Biography of Nikola Jokic
Nikola Jokic is an American professional basketball player who is currently playing for a National Basketball Association team named Denver Nuggets.
Nikola Jokic age
Nikole was born in February 19th 1995 in Sombor in Serbia, he is 29 years old. He marks his birthday on 19th day of February every year.
Nikola Jokic family
His father was Banislav Jokic. He also has two brothers named Namanja Jokic and Strahinja Jokic.
Nikola Jokic wife
Nicola is married to his longtime girlfriend named Natalija Jokic in 2020.
Nikola Jokic Career
Nicola began his base rf ball career while still young and in 2014 NBA draft he was selected by the Denver Buggets in the second round. Two years later he was able to be moved to the NBA All-Rookie First Team. During the 2016-2018 season Nikola led the Nuggets to the Semifinals of the Western Conference.
It was after this that he was selected to the All-NBA First Team and also to the First All Star. During the following season of 2019-2020 season, he led his team again to the finals and he also received another honor in All NBA and All-star. At the same he appeared among the top ten list of NBA players in All Star with triple double season in both the regular season and playoffs making him the best player in the entire Europe.
Record
In his first triple double he holds record which he made I’m in 14 minutes and 33 seconds. During the 2016 Summer Olympics Nikola won a Silver medal. He has also been representing the National Team of Serbia and took part in the Serbia U-19 national basketball team and they won a silver medal under the Under-19 2013 FIBA World Championship.
He also represented the in the FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournaments which were 2016 in Belgrade. During this time, he won an MVP honors in the tournaments with a record of average if 7.5 rebound, 2.7 assists and 17.8 points. Having won a silver medal in the semis unfortunately they lost the finals to the United States with 96-66.
He again played for Serbia in 2019 with hopes of winning but unfortunately lost to Argentina. In 2022 Nicola said he would return to the national team in 2022 that’s three years later in the 2023 FIBA world cup qualifiers together with the EuroBasket.
In 2022 Eurobasket he helped Serbia to winning a record of and were also in the first position at the Group D but got overtaken by the Italy and he also gathered himself a good record of average 2 steals 13 rebound 32 points and 4 assists. And in just 6 games he was named the NBA Mos Valuable player for both the 2020-2021 season and 2021-2022 seasons
Nikola Jokic Net worth
His Net worth is estimated to be at around $30 million as of 2023.