It was barely dawn when Nikola Jokic's hardcore fans in his Serbian hometown of Sombor chanted 'MVP! MVP!' and celebrated the Denver Nuggets' first NBA title.
It was barely dawn when Nikola Jokic's hardcore fans in his Serbian hometown of Sombor chanted "MVP! MVP!" and celebrated the Denver Nuggets' first NBA title.
The loudest ovation came when the typically humble and stone-faced Jokic said in a post-game, on-court interview: "It's time to go home." "It's just amazing," Jokic's father Branislav, who runs a local harness racing club on the outskirts of Sombor, said in an interview. "I don't think this great accomplishment can ever be repeated again."
Branislav Jokic, wearing a blue Denver Nuggets jersey, said that nobody could have predicted Nikola's success as a basketball player as he progressed from a small-town talent, "who was a bit overweight at one point," to moving to the regional league and then signing his first contract with the Nuggets.
"He started growing, both in height and in size, and he started to become aware that he could be a basketball player, but he had a great desire in those days. He would say, 'Dad, I want to become a horseman.' And I used to tell him: 'Son, become a basketball player first, and you'll become a great horseman later,"' Branislav Jokic said.
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