Nikola Jokic Admits to HATING His Job After Winning the NBA Finals | The Dan LeBatard Show w/Stugotz
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ค. 2024
- After two hours of minimal NBA Finals coverage we discuss Nikola Jokic's comments after winning his first NBA title where he admitted to hating his job and just wanting to go home to Serbia and his desire to skip the parade. We then talk about Jokic's horses and Greg Cote's famous horse race.
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No he doesn't hate his job: he hates all of the BS surrounding his job. This for him is like forced attendance at the office Christmas party.
So fcking true. These guys are obviously clowns 🤡 😅 saying nuggets didnt play championship game. They locked the heat with perfect defence.
@@Boshkovich The Nuggets don't have great 1-on-1 defenders like Claxton, Giannis or Embiid, but they play great team defense with MPJ, AG, Jokic etc. They are completely blocking passing lanes and trapping the guy with the ball and forcing him to take tough shots.
And if the Nuggets didn't play a championship game what does it say about the Celtics and Bucks. One went down 3-0 and the other got gentlemen swept.
Exactly ..we all hate BS office politics let’s be real. At least some do.
🎯
Ok
I love the idea of the best player in the league having the same attitude towards his job as the mailman. Makes it more relatable
Karl Malone !
Mailman used to be a good job with good benefits. Not sure now but ya Joker gives 0 F"s 😂
Except on payday
You think the Joker would work as hard and as much as he does to be better at his job if he didn't like it?
Jokic let someone else hold on to his championship MVP trophy ... and rather held onto to his little daughter throughout the entire celebration on the floor.
I'm retired military and spent time on many deployments. The best feeling in the world is when the pilot comes over the intercom and says "You have just landed in the United States" so I can relate to Jokić.
They couldn't show him with his kid? Hugging his teammates and his family? Pouring beer on someone's head? Throwing Murray into the pool? Dude looked pretty happy to me if you don't pick out stuff and create a narrative about it. Dude does not hate his job he just wants nothing to do with pomp and circumstance.
Yes. They are disrespectful idiots.
He hates the spotlight. He loves basketball and his team
He loves the money it pays him and that’s about it.
Jokic joylessly "spraying" the 🍾 is easily the funniest clip I've seen all year 😅😂👌🏾👌🏾
Most flaccid champagne ever! 😂
He actually drank the first one instead of spraying it lol. Man wastes no opportunity
Hey don't plan nothing on the weekend we have team bilding on the farm... Wtf nooooooooooooo
Jokic won that game solely so he could go home for the horse race. That is dominance.
No he wanted the jet so it could get him home faster AFTER the parade. He cares about it FOR HIS TEAM OF BROTHERS. NOT for the media. He LOVES his teammates.
He doesn't hate it. He just needs a break to love it again. Lets be real, it is not a hobby anymore. These players train every day so much. Whether they like it or not. Training is hard and it is programmed, and nobody likes anything being so programmed: weights, running, jumping, more and more reps, playing basketball and shooting is just 10% of training. Then, there is diet, pressure, mental strength must be on a high level as well... So, before someone says "he is hating it", he should try to understand this "job" first.
Well put
Joker is a breath of fresh air with all these superstar divas coming into the league most of them are clowns
No baby mamas or guns. Send Zion and Ja to Jokic' stable for the summer.
@@user-ti2me2br8gOh you have a problem with Black people, now do all those white politicians who pose with guns.
You have no idea how and what winning the World Championship means to Jokic. What he expresses to the media is not necessarily what he feels. I guarantee Joker is thrilled for his teammates, his coaches, the fans, his family, and his native countrymen.
Jokic is funny as shit with a mega dry sense of humor + clearly hates the interview process and the gotcha attitude that goes with it. I imagine it’s similar doing something like this somewhere that doesn’t feel like home, you gotta get sick of paying so much attention to speaking at half power. Easy to imagine it just makes you want to go home and relax and enjoy things your way.
Exactly. My man Joker laughing all the way to the bank in Serbia. Dominates the league and dgaf if you call him boring. What a beast
So we've now established you don't need to focus your every waking moment on the sport to be the best player in the competition. Jokic is the definition of a natural.
He wanted to be a horse jockey😂…God had other plans and made his ass 7feet tall
Basketball fans and the media are obsessed with mamba mentality and players who only talk about winning. I prefer Jokic's way.
Claiming he doesn’t care is plain wrong. He transformed his body and level of fitness to become a better player. Anyone who’s tried that knows how much commitment it takes to do so.
@@roadtripusa9433well he is paid significantly to do that xD
I like how the narrative becomes that Jokic is the one who doesnt care about basketball when we have a league full of stars like James Harden who has lived in strip clubs his whole career. Or Zion and his instagram sex buffet. Or Ja Morant using NBA as an audition for rap career. Yet somehow its Jokic that doesnt care.
