Shocking confession of a former teammate: Jokić was thinking about retirement

Demarcus Cousins, erstwhile 1 of the champion centers successful the NBA, revealed an absorbing communicative from the clip helium wore a Denver jersey. During the 2nd fractional of the 2021/22 season, the fashionable Boogie shared the dressing country with the three-time MVP and past heard thing that, arsenic helium says, wholly amazed him.

While a impermanent connected the Straight Game podcast, the 34-year-old American recalled a speech with a Serbian hoops player, Nikola Jokic.

"He's a unsafe guy, man. The happening that makes maine emotion Jokic truthful overmuch is his personality. If you ever speech to him, you tin archer helium doesn't springiness a damn. He doesn't springiness a damn. This is possibly his 3rd oregon 4th favourite happening successful life. All those games wherever he's putting up brainsick stats, helium astir apt doesn't privation to beryllium there. It's scary."

Shock successful the dressing room

Cousins revealed what the two-time NBA champion told him arsenic they sat adjacent to each different successful the locker room:

"I told him that his caller declaration would beryllium crazy. And helium said, 'Honestly, I mightiness discontinue earlier then'. To permission 300,000,000 connected the table? You're fucking crazy! Sign a contract, get abdominous and get bad, but don't miss retired connected that overmuch money."

As Boogie says, the halfway from Sombor conscionable shrugged his shoulders and explained that helium was much attracted to horses and bid successful the vale than NBA glamour:
"He told maine helium conscionable wanted to prevarication successful the vale with his horses. The horses volition beryllium waiting for you, spell get your money! That mode you tin bargain much horses."

After that conversation, the American continued his vocation successful Puerto Rico, Mongolia and Taiwan, portion the European champion from Sombor made NBA past - helium won a ringing and 2 much MVP titles.

Although the thought of status sounded superior astatine the time, contiguous it seems that the Serbian elephantine volition postpone it astatine slightest for a while.