“What are a couple things you’re thankful for?” — [Nikola Jokic] “Oh my God”
I get it. I just wanna go home, don’t ask me elementary school questions lol
Especially in his non-native language. Imagine going to France and being forced to answer stupid questions in French every day.
And for a holiday he probably doesn’t celebrate
Not probably, we don’t have that in here at all
It would be like if someone told that report srećna slava brate mon
Why would Serbia celebrate a holiday where Americans killed a bunch of Wampanoags?
Just tell em to pretend that the Wampanoags are Kosovars.
lol that’s dark
Dayuum
or really any of our neighbors except Romania
They were British - they eventually became American but they were a British colony.
“imagine being forced” oh you mean get paid hundreds of millions of dollars to do a job
Right. Literally written into the contract are requirements for media engagement. Jok is my favorite player but let’s not act like the journalist is asking some unreasonable question. It’s a softball relevant to the day
Yeah sign me up, oui oui merci beaucoup
Seriously. It’s not that bad and it’s not that hard of a question to answer either lol. “What are you thankful for,” isn’t even a holiday specific thing. Just say what you’re thankful for and go.
Every non-quebecois canadian has years of practice of answering stupid questions in french every day for free. I’d love to get paid for it, sounds like a dream.
If my job and multi million dollar career is in France, I’d probably try a little.
No one in France would think to ask an American how they celebrate July 14th, though.
we have Bastille day celebrations in America lol. I know for a fact Milwaukee has one, im sure a lot of other places do too.
doesn’t jokic have two kids who are presumably being raised in America, anyway? if they’re going to school and hearing friends talk about it they probably are at least curious. it’s not necessarily a national holiday in that the story of America is really told in most households. its more like valentines day or something, where the celebration mostly manifests itself in spending time with people you love and care about.
He asked what he is thankful for, not how he celebrates.
Exactly. Why are they acting as if they asked him what his plans for Thanksgiving are?
Yeah, “What’s your favorite Thanksgiving family tradition?” is stupid for obvious reasons. This is just general PR nonsense.
I get asked dumb questions every day for my job and I’m not paid millions. Some redditors are just weird and make a big deal out of banal social interactions.
Quel est ton fromage préféré? De quelle couleur est la voiture de votre tante?
I mean, if I knew French it wouldn’t be a problem. Obviously Jokic knows English very well.
How are you celebrating Bastille Day?
Beheading basketball terrorist Rudy Gobert
If I were playing professional basketball in France, I would have an answer for you.
Those stupid questions are one of the reasons why he is a multi millionaire.
I would gladly do that if it meant $500m lmao
To be fair if I’m making $400m over five years, ask me whatever the fuck you want. Stupid ass reporters = part of the job.
He can survive answer a few dumb questions… we get asked to do harder things at our mediocre jobs everyday
On one hand I agree with the concept of what you’re saying – on another, you ARE also talking about an athlete and role model that is probably going to end up having like a 800~ million dollars career earnings from just playing basketball, that is being asked a fairly simple question that takes like 6 seconds to answer.
Thats the thing about humans. Just having money doesnt make you some sort of god, we are all more or less the same. We get cranky, we get intolerant at times, but we often reflect and grow.
Thats a big issue with the whole “stick a mic after every game or moment” thing we’ve created here. We’ve gotten some great moments, the best, but with that comes the bad aswell.
Bro we all answer this question with our family every thanksgiving. It’s really that big of a deal? Just say family and teammates and move on
Of course its not a big deal. Neither his reaction is a big deal. It is just his reaction to a question he has never thought of.
So why ask? Hey guys remember that interview back in ‘25 when Jok said he was thankful for his family? Real eye opener, greatest day of my life.’
These interviews are always pointless at least ask something interesting.
For that kind of money, you can shove that mic up my ass, and I’ll still answer with a smile.
Don’t threaten me with a good time
Yeah, but at least there are equally elementary answers: My friends, my family, I’m out.
I’m with these other replies: sure it’s a basic question, but it’s a wholesome topic that is relevant for this time of year in the country he’s worked in for many years. Just say something nice.
Jokic great game tonight! What are your general thoughts on the rise and fall of the Roman Empire?
Jokic - finally some good fucking questions
Begins an hour long lecture about the central importance of horses in the army of Alaric the Visigoth.
They brought WHAT across the Pomerium?!
