{"id":87701,"date":"2025-08-22T14:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/87701\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T14:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:41:14","slug":"miami-heat-star-nikola-jovic-outshines-three-time-mvp-teammate-and-luka-doncic-in-front-of-erik-spoelstra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/87701\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Heat star Nikola Jovic outshines three-time MVP teammate and Luka Doncic in front of Erik Spoelstra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra\u2019s trip to Europe had the desired impact on Nikola Jovic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nbaanalysis.net\/tag\/erik-spoelstra\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erik Spoelstra<\/a> is showing his support for the team\u2019s European stars by paying a visit to watch them in action.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nbaanalysis.net\/tag\/miami-heat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Heat<\/a> head coach was in Sweden to watch Pelle Larsson on August 20. <a href=\"https:\/\/nbaanalysis.net\/pelle-larsson-criticized-on-swedish-tv-with-miami-heat-coach-erik-spoelstra-in-attendance-it-means-a-lot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The young talent did not have the greatest night<\/a>, missing a late shot and scoring only 13 points in a loss for his team.<\/p>\n<p>Spoelstra\u2019s trip to Serbia was a little more successful, with Spoelstra witnessing a blowout win for one of his players.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"941\" height=\"627\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2211805199-941x627.jpg\" alt=\"Longtime Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra coaching his team from the sidelines.\" class=\"wp-image-171192\" \/>Photo by Jason Miller\/Getty ImagesNikola Jovic outshines Nikola Jokic and Luka Doncic<\/p>\n<p>The game between <a href=\"https:\/\/nbaanalysis.net\/serbian-basketball-president-says-luka-doncic-vs-nikola-jokic-showdown-would-sell-100000-tickets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Serbia and Slovenia was billed as a duel<\/a> between three-time MVP Nikola Jokic, and the favorite to win this year\u2019s honor, <a href=\"https:\/\/nbaanalysis.net\/tag\/luka-doncic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luka Doncic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Instead it was Nikola Jovic of the Miami Heat who stole the show, scoring 18 points, with <a href=\"https:\/\/nbaanalysis.net\/what-happened-in-nikola-jokic-and-luka-doncics-serbia-vs-slovenia-showdown-star-scores-only-10-points-and-wins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Doncic posting 17<\/a>, and Jokic only 10.<\/p>\n<p>Serbia won 106-72, easing to the win, with Jovic leading the scoring in a game where Serbia used all 15 players.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the show to <a href=\"https:\/\/nova.rs\/sport\/kosarka\/nikola-jovic-bio-posebno-motivisan-zbog-jednog-coveka-u-publici\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Nova<\/a>, Jovic admitted that Spoelstra\u2019s attendance served as extra inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was definitely motivated, it\u2019s one of the best coaches in the world, if not the best, he\u2019s come so far to see me. I definitely wanted to show that I\u2019ve improved and that I\u2019ll be even better next season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jovic enjoying playing with Jokic<\/p>\n<p>Denver Nuggets players can testify that playing with <a href=\"https:\/\/nbaanalysis.net\/tag\/nikola-jokic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikola Jokic<\/a> makes everything easier, and that was the main takeaway for his Serbia teammate.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the final preparation game for EuroBasket, Nikola Jovic commented: \u201cA great team, we have good chemistry, I think we really have a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also spoke about his enjoyment at getting to share the court with Jokic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat can I say, a great player. It\u2019s easy to play with him, I didn\u2019t do much today, and I was always alone. With him, when you\u2019re in the right place at the right time, it\u2019s easy to score a basket and help the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spoelstra can only wish he had a Jokic to play alongside Jovic, with the franchise one of the other 29 teams dreaming of <a href=\"https:\/\/nbaanalysis.net\/espn-expert-addresses-how-miami-heat-can-pull-off-trade-for-giannis-antetokounmpo-if-he-chooses-to-play-for-them\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">landing him in free agency<\/a> in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra\u2019s trip to Europe had the desired impact on Nikola Jovic. Erik Spoelstra is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,57554,47162,7223,65416,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-87701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-erik-spoelstra","12":"tag-international-basketball","13":"tag-miami-heat","14":"tag-nikola-jovic","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}