South Beach loves Nikola Jokic and his brothers.
Even though Udonis Haslem and others gave some veil threats to the Jokic Brothers, it seems like nothing but love when the bros hit the streets of Miami.
They even had the bottle girls hold up an MVP sign for him. All that was missing was the sparklers.
As for the game, Jokic did what he always does. He played like an MVP and laid the smackdown on the HEAT.
The Miami Heat said 19,600 fans attended their home game Monday night.
At least two of them left happy.
Nikola Jokic — with his two brothers behind the Denver bench — returned and scored 24 points, Aaron Gordon added 20 and the Nuggets snapped their longest losing streak in nearly six years by beating the short-handed Heat 120-111 on Monday night. “That’s behind us,” Jokic said. “We need to move on to the future. We won the game and that’s the most important thing.”
It was the first meeting of the teams since the dustup between Jokic and Miami’s Markieff Morris on Nov. 8. Morris committed a hard take foul that the Nuggets felt was overzealous; Jokic responded with a shove into Morris’ back. Morris has now missed 11 games with what the Heat have described as a neck injury. Jokic said he hasn’t talked to Morris since. Heat fans booed Jokic every time he touched the ball, and the reigning MVP didn’t seem to mind.
“I played in Serbia, brother,” Jokic said.
Jokic’s brothers — Strahinja and Nemanja — got into a Twitter jousting with Markieff Morris’ twin brother, Marcus Morris. The Jokic brothers, who have drawn attention for their reactions to certain plays in the past, were in Miami for Monday’s game, seated just behind the Denver bench. “They’re coming down here because this is Miami and I know for a fact every year they’ve been able to come, non-COVID, they’ve been here,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone said. “And that’s not to cause trouble. That’s just to support their brother, which they always do.”
This is the last time the Nuggets will face the HEAT this season, so we can all move on from now and get to more partying at the club.
Flip the pages to see Jokic and his brothers living it up at the club.