Nikola Jokic's brother was in no mood to celebrate the Nuggets' comeback win over the Lakers on Monday … 'cause he straight-up punched a fan in the stands at the playoff game — and it's all on video.
According to witnesses, the violent incident went down shortly after Joker and his Denver teammates completed their 101-99 win against LeBron James and co. to go up 2-0 in the first-round series.
The clip shows Joker's older brother, Strahinja, hop over a Ball Arena seat and down a row … kicking his way through the crowd to get closer to the male spectator.
As soon as Strahinja got within arms reach, he unloaded a fierce punch with his right hand that hit the fan right in the face.
The two sides weren't done with each other after the hit, though … they continued to bark at each other as Strahinja's brother, Nemanja, followed right behind him for support.
The two-time MVP's wife, Natalija, was just feet away from Jokic's brothers throughout the altercation … holding their young daughter as she reached out to reel Strahinja back.
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ate that punch and probably gets a nice little paycheck good shit brother.
anyway what the *fuck* is that haircut
Jokic brothers are annoying as hell like just shut up and watch the game instead of constantly bringing negative attention to your brother
Don’t they got history of being violent or domestic abuse?
Nothing new from these guys. I’m surprised the person they punched was a man though
How do these guys keep getting visas?
Well, not exactly the toughest investigation ever is it
thats one huge mf too. really really dumb punching someone that much smaller than you- can range between big fine and 20 years in jail depending on where you hit them.
Thugs
Looking to fight people after you watched your brother’s team complete an epic comeback is embarrassing. League has to do something, because if that guy didn’t have a strong jaw this could’ve ended badly
I saw a comment in the clutchpoints thread point out that Jokic is not liked in Serbia, is it true? I heard he support a dictator there and promoting gambling site. Can anyone from Serbia give me some insight?
edit: Him not playing for the national team also seems to piss people there
edit: found this thread in serbia sub like 4 months ago, Bogdanovic winning Serbia player of the year over Jokic for the chip is wild
[https://np.reddit.com/r/serbia/comments/192ki0c/american_here_i_saw_a_tweet_from_a_serb_that/](https://np.reddit.com/r/serbia/comments/192ki0c/american_here_i_saw_a_tweet_from_a_serb_that/)
Pretty clear on video. He should get banned from all the arenas.
When you’re that big, hitting other ppl violently is just stupid. what if they die? then you’re in for homicide instead of just assault.
Does anybody on this team have one normal brother?
It’s not his fault, that’s just Serbian soccer hooligan culture /s
Funny how different siblings can turn out! Sure, Jokic has a bit of a temper but he is as respectful as it gets and seems like a wonderful person to be around for fans, and teammates.
Nuggets: joker, we cant allow your brothers at games anymore.
Jokic: i want out.
Nuggets: actually nvm. Punch away
Wtf going on with Denver brothers
Feel bad for Jokic. Embarrassing and dangerous behavior from his brother.
Reminds me of mahomes brother
It’s as simple as this: ban him from all stadiums. Done. Dont even tolerate it the slightest.
Edit: they > him, the one that punched
Damn, hats off to the lad that took the shot and stood his ground. That roided piece of shit should be arrested for assault and for cowardly assaulting someone half his size and mass.
Fucking thugs
They can probably get away with that in Serbia but this is America where we hold wealthy and famous people account… wait nvm.
Nikola took all the quality genetics in the family and refused to share them
This is the same guy who was arrested for choking and false imprisonment of a woman so absolutely no surprise. He’s a felon who shouldn’t be allowed in the country.
Dude ate the punch like a fucking champ
At least cheerleaders dont punch fans
Bruh they supposed to be protecting jokics wife and children, not instigating violence literally 10 feet from them
Roid rage.
Fighting over a game 💀
This is the soccer hooligan mentality that you see a lot in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. You have young men with no opportunities, no accomplishments, no common sense and no positive role model seeing things like this and they grow up thinking that being a hooligan is cool. They base their entire self worth on this and on supporting a team that they get into fights over, it makes no sense. A lot of times people grow out of this but these two never did and all they do is embarrass their brother.
Suspend Jokic for 4 games and MPJ for 6
this dude is unhinja’d
I remember them taunting Jack Nicholson during last year’s WCF. People seemed fine with it, but it seemed pretty lowlife to me.
Reminder that Jokic’s brothers are both POS thugs.
Investigation by the NBA, or the police? That seems like a pretty clear assault charge for a normal person.
What’s there to investigate? He punched a dude. That’s assault. Ban him.
Denver Nuggets Players: 🤴
Denver Nuggets Player’s Brothers: 🤤
Nba prolly gonna cover the lawsuit themselves.
His brothers got main character syndrome
Fumbled the bag. Should’ve crumpled immediately after getting hit.
What did the guy say/do? I don’t advocate for violence but there’s a line you don’t cross, even with just words.
You can tell jokic’s wife is also fucking over these two
Those dudes are unhinged, it was just a matter of time.
Absolute grotesque behavior. Jokic needs to be suspended for 5 games. Throw in MPJ too. Absolutely not related to me being a lakers fan.