10 Things You Didn’t Know About Nikola Jokic

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Nikola Jokic

Nico yic is more than MVPs championships and crazy plays yic for the win oh it’s good he’s got addictions his jersey number turned into a100 million Scandal and there was even a time that he almost died from a nuclear explosion yeah obviously there’s a lot of things you didn’t know about yic but first we have to talk about what got him famous setting basketball records that’ll never be broken his first unbreakable record happened during an NBA game where bucket after bucket rebound after rebound yic the rebound up and in yic and some sexy passes led yic to having a ridiculous stat line before the first half was even close to finish joic already had 16 points 10 rebounds and nine assists so now being only an assist away from a triple double history was about to be made wide open is Chandler oh Chandler double clutched it doesn’t matter he’s got it 16 10 and 10 for joic yic only played 14 minutes and 33 seconds of the game so that became the fastest triple double in NBA history because fast triple doubles have been done before we got to talk about jokic’s second unbreakable record that’s something not even a goat could do joic did something during the 2023 playoffs that’ll never happen again cuz he was doing more on both sides of the floor than any player I’d ever seen things started when he dominated the Timberwolves in the first round so much in this series look at yic Magnificent joic the little hesitation puts it in and he’s failed then he continued with him making enough plays to easily take out the Suns just kept the ball never panes how many field goals he has in the game what a pass by yic but once he obliterated My Sunshine uh I mean the Lakers by eventually sweeping them Falling Away puts it upang Thea yic yic set himself up to do the impossible cuz he was already topping every single player of the entire playoffs in rebounds and assists if joic also scored more points than every player he’d become the first in NBA history to lead an entire playoffs in all three categories problem was that he was still behind Jimmy Butler and they were about to face off in the NBA finals this battle was about to be for more than just a championship so joic kept scoring while Jimmy kept breaking shots then with just a game left in the series yic had a one-point lead so all he had to do was out Jimmy a final time but as the game went on even though joic was hitting shot after shot gets it backs it up and in and a foul after sha in scor Jimmy made things interesting by running the score up himself Martin to Butler Butler Corner three Nails it is Bam Butler Nails another eventually though not only did yic do enough to win the game and secure the championship and MVP he finished the game with 28 points while Jimmy only scored 21 so it was official jokic’s impossible record went viral I mean he led all players in points rebounds and assists for an entire playoff I’ve never seen anything as skilled offensively as a big like nicolei skip but what’s crazy is records like that are only possible because of his insane diet I bet you didn’t know that compared to the average person yic eats seven times more food he ate it for lunch yeah yic has always been a Munch that’s why when yic was young he already looked like the Pillsbury Doughboy all jokes aside though he was already drinking an unhealthy amount of Coca-Cola not only did yic admit that it was glass after glass and he couldn’t stop doctors warned him that he was at risk of diabetes needing dentures and a bunch of other health issues when he became an adult so he gave it up I did hear that before you came to the NBA you used to drink a gallon of Coca-Cola a day yeah yeah and I love it I drink the last Coke my first summer league on the airplane coming to the America and I remember it but after yic kicked the cup unhealthy food became an even bigger deal in jokic’s life Not only was the man drafted to the NBA during a Taco Bell commercial two things you only dreamed would come together dude would literally eat popcorn at practice and as time went on his diet and weight only got crazier now days yic is a monstrous 7 ft tall weighing uh how many pounds 300 and you don’t get that big eating SS man breakfast is where yic eats more calories in a single meal than the average human eats in a full day cuz while it’s known that most people eat 2300 calories yok’s first meal of the day alone is over 5,000 5x scramble and Baker tree spinach don’t make it runny don’t make it really hard oatmeal peans almonds blueberries honey you got it then Shake all the berries banana and a little bit of apple juice 5,000 calories right there and that’s definitely a lot of food but yic is an eater man but even though food is some joic loves it’s also what led to a basketball game where he suffered such a scary injury it changed his life forever nobody expected A Moment Like what was about to happen to eventually have a happy ending to make him go away y around everybody and joic is down cuz the injury had joic heading to the locker room and not long after x-rays revealed that he had a severe ankle sprain which was going to sideline him for seven games but even when yic returned he was never fully recovered just taking normal jump shots with