CHARLOTTE – All-Star weekend doesn’t allow for much down time.
On top of participating in the Skills Challenge and Sunday’s All-Star Game, Nuggets center Nikola Jokic led dozens of NBA hopefuls through drills and shooting sessions while coaching in the league’s Basketball Without Borders Global Camp on Friday on the campus of Queens University in Charlotte.
Jokic was engaged, teasing and blocking shots of several of the 39 international prospects, but he said he has no coaching in his future.
“No, no,” Jokic said with a laugh. “Just imagine I need to tell someone to do something that he cannot do.