The Miami Heat spent its 2022 first-round selection — No. 27 overall — on 19-year-old Serbian forward Nikola Jovic, the player with the eerily similar name to reigning back-to-back NBA MVP Nikola Jokic. Differentiating between the two names will admittedly be an initial obstacle for all of us, including myself, to overcome — but I digress.
So this Jovic-Jokic confusion apparently is going to take a bit to sort out… pic.twitter.com/rgJ56qEGjN
— Surya Fernandez (@SuryaHeatNBA) June 24, 2022
There was plenty of pre-draft speculation that the Heat were ultimately going to trade out of the pick, specifically trading back to pile up the extra assets.