{"id":416827,"date":"2023-01-27T11:41:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T11:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=416827"},"modified":"2023-01-27T11:41:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T11:41:09","slug":"five-things-you-did-not-know-about-reigning-league-mvp-nikola-jokic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/five-things-you-did-not-know-about-reigning-league-mvp-nikola-jokic\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Things You Did Not Know About Reigning League MVP Nikola Jokic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the NBA grows every year, we are witnessing more players from all around the world make it big in the league. Nikola Jokic is one example of the same. The 27-year-old is currently in his eighth season in the NBA and he has only gone from strength to strength. Unlike most traditional recruits in the NBA, Jokic did not got to college in the United States, Jokic played for leagues in Europe before he decided to pursue his dream of playing in the NBA.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jokic was selected as the 41st pick in the second round of the draft by the Denver Nuggets where he has stayed ever since he joined. The Nuggets are currently atop the Western Conference table with 34 wins and 15 losses to their name. We take a look at five things fans might not know about Jokic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Born in Yugoslavia\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2P9PuTw0-EY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jokic was born in former Yugoslavia before it became Serbia. During his time in his home country, Jokic played and dominated nearly every tournament as a child as well as an adult. It was clear from a very early age that Jokic was destined for greatness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Beaten out by the likes of Andrew Wiggins\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-416829\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image02-12.jpeg\" alt=\"Nikola Jokic \" width=\"1400\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image02-12.jpeg 1400w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image02-12-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image02-12-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image02-12-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image02-12-768x768.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/nba.com\">NBA<\/a> draft, Nikola Jokic was beaten out by the likes of Andrew Wiggins, Joel Embiid, and Julius Randle, who were all drafted ahead of him. It is safe to say that given how things have played out, a lot of teams definitely regret passing up on Jokic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Height\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-416830\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image03-12.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image03-12.jpeg 2000w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image03-12-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image03-12-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image03-12-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image03-12-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nikola Jokic stands at a towering six-foot-eleven-inches, despite that he was not the tallest player in the team up until last season. Since the departure of Bol Bol, Nikola Jokic is now the tallest man on his team.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>An exclusive club\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-416831\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image04-10-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image04-10-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image04-10-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image04-10-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image04-10-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image04-10-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image04-10-2048x1152.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nikola Jokic won back-to-back MVP awards in the 2021 and 2022 seasons. He became only the 13th individual since the inception of the award to do so. He has a chance to join the likes of Larry Bird, Bill Russell, and Wilt Chamberlain as the only three players to win three back-to-back MVP titles if he gets the job done this season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Triple double\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-416832\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image05-10.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image05-10.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image05-10-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image05-10-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image05-10-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He has the fastest triple-double in NBA history with it only taking him fourteen minutes and thirty-three seconds to do it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/top-five-things-you-did-not-know-about-nba-superstar-blake-griffin\/\">Top Five Things You Did Not Know About NBA Superstar Blake Griffin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the NBA grows every year, we are witnessing more players from all around the world make it big in the league. Nikola Jokic is one example of the same. The 27-year-old is currently in his eighth season in the NBA and he has only gone from strength to strength. Unlike most traditional recruits in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":416828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}