ŠAMPIONI SVETA / WORLD CHAMPIONS
NIKOLA JOKIĆ Most valuable player of the NBA A story like no other. Nikola's journey from 41 st draft pick to league MVP is one of the most incredible successes we’ve witnessed in the history of basketball
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THE BASKETBALL WORLD HAS TURNED A NEW PAGE and written a new entry that will remain in its annals: for the first time in the
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history of this won- derful game, the NBA league’s best player comes from Serbia. He is the first Serb, but also only the third European – after Ger- man Dirk Nowitzki and Greece’s Giannis Ante- tokounmpo. Nikola received the
announcement together with the entire Denver team, then stood and gave a short speech to his teammates. Modest- ly, in his own style, he said that the MVP trophy belongs to the entire team, and not just him. That’s be- cause he’s the most unselfish play- er in the NBA, and probably also the most skilful. They call him a ‘point guard trapped in a center‘s body’ be- cause of his incredible passing abil- ity. He’s a veritable machine for tri- ple-double performances. The whole world is talking about the fairy-tale journey of one chubby boy - from basketball in Sombor to the sport’s greatest individual acknowledge- ment. That fateful 26 th June 2014 is considered the day that changed the recent history of the Denver Nug-
1 Konji su Nikolina velika ljubav 2 Džoker i Nole, drugari šampioni 3 Bucko zbog kojeg svaki dečak sada zna da je nebo granica 4 Mural u rodnom Somboru 1 Horses are Nikola’s great love 2 Joker and Nole, fellow champions 3 Chubby kid, thanks to whom every boy now knows that the sky’s the limit 4 Mural in his native Sombor
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