both feet still had his ankle feeling extreme pain so before yic fell off he had to figure out a solution and ironically that helped him create a new move I twisted my left ankle and I just just was shooting upstairs in in a practice facility it was kind of a little painful to jump over the both legs and I kind of start jumping over the right leg and the ball was going in I said maybe I can use this and uh it’s working since then now all right jic kind of played it off like the move was no big deal but the man started whipping it out on everyone yic 28 points tonight and the basket is good and a foul George switches on to jic fadeaway jumper good shoot yic will turn it the B High my God now yic he going to sour Shuffle got it eight assists couple of steals now joic against Len sour Shuffle is good against Steven Adams who’s back in sour got it for all of our fans watching over in sore Serbia joic converts and after that there’s a reason the announcer shouted out yic hometown of somber his move literally got nicknamed the somber Shuffle it became so iconic that it became his go-to move to hit clutch shots nuggets down by one shot clocks at three yic sour Shuffle is good yic eventually told reporters that he’d use it when he played horse and because the move became so Unstoppable even NBA legends were impressed he hit a couple of those right foot joints that he shoot on me like frustrating his head you feel like you’ve done everything you could possibly do to make him take a bad shot and it hit nothing but the bottom of the net and even when you guard him for one of the best possessions that you think youve guard him he puts the ball behind his head Larry Bird style and shoots 50 ft in the air and it goes in think you did it like four or five times this series you do like this to him but all right man speaking of what yic does in games I bet you didn’t know that yic has an addiction to video games I swear that whenever yic ain’t watching hoop flicks yeah even yic is a fan so why aren’t you subscribe anyways yic is spending all the rest of his time gaming are you a video game player yes what is your game of choice uh right now I’m playing on the computer PC I’m playing League of Legends but I like 2K FIFA Call of Duty whatever and he’s even brought games into the real world by wearing video game t-shirts and playing CS go with other NBA players but jokic’s favorite game is League of Legends he’s a huge fing nerd for this so not only does he wear League of Legends merch and is always talking about the game League of Legends and are you top bottom or mid lane oh good job on the top and I’m playing uh I’m playing right now we got um I’m going to say those two eventually his teammates called him playing the game during halftime of an NBA game we in the locker room we winning it’s Hal time though Joker come in grab his phone put his feet up like this I’m like yo Jo where you say out there brother brother I’m just having fun he on his phone playing a a game before the coach come back in and he got 29 and 10 I have just doing this brother just if you open shoot it t like he’s different man but as much as yic might be in the virtual world in real life there was a time yic almost got killed by a nuclear explosion that happened before yic became the basketball God we know him as today here in Serbia is where yic was growing up he was just an innocent basketball fan dreaming of one day accomplishing his goals but things were about to turn deadly behind the scenes cuz of his country’s president stories came out that he was causing a war within his own country killing his own innocent citizens and the tragic news had leaders of other countries threatening him with violence if things continue if president mosovich will not make peace we will limit his ability to make war but threats like those didn’t stop the president so countries joined together put a plan into action and out of nowhere they hit jokic’s country with deadly attacks [Music] on March 24 1999 Western Nations carried out their threat against Serbia and began the biggest military conflict on Serbian soil since World War II planes flew over dropping bomb after bomb until it seemed like there was almost nothing left jokic’s country lost power water and everybody was forced into underground bunkers for months all yic ever said about the experience was I remember things like sirens bomb shelters always turning off the lights we practically lived in the dark even at like 9:00 a.m. everything was turned off what unfolded was the most destruction a country suffered since World War II the damage cost Serbia over $50 billion which not only ruined their economy it also left over 5,000 people killed luckily though yogic and his family were some of the survivors so he was able to grow up and continue chasing his dreams but ironically playing basketball the way he did is what got him an embarrassing in nickname that completely took over his life now all right I’m not talking about what people started calling him just cuz they couldn’t pronounce his last name a yic Nikola jokovic at first a lot of people thought it would be easier to just call him Joker like the popular character from Batman movies but yic also has another nickname that he tries to keep quiet the first time I heard it out loud was when the legendary Shaq said it