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How Nikola Jokic’s historic supermax contract turned into a “family reunion” for the Nuggets

Nuggets general manager Calvin Booth had never been to Sombor, Serbia.

He wasn’t there when a contingent of Nuggets executives showed up, unannounced, at Nikola Jokic’s horse stables to present him with his second consecutive MVP in mid-May. Although he’d been to Serbia before, Booth had never taken the two-hour trek north from Belgrade to Jokic’s hometown.

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