Life is always so wonderful, when you do your best to cling to a thing, you may not be successful, and sometimes unintentional actions will have unexpected gains. In the NBA league, Nuggets center Jokic is such a living example. Although Mr. Yo is already the top center in the league today, the MVP of the 2021 regular season, you can never imagine that he was not as inspirational as we thought as a child.
In 1995, the situation in Serbia, then known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, was volatile, with war being the only theme of life. During the Kosovo War, Serbia was even bombed by NATO for more than 77 days. Jokic recalls the scene when he was four years old: "I remember the air raid sirens, the lights in the bomb shelters were almost always turned off, we were living in the dark, even if it was 9 a.m., everything was turned off. Surviving the jokic family of six, they all survived the war safely!
He didn't have the talent he had since childhood like other legendary stars, not even the slightest love of sports. He didn't like basketball since he was a child, didn't like sports, and was very lazy, this white fat little fat boy had to drink 3L of Coke every day, just like drinking water, plus breakfast and like to eat high-calorie cheese pie, you never think that one day he can become an athlete, let alone say anything shiny.
Because he did not like sports, resulting in a bloated body, it was his father who forced him to go to the NBA and join the basketball training camp. But at that time, jokic was too slow to integrate into the team's normal offensive and defensive conversions, and more time was spent completing his own turnback run on the field, at that time, the name Jokic was a joke in the eyes of others.
Later, Jokic persevered on this path. In 2013, at the age of 18, he could play in the European League for Serbia, averaging 1.8 points and 2 rebounds per game. In 2014, an unknown national, he went to the United States for the first time to compete in preparation for the future draft, but at that time he did not have any vision for the NBA, his goal was only to stay in Europe to play. In the 2014 draft, Jokic was selected by the Denver Nuggets with the 41st pick in the second round, and his brother immediately called Jokic in Serbia, and the phone came with a melancholy voice, yes, the big white fat man went to bed early.
After being drafted by the Denver Nuggets, he didn't go to the United States to play, he didn't speak much English and didn't like to be a star, so he played in Europe for a year. Interestingly, there are no big clubs willing to accept him, this is really damn fate, damn talent, so that Jokic can not spend his life plainly, in order to make a living, had to cross the ocean, forced to come to Denver nuggets.
At that time, the Nuggets did not rely on Jokic as the core, and even so, the team's record was not good, and the Nuggets have not been able to find their own aggressive and complete system. At that time, due to Nurkic's injury, Jokic got a part of the starting opportunity, and found that playing in the NBA was easier than in Europe, and was selected as a rookie for the first time. In the second season, the Nuggets let him start with Nurkic, but it came to a wave of losing streaks. Jokic took the initiative to apply to the coach to play as a substitute, but Nurkic, who fought alone, still could not stop losing consecutively, but Jokic, who came off the bench, played better and better, and finally made the Denver Nuggets management make up their minds to send Nurkic away and let this mediocre fat man come as the core of the team.
The results prove the Denver Nuggets' choice, and basketball is not dominated by the iron men who can fly and jump, nor can they rely on sweat and muscle alone to win. Imaginative brains have redefined the sport of basketball. In the 2018-19 season, the big white fat man led the team all the way to the second place in the West and was elected the NBA's best center. The playoffs led the Denver Nuggets, who were dominated by second-round picks and lost drafts, to 14 games, including a shocking four overtime, playing 65 minutes in one game, setting an NBA record. In the 2019-2020 season, he led the Nuggets to a 1-3 deficit in the Western Conference semifinals, and finally defeated the Clippers 4-3 to advance to the Western Conference Finals, and fought with the Lakers led by LeBron James; won the regular season MVP in the 2020-2021 season, and now leads the team to the Western Conference Semifinals under a single core situation. What you can't imagine is that such a brilliant achievement was actually created by a big fat man.
Now Jokic is one of the most special beings in the NBA, he does not have the muscles of a traditional center player, he is muscular, but the dominance is still there, he has grown 2 meters 13 big, and the ball is more popular than the small guard. He is the most imaginative passer and the most offensively minded organizer. Looking back at the long river of NBA history, there have been many elite passers in the center. Stronger than Bill Walton or Sabonis, they are less magical and ghostly things like Jokic. With a brain propping up a piece of the sky, the Nuggets scraped out a lottery ticket in 2014 that was destined to be a legendary superstar of the Hall of Fame.
Jokic rose from a base salary of 1.47 million to a top salary of 146 million in 5 years, which is a fat man's counterattack. A heartless willow to the present shine, Jokic's life has experienced too many accidents, you say this is luck, maybe this is so, but behind this luck explosion must contain some little-known bitter past. From a fat man who has been ridiculed, to what a moving story it is to become famous now, some people will say that Jokic's success depends entirely on talent, but you must know that the most important thing in the NBA is talent, and those who can go to the top of the tower, in addition to talent, are still awakening and continuous efforts.