{"id":571198,"date":"2026-03-30T17:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/571198\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:55:13","slug":"nikola-jokics-reaction-to-caitlin-clarks-praise-a-smirk-and-one-liner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/571198\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Jokic’s reaction to Caitlin Clark’s praise? A smirk and one liner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caitlin Clark<\/a> offered Nikola Jokic<\/a> high praise Sunday night, though the NBA star had a tongue-in-cheek explanation of the motive behind her comments.<\/p>\n

Clark appeared on NBC’s “Sunday Night Basketball” pregame show ahead of the Denver Nuggets<\/a> matchup with the Golden State Warriors<\/a> to give her thoughts on the game. When discussing Jokic, Clark was effusive in her praise for the star Serbian big.<\/p>\n

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“Honestly, he’s probably my favorite player to watch,” Clark said<\/a>. “And I think he’s the best player in the world.”<\/p>\n

Asked about Clark’s comments after the game, Jokic offered a simple explanation.<\/p>\n

“We have the same agent,” Jokic said with a smirk. “That’s why she said it.”<\/p>\n

Regardless, Jokic’s performance in the game lent credence to Clark’s commentary. He scored 25 points to go with 15 rebounds and eight assists as the Nuggets beat the Warriors 116-93<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark offered Nikola Jokic high praise Sunday night, though the NBA star had a tongue-in-cheek explanation of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-571198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571198","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=571198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}