Serbia’s second-best basketball player had a red carpet to the rim, an opportunity to steal a series-altering rebound from Serbia’s best basketball player.
But to succeed in his heist, Bogdan Bogdanovic sensed he would need to take a different path to the ball. Around the red carpet.
He knew Nikola Jokic too well.
“I’m always trying to win against him,” the Clippers guard told The Denver Post. “That’s what you have to write.”
The play in question was a pivotal moment in Denver’s first-round series that ended up mercifully overshadowed by Aaron Gordon’s buzzer-beater 75 seconds later.