Why Serbia Winning EuroBasket Would Be a HUGE DEAL for Nikola Jokic

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4.9 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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DNVR Nuggets Harrison Wind & Brendan Vogt Break Down why Nikola Jokic Winning EuroBasket with Serbia is a HUGE DEAL for his legacy, Nuggets, & More. Serbia and Nikola Jokić are chasing EuroBasket 2025 gold—a trophy the program hasn’t lifted since the early-2000s Yugoslavia era—making the stakes for Jokić’s international legacy massive. We break down why a EuroBasket title matters so much to Serbian fans, how Bogdan Bogdanović’s hamstring absence shifts even more responsibility onto Jokić, and what that momentum could mean for the Denver Nuggets heading into the NBA season. From Group A battles in Riga to the knockout rounds, here’s how a gold would stamp Jokić forever in Serbia while supercharging his all-time résumé.

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0:00.0	All right, so Serbia and Nicole Yokech, they've got a great chance to win Eurobasket.
0:04.1	How big of a deal do you think it would be, though, if they won? Let's just start on the Serbia side of things. We've talked about this before to try to, you know, shine some light on it for Nuggets fans if they didn't know. This is a huge deal. Massive. Massive deal. And the World Cup is the big prize. but Serbia hasn't won a gold medal
0:02.1	in a very long time. Since 2002.
0:04.5	Any gold would do and Europe And the World Cup is the big prize. But Serbia hasn't won a gold medal in a very long time.
0:21.6	Since 2002.
0:22.6	Any gold would do.
0:24.6	And Eurobasket is a big deal.
0:25.6	I think it's a bigger deal than, I'm sorry, I said the World Cup earlier.
0:28.6	I meant the Olympics, I should say, is the top prize.
0:30.6	I think Eurobasket is a bigger deal than the World Cup.
0:33.6	So everyone there, every team, every fan base, every star takes a tremendous
0:38.7	amount of pride in this. And we know how much this means to Serbian fans. And Harrison, we know
0:43.6	how much it means to Yokic. This would be a big deal. The few times we've ever seen Nicole
0:48.7	Yokic get emotional, there's only been, you know, you can count the amount of times that's
0:52.8	happened on your hand, but you might not even get to five.
0:56.1	A few of them have been after winning medals for his country.
1:00.2	That shines a little bit of light about how much this would mean to Yokic and Serbia
1:05.0	and just how much it means to that country to win a medal in an event like this.
1:13.5	You mentioned the fact they haven't won anything since, not anything,
1:15.1	they haven't won a gold medal since 2002.
1:20.7	Winning another gold would be his stamp on his Serbian basketball legacy,
1:25.7	which you know up until this point has left a little bit to be desired.
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