what do you prefer Joker or big honey I like big honey I’m going to take joker I’m going to take Joker and big honey was made up cuz you know yic is big no did he and also cuz his basketball is slow and sweet just gets it off and time it’s up oh it’s good just like honey one of his teammates Will Barton was the one who started calling him it there’s a real story behind big honey there’s a real story big honey we switch up stop big honey no oh yeah you should have told us that one he made me nervous right I’m sweating right now because that b honey just kidding me well that’s all we going to call you from this point on and after that situation went viral fans Not only made him big honey merch or turned him into the Honey Nut Cheerios mascot every chance Shaq got he kept calling him big honey Joker sha here just want to say Shana igra valika Duo oh you had a great game big honey in your language in case you didn’t understand what I’m saying yeah love you too brother thanks a lot for joining us and you asked Will Chamberlain tonight most triple doubles by a center congrats on that one too thank you thank you there you go sh that is shyen that list no cuz I never passed big honey so cuz the name was catching on even one of yach’s teammates mom started calling him that I mean my mom she a coach so she always text me like y’all need to help ni do everything like help big fella she call yeah big honey she love call him big Honeys now all right man the nickname was some jokic’s teammate was is definitely laughing at but maybe that’s why yic trolls all of his teammates with his favorite music while most NBA players get hyped in the locker room with my type of bangers and some players even rap themselves when you focus man you look up and your money is fine I’m from a city where your friend to put a gun in your mind on flight only one to hit I said damn girl you right no P from the cameras since I was in pimpers bro I’m in Shake High speaking Mandarin I got theack like I’m Anderson you’d expect joic being around that type of music would have him bumping it too but now only has he admitted that he literally can’t listen to American Music he actually gets hyped to this now all right I ain’t going to act like I ain’t dancing to that right now but Serbian music especially his favorite that has accordion is something yic might love but all of his teammates hate it [Music] y really hijacked the ox just so that he could have the gym to himself you got to respect him but yic isn’t always doing things alone and I bet you never heard about the secret ritual he does with his wife before every game what yic does on the court is kind of inspired by his love story yic met his girl Natalia before the money or fame in high school and it was love at first first sight so cuz they stayed together and his girl stuck with him through everything once yic got into the NBA and started making millions of course he put a ring on it once they were seen at their wedding dancing and pictures confirmed that they were officially husband and wife jokic’s basketball ritual began where every game he’d attach his wedding ring to his shoes I know your ritual of your wedding ring in your shoe but when did that start when I get married take it off the finger it’s a shoe I have wedding r on on my shoe just because it’s family is really important to me and they always buy my side so I just want to give them the love to have my family always buy my side and they always protect me and that’s something that it’s it’s mine nobody can take me take away from me and if you look at yach’s shoes closely every single game not only is the wedding ring there ever since he started doing that it’s ironically would turn him into a better basketball player than ever but not everything yic wears during games is such a good thing cuz jokic’s jersey number not only only turned into a multi-million dollar Scandal it’s got a beefing with an NBA legend he is the worst MVP winner in the last 40 years now don’t get me wrong man joic wasn’t necessarily looking for trouble but because his jersey number could lose Carmelo Anthony millions of dollars of course dude felt some type of way about what dude did it’s all cuz melo’s Legacy with the Denver Nuggets was something nobody ever thought could be erased I mean once Melo got drafted to their team with a top pick he instantly changed their culture by taking them from one of the worst teams in the league to one of the best and he became one of the deadliest scores the league had ever seen that’s good all while wearing the number 15 this jersey number became iconic in nuggets history cuz well Melo was one of their best players ever while wearing it but even though fans expected his jersey number to eventually be retired so that nobody could wear it again for some weird reason the number never officially went off limits at the same time jic was also coming up in basketball and he always wore the number 15 as a teenager so when he eventually made the NBA and joined the nuggets of course he wanted to wear his favorite number so they led him now Melo was definitely salty about that and he proved it when he played dirty the first time he saw joic here’s Rivers out front and joic hits the deck but hitting joic from the back was not enough after Melo played a game against them in Denver he was