Less than a week after leading the Denver Nuggets to their first NBA championship, Nikola Jokic was back in his Serbian hometown on Sunday to enjoy his big passion of horse racing.
Jokic became the first player in history to lead the league in points , rebounds and assists in a single postseason.Less than a week after leading the Denver Nuggets to their first NBA championship, Jokic was back in his hometown of Sombor on Sunday to enjoy his big passion of horse racing.
A billboard reading "Welcome Home MVP" showed Jokic with his No. 15 Nuggets jersey, also depicting galloping horses.in time for Sunday's races after the team's victory parade in Denver on Thursday. He joked that he would ask Nuggets president Josh Kroenke to lend him the team plane to make sure he arrived on time.This was a special day for the Sombor hippodrome.
Serbian NBA basketball player Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets attends a horse race in his hometown of Sombor in native Serbia, on June 18, 2023. Jokic and his team the Denver Nuggets won their first NBA title on June 12, 2023.
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