{"id":692967,"date":"2026-03-30T18:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/692967\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T18:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:00:20","slug":"nikola-jokics-reaction-to-caitlin-clarks-praise-a-smirk-and-one-liner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/692967\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Jokic&#8217;s reaction to Caitlin Clark&#8217;s praise? A smirk and one liner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-player-guid=\"5ec40e1c-3104-322e-b80f-f358ea26aad4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/4433403\/caitlin-clark\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caitlin Clark<\/a> offered <a data-player-guid=\"22f57511-06ae-1587-f01b-33965365ce0d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3112335\/nikola-jokic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikola Jokic<\/a> high praise Sunday night, though the NBA star had a tongue-in-cheek explanation of the motive behind her comments.<\/p>\n<p>Clark appeared on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Sunday Night Basketball&#8221; pregame show ahead of the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c4aceb39-0eb9-a30b-1120-9cb5b12b677a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/den\/denver-nuggets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> matchup with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"77a8546f-24bf-a333-8161-bf9f75396c49\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/gs\/golden-state-warriors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> to give her thoughts on the game. When discussing Jokic, Clark was effusive in her praise for the star Serbian big.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/48312312\/caitlin-clark-indiana-fever-lebron-james-los-angeles-lakers-photographs\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/r1634099_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Honestly, he&#8217;s probably my favorite player to watch,&#8221; Clark <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBA__Courtside\/status\/2038391599705526413\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a>. &#8220;And I think he&#8217;s the best player in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked about Clark&#8217;s comments after the game, Jokic offered a simple explanation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have the same agent,&#8221; Jokic said with a smirk. &#8220;That&#8217;s why she said it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, Jokic&#8217;s performance in the game lent credence to Clark&#8217;s commentary. He scored 25 points to go with 15 rebounds and eight assists as the Nuggets beat the Warriors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/game\/_\/gameId\/401810945\/warriors-nuggets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">116-93<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark offered Nikola Jokic high praise Sunday night, though the NBA star had a tongue-in-cheek explanation of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":692968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-692967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116319435764103737","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692967","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=692967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}