Nikola Jokic, The Least American MVP (johnwilmeswords the contrast of Jokic's monastic approach in an over-sauced media landscape that reached hilarious new heights with him winning his first ring)
Looming in the stands during all of his Denver Nuggets games are Nikola Jokic’s two gigantic brothers. Strahinja, the oldest, looks especially like a guy Steven Seagal struggles to beat up in a penultimate fight scene, but Nemanja fits the bill as well. Many have recently discovered these fearsome two, but they’ve been part of American basketball for longer than their significantly younger brother—who just happens to have won the 2023 NBA Finals MVP trophy.
The result has been a two-time MVP with an aversion for public life that we haven’t seen since the mysterious and stolid Tim Duncan was atop the sport. In the wake of the Denver Nuggets’ championship accomplishment on Monday, the contrast of Jokic’s monastic approach in an over-sauced landscape of media narratives, financial incentives, and performed virtue reached hilarious new heights. He just wanted to go home; back to Serbia, where he can harness-race with his beloved horses.
It would be wrong to view his immediate flight back to his homeland after every season as just something he does to keep himself right for the hardwood, though. He does it because he wants to. When work is over, he is not interested in the semi-formal afterparty, the cocktail hour where impressions still professionally matter and you don’t really get to relax. Work is meaningful, sure, but not so much that he wants to live within its lines any longer than he has to.
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