Bennett Durando is the Denver Nuggets beat writer for The Denver Post. Before moving to Colorado, where he started as The Post's Avalanche beat writer, he covered SEC football, basketball and other sports for five years: first reporting on his alma mater, Missouri, for the St.
Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets walks in the back hallway amongst a throng of fans after the NBA All-Star game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024. when the dark curtain behind Luka Doncic’s adjacent media session parted, revealing a 6-foot-11 figure. Jokic snuck up on his unsuspecting friend and poured the remnants of a water bottle down the back of Doncic’s neck.
“With all the commercials, it’s just part of the job,” Jokic said. “It’s something that goes with being a player or being famous or whatever.” James, at 39 still a dean of the sport to the extent that he had his own pregame news conference before Sunday’s game, dodged naming any specific players to succeed him when he retires .
However reluctantly, the NBA and TNT, which owns the rights to All-Star festivities, have embraced that Jokic is billboard material since then. His face was plastered on signs, marquees and video boards around the freezing city of Indianapolis this weekend. The Joker was everywhere from the airport to the Center Circle Mall. Yet his actual presence around town was kept more private than other Western Conference standouts.
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