LOOK: Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic hosts teammate Aaron Gordon in Serbia to watch horse racing at his home track

The Denver Nuggets secured their first NBA identify previous this yr, powered by means of probably the most very best group chemistry in the league that’s not simply restricted to the court docket. NBA Finals MVP Nikola Jokic, who is as large partial to horses as he his basketball, received a horse racing in his place of origin of Sombor, Serbia with teammate Aaron Gordon making the shuttle around the globe to toughen his teammate.

Jokic has been noticed using his motorbike to Hippodrome Sombor —  his native horse racing track. Once at the track, Jokic and Gordon cheered on Jokic’s horse to victory, and Gordon posed along Jokic for a photograph with the successful horse following the race.

Jokic owns a number of horses, however made it transparent that he deliberate to purchase every other one if the Nuggets received an NBA championship this previous season. In an interview with ESPN, he was once asked about buying another horse, and said “Probably, even if I lose.”

Jokic’s father, Branislav up to now told the Associated Press that he had to convince Jokic to be “a basketball player first and a great horseman later.” 

When Jokic was once a young person, he in short give up basketball in order to pursue a profession in horse racing. During an interview with SLAM, he published that he completed in fourth position throughout a horse race in his more youthful years.

Following the Nuggets’ championship parade in June, Jokic returned to his home nation of Serbia and has spent a considerable amount of time at the track this summer time.