Got a problem with the way that Nikola Jokic looks? Sir Charles has a problem with you.

“Listen, his body would be the last thing I’d be worried about if I was a fan or anything,” NBA legend Charles Barkley told The Denver Post during a phone interview. “That would be the least of my worries.”

Through 11 games this season, Jokic already has two triple-doubles and two-game winning shots under his belt. But when fans and media tried to distill the source of his strange funk that lasted nearly a week, it often came back to his body, which the team listed at 284 pounds to start the year. At least one rival scout thought he was overweight. Others wondered whether he was drained from playing for Serbia in the FIBA World Cup.

According to two team sources, Jokic currently weighs less than he did during last year’s playoff run, when he averaged 25 points, 13.0 rebounds and 8.4 assists over 14 games.

It may be true that Jokic doesn’t look like chiseled stars LeBron James or James Harden, but Barkley said fans shouldn’t fixate on his appearance. Asked why they might do so, the former NBA MVP said it’s because people are still astonished at what he can do at his size.

“I think they’re surprised at what a great player he is more than anything,” he said. “He’s a great player, who’s just not physically imposing. That’s the only thing I think it could be. Because he’s a great player.”

While Barkley was critical of the Nuggets during Thursday night’s TNT broadcast — “They are still living on their reputation from last year,” he said at halftime of Denver’s comeback win over the Nets — there’s no denying the Round Mound of Rebound’s love of Jokic.

And it has nothing to do with the fact that he doesn’t look like the rest of the league’s stars.

“He’s one of my favorites because this guy is just what we would call a no-drama superstar,” Barkley said. “That’s why he’s one of my favorite players. … No ego, but like there’s never any drama around this guy. I’ve never heard a bad word. You don’t hear him getting in any trouble. Guy just plays basketball.”

If fans are stuck on the way Jokic looks and can’t appreciate the way the best passing big man in the NBA decodes defenses, then Barkley’s got nothing for you.

“If you don’t like watching him play, you don’t like basketball,” he said.

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