NBA Star reveals the first encounter with Jokic's family: “We have a brother who plays as she plays.”

Nikola Jokic is currently the best basketball player in the world And one of the largest centers in history. The Serbian Big Man has a three-time NBA MVP and 2023 champion with the Denver Nuggets and has already worked out a place in the game's pantheon-and he can climb higher, depending on what it achieves in the coming years. His legacy is already safe and engraved in gold in the annals of basketball history.

But like everyone who reaches global fame, there was a time when nobody had heard of him. In this case it was Marc Gasol who looked back on May 23, 2009 – the date of Darko Milicic's wedding.

Milicic, the Serbian center, was selected in the draft of Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade in 2003 the second overall rank of 2003. About speaking Out of the mud Podcast with his former teammate of Memphis Grizzlies Zach Randolph and Tony Allen, Petrol announced an anecdote from that day about his first contact with the Jokic family – Especially the two brothers of the player, who are known for their fiery personalities and occasional clashes in NBA arenas.

The day on which petrol unknowingly met Jokic

“I am in a wedding in Serbia [Darko Milicic’s] And I see these two boys ” said gasoline and raised the eyebrows in the memory. Randolph jumped in to call her “crazy” and spread alongside everyone. Petrol continued: “Obviously we all celebrate, we are all happy and they come to me and say: 'Hey man! I have a brother who plays as she plays. It is very good, very talented. '

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“I told them:” Hopefully he will do great and cheer “, and we drank Rakia and continued to enjoy the night.”

But the story didn't end there.

A few years later – two or three, according to petrol, although Jokic only in 2015, six years after the milical wedding, Jokic was only reached in 2015 – a second chapter came.

“We played in Denver. I warmed up and saw how two boys come down the stairs, and they just scream: 'Marc! Marc!' I look up and think: “Hey shit, what do you do here?” “

Then Marc, about whom they talked about Nikola Jokic.

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