This week's 5 takeaways from the NBA are:

-Jokic might be better now than the last two years he actually won the MVP award .

-The Sixers are red hot. And no one is talking about them.

-The LA Clippers starting to figure it out

-The Eastern Conference is starting to round itself out

-Let’s appreciate LeBron James as he closes in on Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s historic scoring record

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