{"id":510915,"date":"2026-08-20T22:49:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=510915"},"modified":"2026-08-20T22:49:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:49:05","slug":"jokic-leads-serbia-past-wembanyama-and-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jokic-leads-serbia-past-wembanyama-and-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Jokic Leads Serbia Past Wembanyama and France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola Jokic and Serbia defeated France and new captain Victor Wembanyama in a thrilling friendly at Belgrade Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Serbia prevailed 90-87, with the Denver Nuggets big man leading the hosts to victory in front of around 20,000 fans. Jokic finished with 20 points, 9 rebounds, 8 assists and 10 fouls drawn.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama provided one of the highlights of the game with a spectacular windmill dunk, but the San Antonio Spurs superstar finished with 10 points, 5 rebounds, 2 blocks and 6 turnovers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Call it WEMBY-MILL! \ud83d\udc7d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa Watch LIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hbj80LKqoi\">https:\/\/t.co\/Hbj80LKqoi<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/FIBAWC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FIBAWC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZImBFAoTLc\">pic.twitter.com\/ZImBFAoTLc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup \ud83c\udfc6 (@FIBAWC) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FIBAWC\/status\/2090512420745642109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>For Serbia, Nikola Milutinov added 15 points and 5 rebounds, while Aleksa Avramovic posted 13 points, 5 assists and 3 steals, although he also committed six turnovers. Marko Guduric contributed 9 points, 3 assists and 4 fouls drawn.<\/p>\n<p>France relied heavily on three-point shooting, but it was not enough. Sylvain Francisco finished with 13 points, 3 assists and 3 steals, while\u00a0 Amine\u00a0Noua added 14 points and 5 rebounds on 6-of-9 shooting from the field.<\/p>\n<p>The two teams will meet again in another friendly on August 22.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Srbija Francuska 90:87 kraj utakmice \" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eVsFlKyf2u4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 3-time NBA MVP scored 20 points with 9 rebounds, 8 assists and 10 fouls drawn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":510914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[369],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-510915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-teams","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/serbia-france-basketball.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510915"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=510915"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=510915"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=510915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}