Michael Malone: "The league has an impossible job" in schedule-making, but: "Giannis is a 2-time MVP, Nikola's a 2-time MVP. To have this game the 2nd night of a back-to-back, not a national TV game...you would hope that they'd set this game up to be more of a marquee matchup."

Quotes from Micheal Malone's post game conference here https://twitter.com/JoelRushNBA/status/1618455173445324803

Nikola Jokic and Giannis Antetokounmpo play each other twice during the regular season. Yet the NBA schedules their matchup tonight with Denver on a ridiculous New Orleans-Milwaukee back-to-back. No Jokic. No Murray. Two other starters from Denver rested as a result. A marquee regular season matchup is out the window.

Denver and Milwaukee's other matchup comes with the Bucks on the second night of the dreaded Utah-Denver back-to-back. The Bucks' regulars probably won't be playing in that one.

However there is clear bias in the league as the NBA is setting up Jokic vs Embiid in a few days but neglecting this one