Team Serbia has grand plans for the men’s basketball portion of the 2024 Paris Olympics. With three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic in tow, the Serbians expect to, at minimum, get a medal for their efforts in France. Thanks to the Denver Nuggets star’s brilliance, the team is certainly good enough to at least get bronze.
Before any of that happens, though, they might want to make sure their best player actually has his Serbian jersey.
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In a video of Jokic getting ready before Serbia’s exhibition with Australia on Tuesday, the big man is looking for his jersey. And looking. And looking. And looking. Much to Jokic’s evident shock on his face, it was nowhere to be found. Again, Jokic is the main reason Serbia has high basketball hopes for these Olympics in the first place.
Fortunately, someone on the Serbian staff quickly realized their mistake and ran back into the tunnel to get the team’s talisman’s jersey before it was too late:
Looks like someone in the Serbian staff forgot Nikola Jokic's jersey 😅🇷🇸 pic.twitter.com/gvRn8s4Zt6
— BasketNews (@BasketNews_com) July 16, 2024
Phew. Crisis averted!
While Serbia didn’t fare well in an exhibition loss, the national team can rest easy knowing it, eventually, properly clothed the best basketball player in the world for the biggest international tournament on the planet. Next time, someone might want to keep tabs on the Serbian No. 15 in white threads.
They’re pretty important!