{"id":296708,"date":"2025-07-27T20:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T20:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296708\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T20:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T20:10:13","slug":"nba-star-nikola-jokic-celebrates-winning-serbian-horse-race-in-viral-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296708\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Star Nikola Jokic Celebrates Winning Serbian Horse Race in Viral Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Denver Nuggets star center Nikola Jokic fell short of winning the NBA championship this year, but he has a new reason to celebrate this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Jokic, who is a longtime horse racer, watched one of his horses win a race in his native Serbia on Sunday. The victory moved the three-time NBA MVP to tears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">After getting the emotions out of the way, Jokic celebrated by treating his horse trainers and jockey to a champagne shower before pouring some on himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Jokic also gave a post-race interview in which he was visibly giddy over the win:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Sunday&#8217;s win adds another feather in the cap for Jokic and his successful Dream Catcher horse stable. The 30-year-old is committed to his side career as a horse racer, and it can be expected that he will stick with it long after his basketball days are over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denver Nuggets star center Nikola Jokic fell short of winning the NBA championship this year, but he has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-296708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114927017867074080","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}