{"id":17839,"date":"2022-08-18T11:37:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T06:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=238870"},"modified":"2022-08-18T16:13:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T10:43:08","slug":"novak-djokovic-and-luka-doncics-lovely-interaction-during-slovakias-win-over-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/nba\/novak-djokovic-and-luka-doncics-lovely-interaction-during-slovakias-win-over-serbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic and Luka Doncic\u2019s lovely interaction during Slovenia\u2019s win over Serbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not that it should come as a surprise for someone like Luka Doncic, but the Mavericks player met with tennis star Novak Djokovic following Slovenia\u2019s 97-92 victory against Serbia in overtime on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No words needed \ud83d\udcaa\ud83d\udcaa\ud83d\udcaa<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/luka7doncic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@luka7doncic<\/a> & <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DjokerNole?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DjokerNole<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alesfevzer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@alesfevzer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vl2BbBHGiX\">pic.twitter.com\/vl2BbBHGiX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ko\u0161arkarska zveza SIovenije (@kzs_si) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kzs_si\/status\/1560010347372843008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That interaction came after a string of crucial plays by Doncic, who completed the contest with 34 points, six rebounds, nine assists, and a rebound that sealed the victory. Nikola Jokic, a top player for the Denver Nuggets and a two-time NBA MVP, competed against Doncic and contributed 26 points and 12 rebounds of his own.<\/p>\n<p>Slovenia will compete in two FIBA European World Cup qualification matches, with its first matchup taking place on August 25 versus Estonia. On August 28, there will be a qualifying match versus Germany.<\/p>\n<p>On September 1, Slovenia will begin group play at the FIBA EuroBasket 2022, and the German national team will retire Dirk Nowitizki\u2019s No. 14 jersey. Both events take place on the same day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a friendly game between Slovenia and Serbia, Doncic scored 34 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":38582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2599,2837,203,204],"class_list":["post-17839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-fiba","tag-luka-doncic","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-serbia"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}