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  1. Nikola Jokić (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Јокић, pronounced [nǐkola jôkitɕ] ⓘ; born February 19, 1995) is a Serbian professional basketball player who is a center for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

  2. May 13, 2024 · Nikola Jokic is a Serbian professional basketball player who is one of the most versatile talents of his generation. Widely considered the best-passing center in the sport’s history, Jokic won three NBA Most Valuable Player Awards (2021, 2022, 2024) and led the Denver Nuggets to the 2023 NBA title.

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    • Humble athletic beginnings. Many professional athletes show an early proclivity for sports. Not Jokic. “I was taller than most of the guys and girls, and fattest, too.
    • Hoops and horses. There’s an alternate universe where, instead of directing the most devastating offense in the NBA, Nikola Jokic is content riding or at least caring for racing horses.
    • Internet influence. A young Jokic’s only window into the NBA was YouTube, and he didn’t even look through it until he was roughly 14 years old. Highlights of Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant initially caught his attention, then clips of great passers and big men.
    • Don’t blink. Jokic’s basketball path to the NBA was short and steep; that’s a credit to how quickly he became a pro prospect. After tiptoeing into the professional ranks for all of six months, a 17-year-old Jokic joined Mega Leks (Serbia) in 2012.
  3. Feb 5, 2024 · February 5, 2024. “He sees plays before they happen,” LeBron James said of Jokić last year.Photograph by David Williams / Redux for The New Yorker. In June, as the last seconds of the N.B.A....

  4. May 8, 2024 · Hall of Fame. G League. World of Woj. Awards. NBA History. Salaries. NBA.COM tickets. He once scored 71 points in a game. Seven days later, he scored 99. Radivoj Korac, from the same town as the...

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  5. Jun 8, 2021 · Jun 8, 2021. 61. June 26, 2014, is considered the day that changed the Denver Nuggets’ modern trajectory: the day they selected Nikola Jokic at No. 41 overall in the NBA Draft. No one could...

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  7. Feb 19, 1995 · Nikola Jokic | Denver Nuggets | NBA.com. Denver Nuggets | #15 | Center. Nikola. Jokic. FOLLOW. PPG. 26.4. RPG. 12.4. APG. 9.0. PIE. 21.1. HEIGHT. 6'11" (2.11m) WEIGHT. 284lb (129kg)...

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