The ribbons fall, the champion belongs to the Nuggets, and the FMVP belongs to yokedge without any suspense.

From the celebration after the game to the award ceremony and then to the dressing room to spray champagne to celebrate, others were gambol and 3 feet excited, but jokiki never exaggerated celebration movements and remarks, even laughter from the root of the ear is rare. He was calm and calm, as if he was never disturbed by the red dust and prosperity.

Perhaps, this is the highest level of winners.

From the show No. 41 to the achievement of MVP, FMVP and championship Grand Slam, jokich spent 9 years. Personal Struggle is of course important, but in this magical journey, there were many noble people standing behind yokiki, who helped yokiki become a Grand Slam winner from a small fat man who was not favored.

One morning in 2012, laznatovic read newspapers as usual, studied some technical statistics of competitions, and looked for his potential customers.

Laznatovic is one of the most influential basketball brokers in Europe. His BeoBasket agency has represented many European stars. On that day, laznatovic noticed yokiki, who played terrorist data, and he immediately sent scouts to investigate. The feedback from the scout report was actually not good, but lasznatovic decided to sign yokki. He went to songbull to meet the yokki family. At that time, laznatovic had not even seen the yokiki game with his own eyes.

In December, 2012, lasznatovic signed yokiki and operated him to Meijia men’s basketball. Mega men’s basketball is one of the strongest teams in Serbia. They sent many players to NBA.

When I joined mega men’s basketball, yokiki was very weak and even forced to suspend the training. First, I polished my body to prepare for the subsequent high-intensity training. At that time, jokiki couldn’t even do push-ups, and the tablet support could last for 20 seconds. The coach of mega men’s basketball forced yokiki to suspend training with balls and focus on the Devil training on the body. During that time, jokki, who could not touch the ball, felt very miserable.

Later, yokiki gradually became able to play, but he admitted: “In the first year, I always felt very tired and my brain felt unable to think. At the end of the game, I felt that I had been hollowed out.”

Mega Men’s Basketball did not lack patience or resources in cultivating yokki. Team coach Milosevic took the heavy responsibility of bringing yokki. Milosevic had the reputation of “Serbian Barkley” in the player era. He was a short insider, but he had a solid low pace and played hard. Milosevic not only imparted his low steps to yokiki, but also allowed him to send some crazy passes and develop organizational skills.

“Compared with scoring, yokiki enjoys passing more. Creativity is the difference between him and other stars. This is why I won’t stop him when he sends out all kinds of passes. Few players can play like him, so why should I stop him?” Milosevic said. Yokiki can become a super center to attack and spread, and Milosevic has played an important role.

In June, 2013, lafare-Zhu Ke noticed yokeqi. At that time, Zhu Ke was still an unpaid intern of the Jazz team. He was writing a scout report of European players to fight closer to realizing his dream. Zhu Ke watched a large number of competitions and studied various data. One of the objects he studied was jokedge.

In the U19 World Cup that year, Zhu Ke watched the first battle between the United States and Serbia on the spot. In that match, Jokic was an opponent with the current Nuggets teammate Aron Gordon. At that time, Zhu Ke’s scouting report against yokki did not praise him in a wild way. In Zhu Ke’s works, yokki was a unprocessed Jade yuan, and he had the opportunity to play a famous role in overseas leagues in the future, but he never thought that he would discuss the prospect of yokiki in NBA one year later.

A month later, Zhu Ke got the contract of nuggets and officially became the overseas scout of nuggets. As jokki’s performance in the European league is getting better and better, and he participated in the Nike basketball summit in 2014, the Nuggets are more and more interested in yokki.

“We began to get to know jokedge seriously and put him into consideration in the draft, and we began to consider his future draft prospects more seriously,” Zhu Ke revealed.

But as you know, the prospect of the yokedge talent show at that time was not good. Even though yokedge showed a high basketball IQ, outstanding ability to finish the basket and excellent passing ability in the training of Nike basketball summit, traditional scouts would still use “poor sports ability”, too slow describes yokiki. Moreover, in that game, yokiki only got 5 points and 7 rebounds in the official game. In the interview, Jokic said that NBA is still a little far away, and it may be more reliable to go to European giants, such as Barcelona and Real Madrid.

