Cousy, Boston (1953) | |
| 4. 65 – Nikola Jokic, Denver (2019) | |
| 5. 62 – Kevin Johnson, Phoenix (1993) | |
| 6. 61 – Gar Heard, Phoenix (1976) | |
| 7. 60 – Four times, most recently by C.J. McCollum, Portland (2019) |
