A detail can change your life… O Nikola Jokic has excelled in recent years in the NBA, culminating in last season when he won the MVP award. And yet, history could have been written differently, if 7 years ago it ended not in the top league in the world, but in Barcelona.
«Mega Basket and I played a match with Cedevita and people from Barcelona came to offer me a contract. But they took it back because I made a very bad appearance that day. They wanted more than me. I remember that at half time of that match our coach, Dejan Milojevic, said to me ‘Nikola, who are you?’“, Stressed the Serbian center.
However, even the first steps in the NBA were not easy for the “Joker”. «I had to change all my habits and lifestyle. I used to drink 2-3 liters of Coca-Cola every day and my last soft drink was when I traveled to the USA. In the first training sessions it was difficult. All my teammates were stronger and more athletic than me, they nailed as they wanted and I wanted to go home. But now it’s my seventh season in the NBA. But to get to this point, I had to play for quite some time for a few minutes at the end of the games».
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