The Nuggets did not have an eye on predicting that jokiki would become an MVP in the future, but because Connelly, then the general manager of the Nuggets, had been an overseas scout for many years and had a special liking for international players. At that time, canisovas, the deputy general manager of the team, once dug up Mark Gasol, who had the same poor athletic ability in Spain, so the Nuggets always paid attention to yokiki.

This point has been proved by the 2010 draft conference. The Nuggets held the 11th sign in hand and finally traded with the bull for the 15th and 19th signs, choosing nurkiki and Gary Harris respectively. If the Nuggets were really so optimistic about jokiki, it would not be possible to wait until the 41st order to choose him.

In particular, before the draft, lasznatovic had already finished the investigation by announcing jokki’s withdrawal from the draft. After receiving protest calls from several teams, lasznatovic confirmed that jokki would definitely be selected by a certain team, but no one knows that the 41th sign of the nuggets is enough.

Inside the Nuggets, members of the management and scouts had a heated discussion. Connelly admitted that they still had many choices. Finally, they finalized jokedge. To this day, when Connelly was praised for helping the Nuggets to choose jokiki, he still mentioned “luck”. Connelly’s original words were: “They are all absurd. We still have two picks before choosing jokedge. We could have chosen him earlier, which was all luck.”

After being selected, jokich did not log on to NBA immediately, but played in China for another year. In the summer of 2014, after being selected, jokiki went to the famous P3 sports laboratory to test and reshape his body in all directions. When he returned to the domestic league, he became a different beast.

In 2015, jokki officially landed in NBA. At this time, jokki had developed more muscles and was in better physical condition than a year ago. However, in the NBA full of jumping men, yokedge’s athletic ability is still not enough, and his body size is still beyond the standard. His heavy weight bears a burden on yokedge’s back and knees, sometimes he feels uncomfortable after the game.

It was Eisenberg, the nugget strength trainer, who helped yokiki solve the weight problem. After each game, it was necessary to practice strength regardless of how long yokiki played. Yokedge changed his diet. When he drank three liters of cola a day, he no longer touched carbonated drinks and beer, nor did he match snacks when playing video games. Only when jokiki’s mother came to America from Serbia to visit relatives can jokiki break the ring, but it is only limited to drinking some orange juice and tasting a few dishes made by his mother.

From 10 pounds, to 20 pounds, and then to 30 pounds, yokedge’s weight has been declining, and its body shape has undergone visible changes. During the outbreak shutdown in 2020, when jokiki and tennis star Djokovic appeared together, ESPN reporters could not even distinguish jokiki and Djokovic from their body shape.

These are all the preparations yokki made to base himself on NBA. The real turning point of his career came before Christmas 2016. At that time, the Nuggets had a poor record, and the two-tower test of joki and nurki failed. For the sake of the team, yokki took the initiative to apply for a substitute. But after the Nuggets lost to the Lone Ranger with a difference of 20 points, Malone made a decision to change the fate of joki and nuggets.

“After that game, I came home and thought, as a center, jokiki entered the best rookie team, but I was asking him to play a substitute, and I was wavering between letting him play number four or number five. In the end, I made up my mind that jokiki was our starting center. Since then, our attack has started, and we have won constantly, and everything has changed.” Malone recalled.

“This is the best decision I have ever made. This is the decisive moment in the history of the nuggets.” Malong’s words are not exaggerated at all.

When the Nuggets won the championship, their idea of building a team was repeatedly mentioned. Like the Spurs and Warriors of that year, they reached the championship level through free-agent signing and trading reinforcement through the talent show to lay the foundations. People all say that the Nuggets that build teams patiently and do not rush for success represent the purest basketball.

This kind of thinking is indeed replicable. However, where can I find such an epoch-making superstar who showed up on the 41st?

From this perspective, the success of Nuggets cannot be replicated.