Has always been such a lazy/uninformed take (from the people who were saying it non-facetiously).

He loves basketball, he hates the industry

How do they expect us to believe a dude that memorizes entire plays set up by teams doesn’t care about basketball 😭

Jokic would play with randoms as a teen and watches/scouts random Euroleague games for insight on his own volition. The “it’s just a job to him/he hates ball” take was always an incredibly lazy conclusion to make about him.

Which was always a stupid take, dude has always clearly cared. You don’t improve over the course of your career, as much as he has by not caring.

He doesn’t care about basketball the same way a person plays off “not really caring” about the girl they have a crush on

If he didn’t, he’d play like Ayton. The fact that he’s a MVP contender have to mean he’d put in the hard work and the emotional investment.

You don’t become the best player in the world if you don’t have a burning passion for your craft.

He loves bball. He genuinely gives zero fucks about everything of the court. It’s a 9-5 where he loves the work he does not hates the admin bullshit

I think he leaned into that too. Realistically you want to give the media/public 2 or 3 personality traits for them to base their coverage around so that you don’t have to give them your whole personality. That way it makes it easier to maintain some sort of privacy and sanity.

I wouldn’t mind if I only got questions asked about horses and being bored of basketball if it meant I could maintain my mentality for the game and for my family, even if it’s not true.

I’ve always thought Jokic was the one who made us think that not the other way around

Yup his actions on the court should always convince you. You have to have some sort of obsession with winning to be where he is rn.

I see that everywhere and for me that’s a clear sign that those people didn’t watch a game, the guy gives it all every game and is clearly passionate about it. The fact that he is more of a introvert and Hates NBA media doesn’t mean he hates basketball.

What he didn’t tell you is that he groomed his horses while watching to relieve the stress.

You can’t be as dominant as he is and not care about basketball. You can’t be the best at something that millions of people are attempting to do and just not care.

That stuff always annoyed me because it was obvious he really does care. The man just has a passion for horses as well. 

He does care, I think he just hates the Media stuff.

You don’t become the best in the NBA if you don’t care. Rudy Gay is a great example. He liked basketball but didn’t love it. He had as much talent as about anyone in the NBA coming out of college but everyone knew he just wasn’t in love with the game. He still lasted a long time though and had a solid career.

I think he doesnt care about winning.

He just hates losing.

Malone didn’t like Jokic coaching. What sort of idiot doesn’t want input from one of the best minds in the history of the game. Malone is such an egotistic dumbass lmao. Meanwhile, Adelman was like Jokic can coach however, whenever he wants IDGAF.

Except he’s actually on the team.

Except for him it’s probably way worse because he’s seeing things we aren’t seeing tenfold.

I once listened to an interview of a player that had been injured for a long period of time, and he was asked how it was watching as a non player. He said the biggest thing for him was how easy the game looked to play wato from the stands.

I imagine Jokic was feeling the exact same way

Of course. I used to play professionally some other sport.. You never feel that kind of pressure during the game.. You are focused on the play and it’s different. But once I was injured and had the watch the whole tournament from the bench.. That was nerve wrecking 

try being a parent coach. yeesh.

I think most people know that, it’s just funnier to imagine a big lazy horse guy accidentally dominating the worlds best athletes

Should’ve been 4 time MVP.

Jokic misses quite a lot of clutch free throws. He doesn’t really have room to throw stones there.

Did he do an actual bit about umamusume? I hope yes and it’s not just wishful thinking lol

It’s a shame Taco Bell still won’t sponsor the man, the whole draft itself is a perfect advertisement script.

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