The ONE TRICK barbarian hordes don’t want you to know
they gotta ask my mans his thoughts on the Donations of Alexandria
This guy histories
To be fair, this question is actually relevant to his home country. Serbia was part of the Roman Empire and 18 Roman Emperor’s came from the area… Not to mention their mutual love of horse cart racing…
‘East or west?’ - Jokic
Then you really have to ask if either sharply or quickly ever really fell or did they both slowly peter out at very different times.
If you ask the Russians the East didn’t fall until Tsar Nicholas went 10ft under. Though they may have been more roman cosplaying than anything else.
I think Rome after learning about all it’s successor states makes it a fairly unique empire more so then it already was.
That said anyone who seriously argues the Roman empire fell after 560sish or 1480s is just being a hipster contrarian.
Jokic: “It was due to the failure of the aqueducts and the lack of successful irrigation practices”
i think youre mixing up your fallen empires here.
the Romans just had too much territory to cover. and instead of consolidating and focussing on the core realm they insisted on (re-)conquering shitheaps like Britannia over and over again.
agricultural collapse was more of a natural catastrophe thing or in the case of mesopotamia the result of salinization that happened over the course of centuries.
Shitheaps like Brittania?
Finally some delicious fucking r/nba content
“the home of men who are complete savages and lead a miserable existence because of the cold; and therefore, in my opinion, the northern limit of our inhabited world is to be placed there”
not my words
Whose words? Liz Truss?
LeBron when he left Cleveland for Miami.
its a quote from the greek geographer Strabo.
Baited tbh
Ehhhh I’d say the issues lie more so with the political instability a strong man general system created. It made dealing with all the crisis (3rd century crisis, dra8ghts, invasions, caligulia, crusades) almost impossible
Or was it currency debasing containing less and less gold and silver? What do you think Joker?
This is the content I come here for, enough of this basketball crap
Now we talkin’
18 Roman Emperors were born on the territory of current Serbia. The highest number after Italy.
I am not going to peel back the layers of how the Romans function from a schematic standpoint, although I am impressed with the depth of your question.
Pannonia Inferior legend Nikola Jokic
Yea, nobody’s wants to do this lame ass shit at work 😂.
Right at the end of your shift, every time, like clockwork.
Goddamit that shit sent shivers up my spine 💀
Hahah… never thought of media time in that way. Great point.
Reminds me of in my early 20s and I started a landscaping job. They wanted me to tell everyone about myself during our morning gathering before starting work, like teachers would have kids do on the first day of school or some shit. So weird.
In a fucking landscaping job? That’s ridiculous.
Yeah, I’ve worked my fair share of manual labor jobs and that’s the only one that happened at. It was really weird. Funny enough, that’s also the one where I had the most sketchy coworkers lol
But did you wear 18 pieces of Flair?
Its so weird that they try to force that in team meetings. These are conversations you would naturally have. So, why force it?
The morning meeting actually had a real purpose as far as planning the day went, it was just the “introduce yourself to the class” thing that was weird and unnecessary haha
i will volunteer for a measly 2 million a year. I’ll answer every basic bish question they have!
Yeah, I’ll answer any questions for as long as I’m required to if you’re paying me this kind of money.
This dude will have made 14k a day everyday of his life if he lives to be 80 years old. For that kind of compensation he can not be a dick all the time. These interviews are part of the job
I love my Fat Verstappen.
This guy F1s
Outdanked by RedBull
Out… danked?
flashes back to xX420_MLG_NoScopeXx videos from 2014
What’s the NBA equivalent of a S🅱️innala?
TUDU TUDU NIKOLA JOKIC
Ffs I wanted to say this ☹️😭
F1 and Basketball fan? I’m not alone 😭
There are suprisngly many of us. I see a lot of nba memes on f1 subreddit.
Sports fans like other sports, more at 7.
“There are surprisingly many people who like 2 of the most popular sports in the world”
Another fan of 2 mainstream sports with global audiences? No way!
They both just wanna get in and out of work. No bullshit 😂
FAT FAT FAT SUPER FAT FAT SUPER SUPER FAT FAT FAT SUPER FAT FAT SUPER SUPER
I’ll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Dududu Max Verstappen as a replacement for Super Max.
Horses.
Of courses. Should have been his first answer.