It's HILARIOUS
"Pretend to be happy, FOR ME"
*sadness*
Lets unpack this a little more. He was just robbed of the mvp, called a stat padder by the mainstream media, beraded as a loser as well by the mainstream media, and you want him to be happy to communicate with them? Good on him, he dispelled the myth that you can do anything you believe in, showing that it means nothing in the grand scheme of things compared to being at home with your family. That it wasn't some hard road he had to overcome to get to the mountain top, that it isn't some prestigious thing that we fans have made it out to be; its simply a job, and he did his job. Now let the man go home.
Personally, i loved that. Why? Cause you can believe in yourself as much as you want, but if you don't work on your game, if you don't put in the effort (which he didn't need to clarify as his story reveals his hard work and effort), that you can achieve this. Its not simply belief, its much more than that. And its not the most important thing in the world.
Exactly. It's not like he didn't want it, or didn't want it more than the Heat players. It's that he prioritizes family and friends more than basketball. Which in the end are the things that really matter in life. Most players come to this realization when their careers are over, money starts to run dry and they find themselves alone.
Let's not forget the fact that when they were sweeping Lakers, Nuggets were simply ignored and each & every win barely talked about in detail - it was all about LJ.
@@WishlakeI remember the world of sports just going on about Nikola’s greatness because of the amplification of his work due to sharing the stage with LeBron.
And they train about LeBron because he’s a top 3 all time player doing something we’ve never seen before and he cares about the game we all love.
Jokic is great in every sense. He is part of his team and lead them to the victory but doesn't wan't to be part of the circus with media. He is funny enough and shared joy with his team mates. Also, he has a life outside of the game involving his family, friends and his devotion of his horses. He, after successfully finished basketball games would like to be involved in his horses race and another competition. Nothing wrong with JOKIC. Good on him!
A real victory for work-life balance tbh
Thank you! Succinctly said.
you all are crazy if you think jokic doesn't work as hard as any other star. you don't get to where he is without sacrifice, at some point he had to put in the time that others don't put in.
Don't be surprised if Jokic retires earlier than your normal MBA star. Everybody is putting the American sensibilities on happiness in this specific accomplishment. He finds the value and sharing it with his family and friends. Clearly he doesn't care about the cameras. One might say he's got his values in order.
Love that.
All time great human analysis. Too bad more people in sports can't be like Jokic.
Or maybe he’s just homesick
Or he's just lying.
@@user-ti2me2br8g Naw you would hate that.
Greg Cote is a national treasure and should be celebrated for his contributions. Show killer, nah, show saver!!
Even when Greg Cote kills the show, he's still saving it🤣
Besides, the "showkilla" position's already been filled. 👱♀️
Jokic is such a unique player and unique character for the NBA... Surprised that you Americans are so bored by him... What should he be doing? Banging Instagram models, brandishing firearms on social media, crip walking on court?
yes...yes, that is precisely what many average NBA fans expect Jokic to be doing....
He's...that...guy (womp)
Exactly. In America, if you're not a thug, a criminal, or just plain toxic...you're just not that interesting. Fuking cesspool. So glad I fled the wasteland 20 years ago.
Death, taxes, and Dan cutting off Amin before he gets to an interesting basketball convo
He has to clear a path for know-it-all Mike Ryan to give casual fan level game breakdowns. Why do they continue to allow this guy to play expert on literally every fucking subject? He's a radio producer.
Jokic needs to get his horses ready for their Sunday races lollll
Their trotters, harness racing and he's not driving. There are professional drivers.
I don`t think he hates his job, i think Jokic might dislike the massive attention from fans and the bs media talking heads.
And this is the difference between US and Europe, I'm Danish and my wife is Czech - we are more down to earth, let the drama and spectacle stay away. It's modesty and don't show off 🙌
You could’ve easily signed Dwight Howard to back Bam up. Instead…Zeller.
Jokic is one of the illest EVER and his game is beautiful! He’s an underrated clowner too! Saying Jokic’s game is “boring” is amateur hour.
As person who lived the last 6 months in Europe. I understand the Joker why he want to comeback to his motherland.
I think you might be surprised to learn most star players don’t like their job and are unhappy
first player in NBA playoff history with 1st in points, rebounds, and assists. Jokic is officially the No.1 center of all time😊
I mean he hasn’t passed Wilt, Kareem, Russel, or Kareem, and he’s on Shaq’s level right now, so I’d put him as a top five center all time easily. He’s ahead of Hakeem, Ewing, Malone, and Robinson though.
@@iBMcFly did any of those guys accomplish what he did?
@@rkymtnchi503 there are more things those guys accomplished that Jokic hasn’t accomplished…yet.
