{"id":183265,"date":"2025-07-25T15:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=183265"},"modified":"2025-07-25T15:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:36:12","slug":"american-journalist-claims-nikola-jokic-and-luka-doncic-will-play-for-their-national-teams-at-eurobasket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/american-journalist-claims-nikola-jokic-and-luka-doncic-will-play-for-their-national-teams-at-eurobasket\/","title":{"rendered":"AMERICAN JOURNALIST CLAIMS: Nikola Jokic and Luka Doncic Will Play for Their National Teams at EuroBasket!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Serbia, everyone is still asking who will be on coach <strong>Svetislav Pe\u0161i\u0107&#8217;s<\/strong> roster for the upcoming European Championship, and speculation continues. As expected, the biggest buzz is around <strong>Nikola Jokic<\/strong>, the three-time NBA MVP and one of the best players of the 21st century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Serbian center has not officially announced that he will play for the national team in Latvia, but he also hasn&#8217;t, as he sometimes did for previous gatherings, stated that he would not. Speculation emerges daily, and now <strong>Ivan Sideri<\/strong>, who works for &#8220;Forbes&#8221; and covers the NBA, has written a message that has fueled Serbian expectations of seeing Jokic in the national jersey once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nikola Jokic, Luka Doncic and Giannis Antetokounmpo are participating in EuroBasket next month for their respective countries.<br><br>For any NBA fans wanting to watch high-stakes action, EuroBasket tends to always deliver.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E99ZfowbO1\">pic.twitter.com\/E99ZfowbO1<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Evan Sidery (@esidery) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/esidery\/status\/1948181908593988066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 24, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Nikola Jokic, Giannis Antetokounmpo, and Luka Doncic will play for their national teams at the upcoming European Championship,&#8221; Sideri briefly wrote alongside a promotional video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear whether American media already know something that is still being speculated about in Serbia, but we will find out very soon. 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The Serbian center has not officially announced that he will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":183266,"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":[71,249,187,250,91,113],"class_list":["post-183265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-amerika","tag-kosarka-2","tag-nba-liga","tag-nikola-jokic","tag-sport","tag-srbija","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\/183265","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\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183294,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183265\/revisions\/183294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}