ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Nikola Stojkovic wasn’t about to let himself get elbowed out of the way. He’d waited too long, traveled too far.
He was posted up on the proverbial lower block, if Nikola Jokic was the basket. “I wanted to position myself well,” Stojkovic explained afterward. And he had succeeded. At the heart of an interview scrum months in the making, now was the moment of truth. Then he started feeling this nudge.
“I had one guy who was, I don’t know, holding his phone, his microphone, and he was like jabbing me with his elbow,” said Stojkovic, who reports for Mozzart Sport in Serbia.