>DENVER—Asked for his thoughts a week before his team’s 2023-24 opener, Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic told reporters Tuesday he was looking forward to the season ending. “I’ll be honest, I’m ready to get out there and walk away from the arena after the last game of the season,” said Jokic, adding that he believed this Nuggets squad had the potential for another deep playoff run, which would unfortunately prolong his season. “Time to get out there and waste half the year playing basketball again. I’m in great shape, which sadly means I’ll probably be healthy enough to start in all these goddamn games. It’s only October, so I don’t want to make any big predictions now, but I really think I’m going to be completely miserable by Christmas and have basically lost my entire will to live come playoff time. Let’s get this fucking thing over with.” At press time, the Nuggets front office reported Jokic had requested some sort of time-travel device that could transport him to late June 2024.
https://www.theonion.com/nikola-jokic-i-m-looking-forward-to-the-season-ending-1850926526
by IdRatherBeLurkingToo
24 Comments
[removed]
This is turning into the new Dame + Loyalty bit. i kinda like when guys care so this doesnt hit for me & its interesting a ton of dudes get shat on for “not caring” but jokic openly says it and gets praised for it lol
what a turn of events that would be if dude fucked up his basketball career getting addicted to horse gambling and shit tho damn
lmao had to save this poetry from u/21tayler10 https://i.imgur.com/xO5LjXW.png
Why does he hate basketball?
Hahaha. So many ppl are gonna read this and not look at where the article is from and get extremely butt hurt lol
His season begins with horse scouting and ends with raising the championship for the nuggets.
Honestly, it’s pretty believable until the time travel part lol.
As if Jokic would give such a long answer about basketball.
Jokic is the One Punch Man of basketball
Haha so funny Jokic doesn’t care about basketball really very cool
Freaking fat guy
Lmao ngl I fell for this for a second. Just wouldn’t be surprised if he came out and said this and I’m honestly not sure that he hasn’t already said something similar
OP your link sends us to another article btw
One of my favorite Onion headlines was “Shaq misses second half with Pulled Pork Sandwich”
Taking this oportunity to link maybe the greates NBA Onion headline ever.
https://www.theonion.com/greg-oden-on-final-four-appearance-im-happier-than-ive-1819588526
I thought the onion made jokes, not reported facts /s
Fucking had me until I got to the god damn URL lmao
I thought the Onion is supposed to make jokes
Even the onion making fun of this mf
I love this guy’s passion for the game
This is barely satire. Austin Rivers basically confirmed Joker isn’t playing basketball deep into his 30s when that’s his quality chariot years.
I’m ngl this shit getting old bro. We get it he doesn’t like basketball many players also don’t they see it as a job. Let’s move on
I read the headline, wasn’t shocked at all that he’d say that, and then realized the source lol.
I, too, am always looking forward to check out as I go to work