I still think the comparison of him winning finals mvp and him winning some horse derby thing is hilarious. I swear he loves that god damn horse more than anything. Almost feels like he hoops so he can race horses.
The basketball earnings funds the horses. I don’t think he’ll win that race if he didn’t have NBA superstar money lol
It cuts off before he delivered a heart-felt 10 minute answer about his horses.
So Jokic’s hobby is horses. Luka’s is cars. Harden’s is strip clubs. Austin Reaves’ is golf. LeBron’s are his kids.
What other NBA players have clearly identified hobbies?
Ja Morant
KDs is trolling twitter.
Kyries is doing your own research.
I think we all know what Ant’s hobby is.
Send da video
Jokic’s hobby is professional basketball.
This is me during the office thanksgiving party and my boss knows damn well that he has slave driven us the entire year but still wants us to go around the table to give thanks.
Having a office Thanksgiving party is diabolical
Sounds like Micheal Scott vibes
We just have a potluck lunch the week before and it’s my favorite work day of the year
I work at a Kroger deli. The store manager for the store I’m employed at made us cater the employee Thanksgiving meal today.
Have you said “thank you” once in this entire meeting?
Except he gets interviewed as part of his job that he makes millions and millions of dollar to do. Not quite the same
This is is an icon to people who don’t give a fuck.
He gives a fuck, but not about things these media people want him to give a fuck about.
He doesn’t gives a fuck about thanksgiving like every person outside the US
The question is annoying in general but it’s not contingent on whether or not you actually celebrate/recognize the holiday. It’s simply a straightforward life question at that point.
Gotta ask him how his horses are doing
people from the us dont know how unbelievably stupid that question sounds to an outsider, and he goes and picks jokic to ask that im dying 🤣🤣🤣
It’s unbelievably stupid to ask someone what they’re thankful for?
I’m from canada and we have our own thanksgiving.
Its a bit weird to hear “what are you grateful for” in that setting. Asking it at work is a little cynical for most people because we just wanna go home.
At home with your family and kids? Why not.
If I was playing basketball in another country I don’t think it would be weird at all for the local reporters to ask questions like this during their local holidays.
Kind of sounds like you’re just looking for something to gripe at?
I get it man I’m good at my job but I don’t want to be here. Might be a bit different if I was a 6’11 enigma but who knows? I’m 6’0 and washed.
hi CP3
I wish buddy smh
I’m sure Jokic wants to play basketball, but just because you like playing the sport doesn’t mean you enjoy the media aspect of it.
“For you Americans, it’s Thanksgiving day, for the rest of the world is just Thursday”.
For some, it’s Friday
Round Earther lie! It’s Thursday everywhere. /s
I see you Bison.
I actually took it as he meant, ‘Oh my, God. Where do I even start? Like he has many things to be thankful for. Amarite? Right???
I thought it meant that he just really loves Jesus
Not “Oh my god” but “Oh, my God.”
This whole thread is redditors who don’t actually watch basketball trying to understand a human interaction and just not getting it.
That’s how I first interpreted it, but now I’m doubting myself because of all these other comments that interpreted it differently.
It’s great that the video clip was cut off before he could (I assume) finish answering the question.
For the record I interpreted the same as you. These guys are blessed and I assume grateful for the opportunities afforded to them.
I would assume to, but OP cuts of the video purposely so you can’t tell either way
Yes, exactly.
That’s what I thought as well. Plus the clip is cut short so, did he even give an answer after the ‘oh my god’
I agree!
This guy is the face of the league for the real ones and normal jaded people above the age of 30. It’s impossible not to love this dude.
When Jokic retires the first thing he’s doing is getting out of America 😂
“What is my purpose”
“You play basketball and answer stupid questions”
“Oh my god”
“Just pull that lever when I tell you to” “Oh my god”
Bro is all of us.
Oh god, this is the equivalent of “tell me three interesting facts about you” at mandatory work training
I get that Jokic isn’t interested in media, but is this really clip-worthy lol
Like this is a pretty normal question to be made to a famous person during thanksgiving, it’s just that
Also cut off the whole clip even as a nuggets fan idk what he said after
It’s Jokic so pretty much any time he opens his mouth it gets sent to the top of the sub
Is this question made in the context of USA thanksgiving?
Noone else cares about Thanksgiving.
Only global holidays like July 4th
And Cinco de Mayo.
