{"id":100209,"date":"2025-07-28T20:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/100209\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T20:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T20:06:09","slug":"from-mvp-to-the-winners-circle-nikola-jokic-brought-to-tears-as-his-horse-wins-in-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/100209\/","title":{"rendered":"From MVP To The Winner\u2019s Circle: Nikola Joki\u0107 Brought To Tears As His Horse Wins In Serbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paulickreport.com\/news\/people\/from-mvp-to-the-winners-circle-nikola-joki\u0107-brought-to-tears-as-his-horse-wins-in-serbia-\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:From MVP To The Winner\u2019s Circle: Nikola Joki\u0107 Brought To Tears As His Horse Wins In Serbia;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">From MVP To The Winner\u2019s Circle: Nikola Joki\u0107 Brought To Tears As His Horse Wins In Serbia <\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/paulickreport.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Paulick Report;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Paulick Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Denver Nugget&#8217;s versatile big man and three-time NBA MVP Nikola Joki\u0107 was brought to tears watching his horse win a race at Du\u017eijanca in Subotica, Serbia on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>From the translated video, Joki\u0107\u2014who races under the ownership name Dream Catcher\u2014watched as his horse won the second race on the card. In the video, you can see Joki\u0107 hugging the horse and celebrating with champagne.<\/p>\n<p>Joki\u0107, also known as \u201cJoker,\u201d is a lifelong harness racing fan. He first got into the sport around age 12 when his parents took him to the track. A friend\u2019s dad was involved in racing, and one thing led to another\u2014Jokic was hooked.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 NBA Champion has celebrated plenty of big wins before, but watching his horse cross the finish line clearly meant more. One looked like work. The other? Pure passion.<\/p>\n<p>Post race interview with subtitles: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/denvernuggets\/comments\/1maw9so\/nikola_jokic_post_race_interview_with_english\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nikola Jokic post race interview with English subtitles;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Nikola Jokic post race interview with English subtitles<\/a> (via Reddit r\/denvernuggets)<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This story was originally reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/paulickreport.com\/news\/people\/from-mvp-to-the-winners-circle-nikola-joki\u0107-brought-to-tears-as-his-horse-wins-in-serbia-\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Paulick Report;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Paulick Report<\/a> on Jul 28, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From MVP To The Winner\u2019s Circle: Nikola Joki\u0107 Brought To Tears As His Horse Wins In Serbia originally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":100210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1260,3369,65357,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-100209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-nikola-jokic","10":"tag-paolo-banchero","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114932664495267311","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}