Ahead of Tuesday night's TNT-televised showdown with the Northwest Division rival Denver Nuggets in Salt Lake City, Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder made an admission.

Snyder loves Nikola Jokic's game. Of course, Snyder prefers when he can sit back and enjoy watching the wide variety of skills the reigning Most Valuable Player brings to the game when he isn't about to face Jokic and the Nuggets.

"He's unique. I love him," Snyder said. "I don't know if you're allowed to kind of have a favorite player or things like that as a coach, and there's probably a few of them, but he's one of the guys that I really enjoy watching. I don't enjoy scouting him as much."