{"id":98925,"date":"2025-07-28T08:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T08:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/98925\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T08:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T08:41:09","slug":"unbridled-joy-nikola-jokic-overcome-with-emotion-after-horse-racing-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/98925\/","title":{"rendered":"Unbridled joy: Nikola Joki\u0107 overcome with emotion after horse racing victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nikola Joki\u0107 explains passion for horse racing: &#8216;Just being around the horses &#8230; I think it&#8217;s the best sport in the world.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Denver Nuggets superstar Nikola Joki\u0107 is a champion once again \u2014 this time as a horse owner at a harness racing event in his native Serbia.<\/p>\n<p>The normally stoic Joki\u0107 could barely contain his emotions as his horse, Demon Dell\u2019Est, ran away with the victory down the final stretch at the annual Du\u017eijanac event in Subotica, Serbia.<\/p>\n<p>After his horse crossed the finish line, Joki\u0107 put his head in his hands in tears while soaking in the moment. He then hopped a fence to celebrate on the track with his team, still visibly overcome with emotion. And in the winner\u2019s circle, Joki\u0107 helped lift his driver and sprayed champagne on the group and himself.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A happy Jok \ud83e\udd79<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arenasport_tv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@arenasport_tv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KIPctdSHqh\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/KIPctdSHqh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuggets\/status\/1949577904989291003?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Joki\u0107\u2019s passion for horses is well documented. His father Branislav runs a local harness racing club on the outskirts of Sombor, Serbia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/nikola-jokics-hometown-in-serbia-celebrates-nuggets-1st-nba-title\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In an AP interview<\/a> after the Nuggets won the 2023 NBA championship, Branislav Joki\u0107 said that although his son has trained hard to reach the NBA, his mind was always set on a love of horses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe started growing, both in height and in size, and he started to become aware that he could be a basketball player, but he had a great desire in those days. He would say, \u2018Dad, I want to become a horseman.\u2019 And I used to tell him: \u2018Son, become a basketball player first, and you\u2019ll become a great horseman later.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, he can do both at the same time.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nikola Joki\u0107 explains passion for horse racing: &#8216;Just being around the horses &#8230; I think it&#8217;s the best&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":98926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[64762,1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-98925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-jokic-horse-racing","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114929971084963095","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98925","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=98925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}