saying that the number should be retired have you ever thought about if the Nuggets were to retire this is where it should be retired to be honest with you just my opinion I know just CU you play it’s my opinion man it’s I think that the history is here maybe not j’s got 15 now so we’ll see man we we still got time for that but admitting he felt like his number should be off limits and kind of joking about it wasn’t the end things turned personal when joic started accomplishing incredible things with the Nuggets he passed Melo on the Nuggets all-time scoring list and he was even able to win a championship yic was doing things that Melo could never do so even melo’s coach trolled Melo when he tweeted at yic saying happy beated to the greatest player to wear number 15 in Denver Hoops history now after that Melo was really feeling the disrespect so we exposed how he really felt about the jersey number did you feel way when they gave joic that 15 bro cuz that was that that’s mellow yeah hell yeah did you think it was a petty maneuver yeah it was a p it was a petty maneuver it it wasn’t like oh we got numbers to choose from it was like here take this one you got 15 ooh why you keep joking now I’m I’m gone now so now I’m seven now like seven is the new thing is going on like 15 so now just start thinking oh this is because this is the narrative that they put out there he wanted to leave he wanted to do this but why would you disrespect by even offering that and after Melo said all of that the situation went viral all over the news so even sports legends criticize them hard Melo you do realize this guy was a a second round European player that when he got drafted they was in the middle of a Taco Bell commercial who thought Nicole yic was gonna arguably be one of a top 10 player when it’s all said and done because they thought that they took him number one overall the guy was in the second round and plus melow you forget and nobody’s going to remember you wore 15 I’m sorry Melo but nobody’s going to remember you wore 15 but you’re a Nick player your career is New York Knicks your jersey is in the Raptors in the garden but all right what did joic himself have to say about the jersey number controversy when did you start wearing 15 and and how did you choose that number I think I’m using it in my whole life in my hometown I was wearing 15 were youare wore 15 before you came here you know of course he was he was a great player yeah yic ain’t really trying to beef with anybody to be honest regardless all because he’s pretty much covering up melo’s entire nuggets Legacy Denver fans will most likely never buy melo’s number 15 Jersey again losing in millions of dollars but controversies that expensive are the opposite of what yic gets involved in usually he’s doing sentimental things like when he gave his biggest fan the best day of their life this is soua kokotovic and as you can see she’s always supporting the Nuggets especially your favorite player yic but it wasn’t always smiles and laughs when it came to Souza so when Souza was born it was a joyful time our first kid and then as the time went by we noticed some delays and when Souza turned four she started half day kindergarten and that’s when the teachers raised a question and that’s when it got real you know it’s our first kid so we’re thinking like she’s going in to learn how to share and color and you know make friends and all this stuff so we had really high expectations and it did not turn out that way and I remember going into this meeting and them telling us you know we we knew there was something wrong but we we weren’t expecting these type of results and she’ll make great strides in life but she’ll never be like the other kids and that was heartbreaking to hear she was diagnosed with developmental delay which is a very broad diagnosis cuz of a brain issue that slowed down her ability to learn and caused problems with her speech her disability held her back from being a normal kid but what really made her feel like life would be okay was her love for sports and yage little did she you know though her biggest dream was about to become a reality Souza was selected as part of a Special Olympics program to hang out at the Nuggets arena for a day she also got to take shots on the court and even got tickets to the game where she got to watch yic dominate up close well and he wants to help each other out Minnesota team likes to hard for post position level of physicality yic in the paint counted and won but after the win things were about to get more special when yic came out to surprise her they not only talked and took plenty of picks he sent her home with a sign Jersey so it was definitely the best night of her life man yic is honestly more than a basketball player he’s a hero but not every story has a happy ending like when NBA players were almost killed there’s NBA legends who got stabbed got blown up by fireworks and an entire team almost died in a 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Nikola Jokic is more than MVP’s, championships, and crazy plays..
He almost DIED by a nuclear explosion, he’s got ADDICTIONS.. he’s even got beef with an NBA legend over a $100,000,000 SCANDAL! Yeah.. obviously there’s a lot of things you didn’t know about Jokic..

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