Dimitrios Giannakopoulos who owns Panathinaikos Basketball Club in Athens, said he made a “proposal” to the Denver Nuggets to buy Nikola Jokic out of the final season of his current NBA contract and believes he can sign Jokic away next summer.
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Dimitrios Giannakopoulos, the Greek businessman who owns Panathinaikos Basketball Club in Athens, said he made a “proposal” to the Denver Nuggets to buy Nikola Jokic out of the final season of his current NBA contract and believes he can sign Jokic away next summer.
“People are going to say, ‘OK, now he’s joking,’” Giannakopoulos told the “Euro Insiders” podcast. “I did make a very serious proposal this year both to his team and to him. I got a rejection. I know that he has one more year of a contract.”
Giannakopoulos said that the Nuggets declined his offer quickly, but he made it clear that he will pursue Jokic again once he is a free agent and told the podcast hosts to call Jokic’s agent, Misko Raznatovic, and ask whether he really made a serious proposal this summer.
“It took a few seconds [for the Nuggets] to say, ‘Who? Greece? Where? What? Bye,’” Giannakopoulos said. “But let’s wait until next year.”
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Jokic, 31, will become eligible to sign a five-year, $359.5 million extension with the Nuggets in July 2027,