{"id":182295,"date":"2025-07-13T01:01:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T23:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=182295"},"modified":"2025-07-13T01:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T23:04:59","slug":"serbian-nba-colony-grows-another-nikola-arrives-in-the-worlds-strongest-league-many-compared-him-to-jokic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/serbian-nba-colony-grows-another-nikola-arrives-in-the-worlds-strongest-league-many-compared-him-to-jokic\/","title":{"rendered":"SERBIAN NBA COLONY GROWS: Another Nikola Arrives in the World&#8217;s Strongest League, Many Compared Him to Joki\u0107!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Serbian basketball player Nikola \u0110uri\u0161i\u0107 has signed a contract with the Atlanta Hawks, the American club announced today.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0110uri\u0161i\u0107, 21, played for the College Park Skyhawks in the NBA G League during the 2024\/25 season, averaging 10.5 points, 3.5 assists, and 3.1 rebounds. The Serbian basketball player was selected as the 43rd pick by Atlanta in last year&#8217;s NBA draft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 2023\/24 season, playing for Mega in the ABA League, he averaged 15.4 points, 3.5 assists, and 2.9 rebounds. He is characterized by excellent court vision, and given his similar developmental path \u2013 arriving in the NBA from Mega in the second round of the draft \u2013 many have compared him to <strong>Nikola Joki\u0107<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Atlanta Hawks concluded their 2024\/25 season in the Eastern Conference play-in tournament of the NBA league, Tanjug reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Politika, Photo: Brett Davis \/ Imagn images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serbian basketball player Nikola \u0110uri\u0161i\u0107 has signed a contract with the Atlanta Hawks, the American club announced today. \u0110uri\u0161i\u0107, 21, played for the College Park Skyhawks in the NBA G League during the 2024\/25 season, averaging 10.5 points, 3.5 assists, and 3.1 rebounds. The Serbian basketball player was selected as the 43rd pick by Atlanta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":100000188980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1662,1489,7531],"class_list":["post-182295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-nikola-djurisic-2","tag-serbian-in-the-nba","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182300,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182295\/revisions\/182300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}