How Jokic & Doncic STOLE THE SHOW At The All Star Game by @Heat Check - Post Details
How Jokic & Doncic STOLE THE SHOW At The All Star Game
Support by buying my NBA T-Shirts: https://heatcheck.info/ The All Star Game was extremely boring, but thankfully Luka Doncic and Nikola Jokic gave us an actual show much better than the game. jokic made it up to the fans with that dunk, for the hilarious fake that he pulled on everybody with this. Just look at that sheepish grin. Man he’s the best. When Bam Adebayo inbounded the ball off his back and later in that possession hit the three, Joker went to the referee to complain about it. Dude wanted a technical called or what?! He was in a great mood, and this might have been the reason. Look at Doncic bargaining his way to his first points of the night. And Nikola loved it. Luka got an open dunk right here, and I guess he got hyped up so on the very next possession, he tried to get fancy with a self alley oop dunk, but ended as an epic fail. I mean, in a game where there is absolutely no defense, the points kind of lose their value, so the misses are almost more fun. Especially when they’re this outrageous. Was this a wild 2 for 1 or did Luka misread the clock? Jokic thought it was so bad that he called for Luka to be subbed out. These 2 are absolutely hysterical. Look at them acting like little kids tricking Steph Curry into getting under the basket so that Nikola would dunk on him. And you know how usually if the winner is decided, we get a few crazy dunks at the very end? Well, it was Nikola’s turn last night and… The Doncic and Jokic bromance is hilarious. Their type of humor and how well they feed off of each other is unlike anything we’ve seen in recent years. I don’t wanna make any of these 2 fan bases mad but maaan if they played together that would be priceless. So yeah, the Sunday event was almost unwatchable, but All Star Saturday was fire, and there were even some major controversies that you may have missed. So you gotta check out this video right here. Talk to you in the next one. Peace out.
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