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On March 14, Jokic hit a rainbow hook-shot at the buzzer against the Dallas Mavericks to award Denver a 100–99 win. [107] In Game 1 of the Nuggets' first-round playoff series against the San Antonio Spurs, Jokić became the fourth player in NBA history to record a triple-double in his playoff debut and the first since James in 2006.
The CBA that ended the 2011 lockout instituted no immediate changes to the draft, but called for a committee of owners and players to discuss future changes. [70] As of 2014, the basic eligibility rules for the draft are listed below. All drafted players must be at least 19 years old during the calendar year of the draft.
Center Nikola Jokic, who was drafted 41st overall in 2014 by the Denver Nuggets, is the only Serbian in league history to win an NBA Finals MVP (), as well as the first to win a regular season MVP award, having done so on three separate occasions Center Darko Miličić is the highest drafted player from a Serbia-based club.
Jokic’s older brothers, Strahinja and Nemanja, also played basketball from a young age. Basketball runs in Nikola Jovic’s family. The Miami Heat player was born in England on June 9, 2003, as ...
Denver's Nikola Jokic is second overall with about 1.4 million votes, which is tops among all Western Conference players. ... The 24 All-Stars will be drafted into three teams of eight players ...
Miami Heat rookie forward Nikola Jovic and Denver Nuggets two-time MVP center Nikola Jokic share similar names. And they were also able to share the same court for a few seconds in Game 1 of the ...
Nikola Jokić is the Serbian player with most NBA honours and is the first Serb, and only the third European, to win the NBA Most Valuable Player Award. In 2022, Jokić was named the NBA MVP for the second year in a row, becoming the 13th player to win the award in consecutive seasons, as well as the second European player to win the award more ...
During the 2014 NBA draft, Denver traded their first lottery pick (11th overall pick) since 2003 to Chicago to acquire two later first-round draft picks, which were used to draft Jusuf Nurkić and Gary Harris; with the 41st overall pick and their first pick of the second round of the draft, the Nuggets selected 19-year old Nikola Jokić from ...