@@iBMcFly that I'll agree with. And he's got years to keep adding to his list of records. The only ones potentially out of reach are some of Wilt's individual records and Russell's rings
@@rkymtnchi503 facts
Jokic doesn't hate his job. He hates the American hypocrisy and toxicity. As an American, so do I. And like him, I left. I just never went back.
Denver showed their defensive chops in the regular season during crunch time.
Joker dosen't need to pretend to be happy for these clowns, I have been a Nugget fan for 30 years, I'm happy with winning the title and him saying the job is done, let me go home. Why should he care about the media and all their BS.
Watch him when he was wrongly called for his 5th foul in Game 4, he was intensely involved in the game and cheering for his teammates on the bench. That guy cares so much more about this team and his craft than anyone knows. He just doesn’t subscribe to the fake Hollywood type garnish that goes with this ‘show business’.
He loved the competition; the fight. He didn’t care about the ceremony; the celebration.
I'm sick of this story line. It's funny, it sells, but try to find a footage when official cameras are shut. Nikola is just a private person.
The guy in the white hat is such a Miami homer. I get it!😂😂
Not a championship winning performance? Watch Thinking Basketball breakdown of the incredible defense Denver played in that game. But on Jokic, yeah. In movies they call this guy the anti-hero. He flips the script on every single sports myth we have, above all the myth that this is something more than a game. It's actually less than a game. It's a job.
Legit greg cote needs to b preserved for all generations to enjoy
I fckn love that dude
Take a bullett for............
Zagacky
Good point Billy
Dude...no Zeller slander out here. Them boys gave more than I would ever expect. I salute those guys!
Jokic reaction in both the parade comment and the champagne are just awesome. Is the middle finger to the NBA game & the American lifestyle. Good reason for me not to spend more $$ & time on watching this league.
Jimmy wasn’t able to get to the rim whereas Duncan etc was is because they are shooters. When they had Duncan in PNR action jokic was forced to step up instead of playing in a deep drop like he did with jimmy…creating driving lanes
I watched another player wholeheartedly agree because it the stress of having your whole day geared to making it to the tip-off at 7-9 pm no matter what else is happening in your life. That BS IS WORK, playing is the fun part.
Something really important to understand Jokic. He is from Sombor. We from Sombor really love our city. But make not mistake. He also likes Denver. He has lived in Denver for 8 years and started a family in Denver. That means something.
The reason they came back down 10 pts in game 5 was because Jokic couldn’t stomach not being with his horses another day 😂
At the parade Jokić said he was happy that he stayed.
That hard network out is epic.
I don’t blame Jokic for wanting to go home after this is all over. Especially after all the garbage and the BS that have been said about his game blah blah blah! now that he shut everybody up I think he wants to go home and be around people who won’t judge him
He showed more emotion in his disappointment of not going home right away than when he won a chip
Food for thought - He made his travel plans becasue he was sure it wasnt going for 7 games
can't believe there are actually people out here blaming Butler and Spo. After they clearly ran into a bigger, more talented all around better team. After beating all expectations and reaching the Finals. God that dude sucks. AND Zeller was in the game the very same reason why Deandre Jordan was also in the effin game. You see it always in the finals or a long series. Gods.
Someone sounds hurt
@@Indy_Bendy hurt? nah I'm no heat fan guy just annoyed the hell out of me
@@rayd7964hat's "Heat Culture" Mike . Dudes delusional. Heat had a nice little run with a bunch of Role/Bench players and Jimmy . Definitely weren't winning this vs Denver or hell even LA if they had made it IMO
You have to separate the actual fan of the team from the Miami bandwagon aggro bro. Same thing with the Panthers. Actual fans are pretty happy with their run. Aggro bro who spent a thousand bucks on tickets to be part of the scene is throwing trash on the ice after Game 4.
@@rayd7964Cope.
People don't understand Slavic/Serbian Humour. It's sarcastic but it's also really dry. You cannot hate what you do and compete that hard and be the hardest worker show that much emotion DURING the game.
The word "HUMBLE" that most of the Americans dont hav
The curse for Dan's 'LeBron billboard stunt' is holding up 😅
Legend
Two wheeler races are very popular in Sombor. Jokić drives a two-wheeler.
Take the clock out of the peripherals of Greg Cote, simple fix.
Mike Ryan still in denial. Dude wrote off Denver and Joker a long time ago and simply will never admit he was wrong.
If the show collapses because of Greg Cote hitting the hard out, perhaps that suggests that the people in charge of constructing the show (in their own self-involvement and narcissism) need to make better choices instead of doing the same trick for a decade and expecting it to work as well as/be as funny as the first week.
Bam was the best player in a heat uniform in the finals and he was the problem of the team let these guys tell it
Nahhh the red skyline jerseys are the TRUTH bro. Hands down the best nuggets Jersey right now. I wish they wore them more
12:36 So now Greg is just going to run through the red light otherwise known as the hard network out. 😂😂😂
Ikr 😂😂😂😂😂😂
There is a saying “if you love your job you’ll never work a day in your life.” This is false. If you do anything with sufficient diligence, you’ll encounter aspects that are frustrating.
