Nikola Jokic is ready to be a basketball player again, rather than a basketball fan (and coach). Those 16 games off with a knee injury? They weren’t as mentally refreshing as one would think. “Watching just a game, it was taking so much of my energy,” he said during his first media availability in more than a month. “I was yelling at the TV when I stayed back in Denver, and then, like, in the games (I was attending), I was so emotionally empty after the games. And then I decided the last two games, I’m just gonna try to chill and watch the game.”
“Watching just a game, it was taking so much of my …
