Nikola Jokic Shares Powerful Message After Nuggets' Championship

Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic went viral for this message

While Nikola Jokic had some hilarious and seemingly uninterested reactions to the Denver Nuggets winning their first NBA Championship, he also shared a very powerful message that has been going viral over the last couple days.

"If you want to be successful, you need to be bad, then you need to be good," Jokic said. "Then when you're good, you need to fail. Then when you fail, you're going to figure it out... There is no shortcuts. It's a journey."

"If you want to be successful, you need to be bad, then you need to be good. Then when you're good, you need to fail. Then when you fail, you're going to figure it out... There is no shortcuts. It's a journey."

Nikola Jokic on the journey to an NBA titlepic.twitter.com/0jrVPAAEG1

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) June 13, 2023

This message is especially powerful coming from Jokic, because this is exactly what the journey looked like for him and the Nuggets. This was not a good team when Jokic was first drafted. Then once they became a perennial playoff team, they couldn't get over the hump. It took multiple playoff failures, heartbreaking injuries, and other obstacles for the Nuggets to finally reach this point, but they did it.

Throughout all of those ups and downs, Jokic and the Nuggets continued to improve. While many believed the Nuggets would not be able to win with Jokic as their best player, that narrative has now been completely destroyed, as analysts now discuss if any team in the NBA is equipped to dethrone Denver.

An easy team to root for, the Nuggets will certainly be back in the mix next season, and this answer from Jokic helps understand how they got here.

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