Right after winning his first-ever NBA championship and bringing Denver its first title, Nuggets big man Nikola Jokic was expectedly mum about winning it all. In his walk-off interview with ESPN, Jokic said the job was done, so “we can go home now.”
Jokic wasn’t kidding. In his postgame interview, Jokic wondered what day the Nuggets championship parade will be in Denver. Well, Jokic thought his last day of work was Monday, and it was clear he wanted to go back to his home in Serbia. When asked about the parade, he had a hilarious reaction to hearing the parade is Thursday, adding “I need to go home.” Take a look here. Jokic did go on to give an answer about how he feels.
“I mean, we succeed in our jobs, and we won the whole thing,” Jokic said. “It’s an amazing feeling. But like I said before, it’s not everything in the world. I think. Okay, I won it. Okay, not I, we won it. But I think it’s not the most important thing in the world still. There is a bunch of things that I like, that I like to do. Probably that’s a normal thing. Nobody likes his job, or maybe they do. They’re lying.”
Jokic etched his name into NBA history Monday after the Nuggets downed the Heat in Game 5. The two-time MVP has the first ring of his career, and as long as he stays healthy, he can keep adding to his hardware. It’s just that Jokic’s reactions to certain things — like the championship parade — end up as funny footnotes and part of his brand.
Jokic earned Finals MVP after a dominant performance throughout the playoffs, leading the league in points, rebounds and assists in a first. The Finals MVP was the lone accolade he hadn’t picked up in his career, but now he’s checked that box off, as well. The Nuggets should be right back to being title contenders as long as Jokic leads the way as he’s now a proven playoff performer.
“It’s a good feeling when you know that you did something that nobody believes,” Jokic said. “And it’s just us, it’s just the organization, Denver Nuggets believing in us, every player believing in each other. And I think that’s the most important thing.”
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