NBA star Nikola Jokic admitted he slept through his own draft night, highlighting his indifferent attitude toward the league's spotlight. Despite becoming one of basketball's greatest players, the former 46th pick preferred watching highlights on
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46th pick in the NBA Draft, rookie with minimal expectations from the public that became one of the best players to ever play this game.
One of the most frequent stereotypes about Jokic is that he doesn't care too much for basketball when he's not on the court himself.
Whilst that is far away from truth, it must be acknowledged that there are some things that basketball brings you with itself that Jokic finds unnecessary.
For example, the spotlight of the NBA Draft.
In a rare one-on-one interview that he did for the X and O's Chat and that's supposed to be published later during the day, a part of it was released with Jokic talking about the moment when he was Drafted:
"The Draft itself, the moment when I was drafted, my brother was living in New York, he's calling me on the phone, celebrating, I'm sleeping, man," he started.
"I'm like, who's even thinking about that? 17-year old me, just thinking how will I wrestle with these guys."
Serbian big man was also asked to clarify did he watch NBA as a kid:
"I mean, I wasn't watching actively, but I looked at highlights, best moments, there was that NBA Action show, thank God, we all were watching that," Jokic concluded.
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