“The job is done. We can go home now.” This was Nikola Jokic’s words after helping the Denver Nuggets win their maiden NBA ring. But 2 seasons passed, the Nuggets failed to display their bravery beyond the regular season (2nd and 4th seeds respectively in the 2023/24 and 24/25 seasons). But that’s not what a 3-time MVP would wish to settle for. So, after weeks of the chaotic NBA offseason, when Twitter conspiracies were cooking up wild scenarios, and Jokic was strolling Sombor stables and celebrating his horse win, there’s an update. A cryptic one, but this time, it is straight from the 30-year-old Serbian horse’s mouth.
In the NBA, silence speaks louder than Stephen A. Smith’s offensive takes. So, when NBA Twitter melted down over a Saint Tropez yacht photo featuring LeBron James and Jokić’s longtime agent, Miško Ražnatović, people figured something big was going down. Was Jokić joining LeBron in L.A.? Was Bron heading to Denver? Theories flew faster than a Jokić outlet pass. And just when speculation peaked, the Joker, true to his nature, decided to speak up. Not through an interview. Not even with a video. But a single Instagram post. Classic Jokić.’
The Serbian nation took to Instagram and dropped a photo. Serious and curious. Plastered on top were just three words: “BACK TO WORK.” That was it. No hashtags, no locations, no noise. Just a clear signal that vacation’s over and the grind’s begun. After a whirlwind summer full of horse races, delayed contract talks, and EuroBasket 2025 buzz, Jokic has locked back in. But where? The curiosity grew louder.
He’s already committed to leading Serbia after a long gap. He will join the star-studded roster featuring Bogdan Bogdanović and Vasilije Micić. For Jokic, America is the job location, and Serbia is his home. It has always been this way. Every offseason, he reboots in Serbia, reconnects with family, tunes into his horses, and then slowly ramps up toward training camp with a methodical grind that’s made him one of the most durable superstars in the league. But this time, he has a job in hand. To bring basketball glory back to his nation, and the responsibility is higher, because of “Numbers that made him Serbia’s de facto floor general.”
Serbia will start the EuroBasket 2025 with warm-up games in Limassol, Cyprus, where they’ll face Greece and Israel, and what’s interesting is that, in this tournament, two of the NBA’s biggest faces—Luka Doncic and Nikola Jokic are expected to have a face-off. But that’s one side of the cryptic IG post. What makes this land different is how it silences all the extra chatter around him, especially after that Saint-Tropez yacht photo exploded online.
The real deal behind the Saint-Tropez summit
A photograph set the basketball world ablaze: Jokic’s powerful European agent, Miško Ražnatović, posted an image from a Saint-Tropez yacht featuring himself alongside LeBron James and LeBron’s business partner, Maverick Carter. “The summer of 2025 is the perfect time to make big plans for the fall of 2026! @kingjames @mavcarter,” Ražnatović’s caption was pure gasoline on the speculative fire. Fans instantly dreamed of an impossible LeBron-Jokic superteam forming in Denver, sending social media and podcasts into a frenzy about potential league-shifting moves. The image seemed tailor-made for wild offseason narratives.
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Enter Nick Wright of the First Things First show, wielding a fire extinguisher. He emphatically shut down the LeBron-to-Denver fantasy, stating plainly, “I can report unequivocally the idea that this tweet or Instagram caption was about LeBron playing on the Denver Nuggets next year is unequivocally 100 percent false.” Wright doubled down, adding, “There is a zero percent chance LeBron is on the Nuggets a year from now. That’s not my opinion. I know that.”
His reporting shifted the focus dramatically away from player movement. So, what were they discussing on that luxurious boat? Turns out, the yacht meeting had nothing to do with LeBron teaming up with Jokic on the court. It was about business. Specifically, Maverick Carter’s ambitious plan for a $5 billion F1-style global basketball league. With Ražnatović’s deep connections across Europe, the meet-up was more of a power move than a player pitch.
And to all of this noise, Jokic’s “BACK TO WORK” stands as the perfect counterpoint. While his agent navigates high-stakes business deals on the Mediterranean, the man himself is already back in the gym, focused solely on the EuroBasket ahead. The truth behind the yacht meeting reveals parallel paths: Jokic honing his craft in Serbia, and LeBron exploring ventures far beyond the Lakers’ court. Both are working, just on vastly different blueprints.
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