Game 7 awaits after Nuggets waste an all-time Nikola Jokic performance

SAN ANTONIO — There’s no reason to bury the lede. Nikola Jokic played the best basketball game of his career Thursday night. But Jokic’s 43 points, a new career high and the most a Nuggets player has scored in the playoffs in franchise history, weren’t enough. Neither were his 12 rebounds or nine assists. The Nuggets fell 120-103 to the…