Jokic shockingly humbled in matchup that may decide NBA championship

Türkiye v Czechia: Group A - FIBA EuroBasket 2025 | Rokas Lukosevicius/GettyImagesSerbia cruised through its first four games of pool play in EuroBasket, but they were shockingly upended, 95-90, by Turkey. It was an outstanding battle that went back and forth all the way to the last minute, but the most notable takeaway from this game was that Alperen Sengun outduelled Nikola Jokic.

Both teams came into this matchup with 4-0 records, but now with the upset win, Turkey wins the group and secures the number one seed in the knockout round where they’ll play Sweden on Saturday.

By losing, Jokic and Serbia got the two seed and will now have a much tougher matchup in the round of 16, against…