Serbian basketball player

Nikola Jokić

Nikola Jokić is a Serbian professional basketball player who is a center for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "Joker", he is widely regarded as one of the greatest players and centers of all time, and is often considered the greatest draft steal in NBA history. An eight-time NBA All-Star, Jokić has been named to the All-NBA Team on seven occasions, and won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award for the 2020–21, 2021–22, and 2023–24 seasons. He represents the Serbian national team, with which he won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and a bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Born

1995

February 19

Died

Living

Era

1990s

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Key dates

1995 Born

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197 Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
356 The anti-paganism policy of Constantius II forbids the worship of pagan idols in the Roman Empire.
607 Pope Boniface III is consecrated in Rome.
1594 Having already been elected to the throne of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.

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The world in 1995

When Nikola arrived

april 19 Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, US, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of six.
april 7 First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
august 10 Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain for his testimony.
august 11 The Russell Hill subway accident in Toronto kills 3 and injures 30, due to a combination of human error and a safety system design flaw.

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Nicolaus Copernicus 1473–1543 Prussian mathematician and astronomer (died 1543) Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor 1960– second son of Elizabeth II David Bronstein 1924–2006 Ukrainian-Belarusian chess player and theoretician (born 1924) Homer Hickam 1943– American author and engineer K. Viswanath 1930–2023 Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2023) Norm O'Neill 1937– Australian cricketer and sportscaster (died 2008) Paul Krause 1942– American football player and politician Raúl Grijalva 1948–2025 United States representative from Arizona (died 2025) Reynhard Sinaga 1983– Indonesian sex offender

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