{"id":514862,"date":"2026-09-11T10:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=514862"},"modified":"2026-09-11T10:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:13:22","slug":"nikola-jokic-rejects-role-model-label-they-shouldnt-look-up-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nikola-jokic-rejects-role-model-label-they-shouldnt-look-up-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Jokic rejects role-model label: \u201cThey shouldn\u2019t look up to me\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1133\" data-end=\"1246\">Nikola Jokic believes family and friends have a greater influence on young people than professional athletes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1248\" data-end=\"1385\">\u201cSome people might not like it, but I don\u2019t think they should be looking up to me,\u201d the Denver Nuggets star said on the Jao Mile Podcast.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1387\" data-end=\"1565\">Jokic argued that responsibility primarily belongs to those closest to children: \u201cPeople tell me, \u2018They look up to you.\u2019 Well, they shouldn\u2019t. I didn\u2019t look up to others either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1567\" data-end=\"1783\">However, he acknowledged learning from Wilson Chandler, Jameer Nelson and Mike Miller early in his career: \u201cThey were at the gym every single day. I just copied them, and over the years you develop your own routine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola Jokic believes family and friends have a greater influence on young people than professional athletes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":504569,"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":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-514862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/07\/Nikola-Jokic.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514862","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514862"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=514862"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=514862"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=514862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}