Nikola Jokicthree times NBA MVP (2021, 2022 and 2024) and star of the Denver nuggets recently eliminated Of the NBA playoffs, it is considered by many as the best basketball player in the world today.
The 30 -year -old Serbian interior He arrived at the NBA through the back doorbeing selected in the second round of the draft and with serious doubts about its adaptation due to its weight and athletic conditions.
If he bet on someone right now, it would be Nikola Jokic. I call it Joker. I see a lot of the Gasol brothers in him
But Mike MillerJokic's partner in his first two seasons in Denver, he never had doubts about the Serbian and knew how to see his impressive talent from the outset.
“I will tell you a curious anecdote. They passed me from Cleveland to Portland. I bought my Portland contract and went to the Nuggets. I arrived three days late to the preseason camp, so I arrived and sat on the training. That day I did not train. Coach Mike Malone and the Kroenke family, at the end of the training, asked me: Jokic? ' ‘Pardon My Take’.
Mike Miller describes the 'matrix effect' in Jokic: “Everything stops and the game becomes slow for him.”
The 45 -year -old veteran's player remembers what he saw in Jokic that others could not appreciate, that he did better to his teammates: “At that time, he had defects … as his body was not the best. If you look at his old plays of the combine or HOOP summit, it's as if he didn't jump high. But he had never seen a boy as young as if the ball gave him in his hands as in Matrx. Game becomes slow to him. “
This was the huge Nikola Jokic game against the Thunder
“For all young people, the game is very fast and uncontrolled, and that's why they make so many mistakes and veteran coaches do not match them. But Jokic touched his hands and everyone improved,” he said.
Mike Miller already broke a spear in favor of Nikola Jokic in 2016
In 2016 Mike Miller, who throughout his career in the NBA played for Orlando Magic (2000-2003), Memphis Grizzlies (2003-2008 and 2013-2014), Minnesota Timberwolves (2008-2009), Washington Wizards (2009-2010), Miami Heat (2010-2013), Cleveland Cavaliers (2014-2015) and Denver Nuggets (2015-2017), already defended the talent under suspicion of Jokic.
Nikola Jokic, a genius under suspicion in the NBA: “I don't know who is that fat and ugly boy from there, but it is the best by far”
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The star player Denver Nuggets valued the possibility of playing the great appointment of European basketball this summer after falling eliminated in the playoffs.
Jokic, who turned Nuggets into NBA champions, has some averages of 21.8 points, 10.9 rebounds and 7.2 assists in its 10 years in the NBA.
In its last season the Serbian of 2.11 m. and 129 kg. He has achieved the feat of averaging triple-double numbers: 29.6 points, 12.7 rebounds and 10.2 assists.
