The NBA’s attention may be on Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic, but NBA veteran Austin Rivers thinks the real gold may lie with the New York Knicks.

Rivers filed the lawsuit Karl-Anthony TownBeing named the NBA’s “most talented” center on The Ringer’s social media channels means his arsenal of traits is better than the three-time NBA MVP’s.

“(Jokic) can’t shoot like Karl. They’re not even in the same shooting zone.” Rivers explained. “I didn’t say he was better than Nikola. Passing is just a skill… If we talk about the offensive package, Karl is a better scorer than Nikola in almost every aspect of the game. He’s an average shooter, he’s an average three-point shooter.”

From Rivers’ perspective, towns Jokic’s career points per game (22.9 to 21.0), rebounds (10.9 to 10.8), blocks (1.3 to 0.7) and three-pointers He appears to be superior in shooting percentage (39.9 to 35.3). Towns was able to bounce back from a slow start; In particular, he scored a total of 65 points in the last two games, both of which were wins over the Knick. He had 44 points on his own in Wednesday’s win over Miami, good for third-best scoring so far in this young NBA season.

Rivers also declared that Jokic is the better player overall, but warned scouts to underestimate Towns’ ability to hold his own in such a one-on-one battle.

“I didn’t say he was a better player, that’s not even up for debate,” the Knick’s Rivers said. “If we’re talking about attacking skills, player skills, if I tell them both to go out that night and score as many points as possible, Karl can score more goals.”

towns and the Knicks (3-2) will face Jokic and the Nuggets in Denver later this month on the 25th. By the way, they were supposed to go to Houston on Monday night (8:45 PM ET, MSG).

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