Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Football league for the 2025 NFL season<\/a>]<\/p>\nAfter his horse crossed the finish line, Joki\u0107 put his head in his hands in tears. He then hopped a fence to access the track, still in tears as he approached his horse and his jockey with his arms wide open. He then shared a hug with the jockey and gave his horse a pat on the back.<\/p>\n
The tears kept flowing as he walked with his team to the celebration circle. There, Joki\u0107 was in charge of the magnum bottle of champagne. He popped the cork, then sprayed down his team, horse included.<\/p>\n
He then proceeded to pour champagne on the heads of his team members while saving the final champagne shower for himself.<\/p>\n
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It was a display of unbridled joy.<\/p>\n
Cue up Joki\u0107’s stoic reaction in the immediate aftermath of leading the Nuggets to the NBA championship in 2023:<\/p>\n
“It’s good,” Joki\u0107 told ESPN when asked how it feels to win his first championship. “The job is done. We can go home now.”<\/p>\n
This reaction resulted in jokes about how much Joki\u0107 does or doesn’t care about basketball. Which were, of course, silly.<\/p>\n
Joki\u0107 has been the best basketball player in the world for several years running. He’s a three-time MVP and a two-time Olympic medalist in addition to being an NBA champion. Of course he cares about about basketball. A lot. One doesn’t reach his level without caring.<\/p>\n
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And he did let his guard down in the ensuing celebrations in the Nuggets locker room … :<\/p>\n
… and again during Denver’s championship parade:<\/p>\n
But it’s fair to say that Joki\u0107’s love for his horses and their racing success holds an unparalleled place in his heart.<\/p>\n
Nothing \u2014 at least in public \u2014 seems to come close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Much was made about Nikola Joki\u0107’s stoic reaction to winning the 2023 NBA championship. This is not that.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,2898,22250,459,16155,5725,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-28244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-denver-nuggets","11":"tag-horse","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-championship","14":"tag-nikola-jokic","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}