Nikola Jović
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About
Serbian professional basketball power forward who has played for the Miami Heat of the NBA. He was selected as the 27th overall pick in the first round of the 2022 NBA draft and signed a multi-year rookie contract with the Heat in July of that same year. He also debuted for the Serbia national team at the 2023 FIBA World Cup qualifiers.
Before Fame
He played for Mega Basket, a Serbian basketball club before joining the ABA League.
Trivia
He was voted the best international player not playing in the NBA during the 2021-22 season. He is the first international player without U.S. college basketball experience drafted and kept by the Heat since Martin Muursepp in 1996. He has posted career updates on his nikolajovicc Instagram account, where he has 210,000 followers.
Family Life
He was born in Leicestershire, England. His father, Ilija Jović, was playing professional basketball there at the time. The family moved to Belgrade when he was nine-years-old.
Associated With
Other NBA players who started out in the ABA include Dario Saric, Bojan Bogdanovic, and Nikola Jokic.
