Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic (Credit: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports)
Nikola Jokic has had an incredible MVP deserving season carrying the Denver Nuggets to a top seed in the West. Here is his story on how he went from an unknown foreign big to one of the most dominant centers.
Nikola Jokic was born in 1995 in Sombor, Serbia, a war-torn country by the time he was four years old. He found basketball through his older brothers and ended up playing professionally at the age of 17. At first, his coaches at Mega Basket junior team, his professional team in Serbia, did not let him practice because he was overweight.