According to the website Marca.com (a Spanish sports news outlet), Denver Nuggets star center Nikola Jokic has been pre-selected to the Serbian National Team for the second stage of the World Cup Qualifiers. H/t to Sportando for the the news.
Serbia name five NBAers in preliminary squad for FIBA WC qualifiers in September (Bogdanovic, Bjelica, Teodosic, Marjanovic and Jokic)https://t.co/EnRUV5Uau5
— Sportando (@Sportando) August 22, 2018
Now, it’s important to point out that this does NOT mean Jokic will be playing in the World Cup Qualifiers this fall.