Nikola Jokic has divested from his hometown basketball team according to a report.
The Sombor-based club unceremoniously left the ABA 2 League recently and gave up their playoff spot. Jokic's brother Strahinja informed the team that he and his family's financial support would be leaving on January 19th. The coach also left the club in the wake of that news.the club was rebranded as KK Joker in 2017. Jokic started his career with the club when it was called KK SO Kos.
The whole Jokic family is involved in the project, with his father, Branislav, acting as the team's president. Nikola's brothers, Nemanja and Strahinja, are also part of the organization. Nemanja is listed as a club board member, while Strahinja is the team's general director.Stephen Douglas is a senior writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. He has worked in media since 2008 and now casts a wide net with coverage across all sports. Douglas spent more than a decade with The Big Lead and previously wrote for Uproxx and The Sporting News.
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