Nikola Jokić Talks Nuggets Game 1 Win w/ Shaq & Chuck | 2023 NBA Finals

Can you hear us Nicole? Yes, plug it in, it was available, they hadn't plugged it in. Wow, I think she can hear us now. She hadn't plugged it in. You can listen to us now. I guess so, congratulations on the victory. You even seem quite unfazed. in a Finals

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, Nicola, quite unfazed for the moment, there was something different about your day today when you woke up and realized you were going to play in this series for the first time. To be honest, I felt a little excited, but when the

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started. It was just a normal game and I told him, I told my wife, no what I don't know, I just can't wait for a game to start, just a minute, you know you're a big dominant man, how do you decide?

Score or not, I'm going to talk to my teammates because this is the first time I've seen you play live. Second time meeting I met you in Dallas and I want to meet your older brothers. We'll talk later. They are right there. but yeah, how do you decide in the game? Because Charles and I and even Grant were the first to score. How do you say? You know what I'm not going to shoot six and seven minutes in the final game to get my guys involved. To be honest, I don't decide, it's just that I take what the game brings me, you know, AJ had an incredible first quarter, he dominated the pain in the first, uh, first quarter and I was like that was an advantage, you know what do we need.

Give them the ball and he actually scored, he was six for six in the first quarter and I never, ever plotted the score or whatever, I just played the game and see what's going to happen. Well, first I have two things to give you and the coach. Malone, greetings, I said before the game, you all have some tight haircuts, you all have those things, guys, and by the way, you have hair, that's right, that's right, but my second question is what the hell did you do it for? ? Nine days I enjoyed Finally I was home for nine days There you see I have a sunburn so I was in a pool I have a pool so I was in the pool I was filming with my family uh I think we actually did a good job , we had a couple of days off and we still had a couple of conditioning workouts, so I think it looks like we're staying in good shape and I think our Felipe, our strength coaches and trainers did a very good job in management. uh, to get arrested and still, uh, still, uh, kind of keep it together, hey Nicole, obviously you guys were the number one seed in the Western Conference, but coming into the postseason, people really don't like you.

I had you as the team I represented. the west and I just don't know, that resentment on your shoulder is something to show, was it something that you guys just ignored or was it that you used it as motivation in the locker room to think, to be honest, we didn't? We even talked about it, we, uh, I think we know as a team that we're capable of doing something. In fact, it has been a training ground ever since. It felt something different in the locker room. You know the guys were talking. The boys were going out to dinner.

We go out together and I think that's important for the locker room and the team chemistry from day one. Something different happened than the last eight years. I think what makes you very dangerous is that you don't show many emotions, but I know you are super. excited tell me how excited are you first win three more wins ago you will be a champion how are you? how do you stay the same? Keel as you are now to be honest. I'm not excited to be honest. I'm. really focused and because I know what they are capable of, I mean they beat some really good teams, teams have had better records than us and as a team we are not relaxed, it's really important.

For us, especially because they won the first game in each round and we as a team have a lot of respect for the Miami Heat and our focus and our mentality is not to relax just to get better. You know, we all marvel. You are your talent, you are playing to build what you have done throughout the season, the last few seasons. I'm just curious growing up overseas, who are the guys you wanted to include in your game later because we haven't really seen them? a great in the game like you, I think it's Shaq, thank you very much, thank you brother, now I'm kidding, I appreciate that, to be honest, I went back to Serbia.

I didn't follow the NBA much, we know the contest a lot. of divots because they were the Russian batteries, they were like the one who went to the MBA for the first time and opened the doors to all the others, let's say European players or players from Slavia from Mexico, but when I came here it was Timmy Duncan, it was LaMarcus. Aldridge, it was Borisdale, you definitely know those kind of guys. Now Serbia is not a bad player. Basketball is a. I see Boris Dio there. I see that basketball is obviously a big problem in Serbia.

You have an NBA history. players with good results internationally, can you give our American audience an idea of ​​how important it is to not only have you in the final, but for you to perform at this level in the final right now? I have to be honest. I don't know, but I know. Many I receive messages and people from home tell me that people organize themselves and watch the games at two or three in the morning right now instead of four in the morning and they are still watching the game. and I think that shows that they probably love seeing someone from their hometown, let's say, play and perform at a high level.

Are you trying to tell us to walk around Serbia like a normal guy? Not the first two weeks, I'm in my hometown. in my hometown the first three first two weeks from time to time I take a photo of the day with everyone and then you run out of people to take photos with but then I walk around like you have them all, there aren't many people where I go So one last thing, I don't give a lot of big praise, but that's true, all the praise in the world, brother, thank you very much, it means a lot, it should be very, very, very, impressive to see, thank you.

For the most part, it's just your average Penny White. I show it, but you know, I give it to you, great living man. Cherish the moment when you know what you are now a member of the great living man. There you go, there you go, come try. I'm a big man here, America, everyone else, no, good game, brother, congratulations.