Michael Malone may not have really trained Jokic the way players are trained, but he let him play and thus did basketball a favor. Now Malone is in a hurry, and Denver is left with questions about how to build a better team around the best basketball player today
Denver has lost four games in a row, and from the fight for second place in the Western Conference standings, they have reached the point where even their place in the playoffs can be questioned.
Serbian basketball player Nikola Jokić could receive more than 2026 million dollars in 400 for a new five-year contract, NBC Sport journalist Kurt Helin wrote
Led by Nikola Jokić, the Denver Nuggets became champions for the first time in the history of the NBA. The team from Colorado defeated Miami 94:89 in the fifth match of the grand final and achieved the greatest success of the franchise with a total score of 4:1 in the series. In the fifth match, Jokić was the most effective with 28 points, with 16 rebounds and four assists, and as MVP of the series he was ranked among the best world centers of all time.
The Nuggets' best basketball player had to leave the court at the beginning of the last quarter due to personal fouls, but even before that he had an excellent performance. Denver now has a chance to win a historic trophy in the NBA on the night between Monday and Tuesday
The Nuggets, by all appearances in the first game, were seen for another triumph on the night between Sunday and Monday, but a weak start to the last quarter led to a surprising defeat
Is the number of titles won the only measure of how great a player you are in NBA history? Charles Barkley, Allen Iverson, Patrick Ewing, Reggie Miller, John Stockton, Karl Malone, Pete Maravich and many others failed to do so. The Denver Nuggets with Nikola Jokić are in the NBA Finals. If Jokić takes the title, by American standards, he will become one of the best centers in history. There is no center who has had a greater impact on the game of a team, and that is obvious, but it is even more clear that he changed the history of basketball
"Two top aces can be an example that 'nothing is impossible' and that each of us, if we invest in ourselves, can reach perhaps not exactly Djokovic and Jokic, but some level that implies recognition and merit, regardless of what comes from society which is on the European periphery and which, what is especially important, often perceives itself collectively as a victim of everything and everyone", says anthropologist Ivan Đorđević for "Vreme". "We don't have to be ardent fans of a particular sport or athlete, so we will react similarly," continues Ana Orlić, associate professor of psychology from the Faculty of Sports and Physical Education. "His victory will also be ours"