Jokić really wanted to finish the series, so he can go home. That's why he was so mad at timeout 😀.
HEY GUYS! ALL OF YOU FORGET THE 3 MINUTES DEFENSE EFFORTS DURING THE LAST QUARTERS OF THE GAME. IT'S DEFENSE WON CHAMPIONSHIP.
Jokic: “Spraying Champagne 🍾 is such Vaist.”
Hey Dan if you love your job good for you mate but we all don't think like you and I think must of us wouldn't want to think like you either!.They are those who don't like their jobs and still excel on them and Joker is one of them, learn how to respect other people's views the same way we respect yours.
He is happy for his team, his family happy for him. He get those massege that he is borring. So he is borred from trying to show his talent and work... When us people had that win. We just wait that man on main street and sing with him. Dear American people we have one sentence; who don't think bad thing he will sing. It about acepting them for who thay are with his problem or joy.
Mike Ryan has become the anchor to this Ship 🚢 just draggin y’all down
Stugotz's laugh underneath the comments always makes me laugh.. especially when Dan is irritated.
I can guarantee that when he's back in Sombor, surrounded by his crew, he'll be a totally different man.
I don't how many of you visited that particular region but people there live in a completely diff pace and time and era. They're not lazy but everything is chill, they'll do the job but after that just let them enjoy fishing and making goulash and nature. Very beautiful.
Greg getting "got" by the hard out was the only thing he contributed to the show. Dominique explained it so clearly, yet Greg still doesn't get it. He is a genuine show killer.
This guy experienced war in his youth. It’s clear that these guys here cannot relate to what living war at any age, let alone in ones youth does to a person. It adds focus to the essentials of life beyond the pomp and glamour.
Gotta love the Nuggets 💯
Cus of this he just became my favorite player😂
Did a mini fist pump when they got Greg Cote on the hard network out😆
Safe to assume no one from the show got on Jimmy for being nonexistent in the finals
Oh you mean Playoff Jimmy Butler who shot 27.8% from the field in must-win Game 5?
@@thomasopp9104and turned the ball over to basically seal the L.
@@thomasopp9104 imagine if this was Kobe what their rhetoric would be
@@keysersoze6506 haha facts
You don't make it as far as jokic hating basketball. I think he hates dealing with the media and things that surround the game but he loves bball and his team
He had a horse race Sunday
Zeller minutes > Foxworth minutes
Dominique had to wonder why he showed up.
Joking is just homesick.
Its the Media constantly arguing over him that he hates. He is not American so he has different values than all the look at me, talk about me Americans.
the guy in the white hat is coping hard
Horse race is the answer to all questions
The Miami Heat never ever had even a hint of a prayer of winning this series.
What’s with the Jokic slender?
In all seriousness though, now that Mike Malone won the title is he going to be fired in 2 years or 3 years? 🤔
Yes.
Hurt for jimmy and Vincent. They hit 2-4 each shots between 1-3 quarters. They win.
He was half joking half serious..Point Is IF he do let guard in publici like that it Is for joke...but Point Is evennthey earn butload cash they do sacrfice a lot of they Are for family ect .but refreshing
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Denver’s defense was great, but the Miami heat are just not a good offense team
Spo got outcoached. Jimmy Butler been choking since the Celtics series and got saved by the others who turned back into a pumpkin for the Finals.
That's why they call it a job...
1:10 😂😂😂😂😂
Bam was their best player in the series. Y’all expectations of him are weird bc it seems like y’all think he should be Anthony Davis offensively and that should’ve never been his expectation. How many games came down to Jimmy just not being able to get it done or the undrafted guys not being able to hit shots? Bam did his job.
What did Bam do against the Celtics and Bucks? Lol Jimmy carried them against Bucks when Bam was a no show
What's that song about doing your best but your best isn't good enough? Playoff Jimmy can reset next year and we will get a clearer picture on if it was his ankle or his mental state. Jokic to NBA, do better! Get me some better comp, and NBA you're league MVP can't even be measured against me.
The rest of the league is gon hate him for this
Conducting his team and manipulating defences at will while putting up unprecedented stats is extremely boring for sure. An obvious distaste for modern media mechanics or social media and being himself with the same natural plainness he executes plays on the court. The league could use a few more jokics imo
Lets be real.....he loves his job......just not cocky
Now I remember why I don't watch Dan LeBatard.
WOW, what a bunch of haters. Denver won fair and square. It wasn't Miami that lost it, be the Nuggets who pumped their D up.
And yes, Jokic is the best player in the world. and a great smart defender, even if he doesn't lead the league in blocks or steals.