US Thanksgiving certainly isn’t universal (and has a dark side of being connected to oppression against Indigenous cultures).
But harvest festivals and holidays that focus on gratitude are fairly common across many cultures.
Well he lives in the US right now so that’s probably why he was asked an admittedly silly question.
since they’re in the USA, im gonna say yes
Why is it every time a interviewer ask a question and a NBA player gets pissed or doesn’t want to deal with it, y’all jump on the reporter too?
It’s a normal ass question and Jokic is being a dufus about it
“Horses, Family, my teammates” easy answer
Why would he celebrate Thanksgiving?
Even if you don’t celebrate thanksgiving you can simply answer the question
Vast majority of people who celebrate thanksgiving do not support or have any knowledge of how the holiday started. It’s a secular holiday used for people to go visit family and eat good food
Just like people who aren’t Christians celebrate Christmas
He’s Serbian so he celebrates Slava which is literally the same damn thing. You don’t have to celebrate thanksgiving to be thankful for things in life.
This is what I don’t get. Why is everyone so offended here? Just answer the question. It’s nbd. I swear the majority of this sub is just miserable
Part of the millions of dollars he makes is answering softball questions from the media. Poor guy being asked the tough questions /s.
Who asked him to celebrate Thanksgiving?
Yea a little too much glazing Jokic here. The “miserable attitude guy” isn’t THAT fun to watch
Thank you, Its wild to me people are so upset at this question
“I love stupid interview questions!”
Jokic’s response was funny but this is an absolutely generic question.
I’d get the complaints if he was asking some weird or deep question about how Jokic feels connected to an American holiday he doesn’t celebrate but he just asked what Jokic is thankful for lmao.
That’s the same frustration he got when Wemby brought a book to read in all star game
Translation: “I JUST SWEAT MY ASS OFF OUT THERE, CAN WE NOT?”
I dont get how people dont find him corny. Mans trained his whole life to be in that position and he acts like he’s held hostage and forced to be there every day lol.
Hes just an introvert. Its not that deep lol.
In Serbia people who act like Jokić are called seljačina. He is ignorant, and trashy, but since he is so fucking good, he is considered cool in US because public never seen that type of personality before.
While in Serbia he a buddy of Serbian Dictator Vučić, so everyone in the media is selling him as cool, in US as well is Serbia.
Anyone have the full interview?
You guys are insane
It was an alright question, and having to answer something isn’t anything horrible…
Bouta be me when I sit down w three stacked plates and my grandma starts asking everyone the same thing lmao, and I gotta start eating my turkey on the sly
Someone please give me the full clip 😭
Jokic is so cool and mysterious omg he hates answering questions how cool and rad of him
He’s not even American why ask this 😂
That’s why he’s pissed. Lol
Facts 😂😂😂
I would have loved if he said “horses” and dipped.
I get it but at the same time it’s an easy win by just saying “the fans”
Lmfao Jokić a national treasure
He hates the culture of this sport so much 😭
Adam Silver will fine him if he doesn’t line up for this stupid shit. Same as the coaches having to answer mid-game to the inane sideline reporters.
Same jokic same. Especially when the family wants to go around saying thanks before eating dinner like we’re not all there to scarf our faces.
Poor guy. That $276,000,000 contract is tough in this economy
I get it, but at the same time you’re getting paid tens of millions of dollars a year, and this is part of that job. Is it that hard to just say “my family and being able to make a living playing basketball” or something?
I feel like if you can’t appreciate your position as an NBA player enough to be a decent sport about some boring or repetitive questions then you’re pretty ungrateful lol
He should have said nothing
“Horses”
Those are three things!!
Def not thankful for that question
What he said: “Oh my god…”
What he thought: My horses of cou- shit, I probably shouldn’t say that one first. Oh my god, they almost got me.
Horses. Hay. Hay and horses
This dude is funny AF without even trying lmfao.
Valid response lmao.
I’m ready for the Nikola “Fuck the media” Jokic era
He should’ve said days off.
Nothin to see here just another Jokic circlejerk lmaoooo
Just say “horses” and when can all go home.
I love this man. Same reasons why I love Verstappen. Please let me do my job at an elite level and go home and be with my family.
He should of said horses.
His horses. Duh
” omg dis stooopid american holiday, yuu faahkin mahtherfahker, my fahkin horses of course”