By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Denver Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokic was too immersed in a video game when the call from his wife Natalija arrived to remind him that the 2022 All-Star Game starters are about to be announced.
Jokic had to press the “pause” button to hear was what hardly news for him (or anyone): That he’s named an All-Star for the fourth time in his career. Then he immediately returned to his video game.
“I was playing a game with my friend and Natalija called me: ‘Oh we gonna watch this together.’ And I was playing the game and I was like ‘Ugghh’ And I was kinda watching on the phone with Natalija and I was playing the video game and then after they select me I say ‘Oh, bye-bye.’ After my video game.”
Priorities first.
The most Nikola-like reaction ever to finding out he was named an All-Star starter? pic.twitter.com/9FIWwbuTW4
— Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) January 29, 2022
This is the fourth consecutive season that Jokic will play in the All-Star game and second straight that he’s among the starters. The Serbian center is averaging 26.2 points, 13.8 rebounds and 7.7 assists in the season overall while registering 12 triple-doubles so far this season. He’s had half of them in January, the only center do ever record so many in one month after Wilt Chamberlain.
Jokic wasn’t at home with Natalija to watch the All-Star news together since the Nuggets are on a road-trip that has so far produced three out of the team’s last four straight wins. After beating the Detroit Pistons (twice), the Brooklyn Nets and the New Orleans Pelicans, Denver will next face reigning champions Milwaukee Bucks Sunday (30/1) in a matchup between the two top European players in the NBA right now: Jokic and Giannis Antetokounmpo.