Moments after the Denver Nuggets finished off the Miami Heat in Game 5 of the 2023 finals to clinch their first NBA championship in franchise history, Nikola Jokic—the series MVP—was itching to catch a flight to Serbia. “I have to go home,” he said. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] He did stick around the United States for a few days, attending the championship parade, where he declared, “I f–cking want to stay on parade, this is the best.” He and his teammates went to Vegas that night, and when then-Nugget Bruce Brown woke up hungover and missed his flight out of Sin City, he laid blame on the Serbian superstar.