While football fans have to ‘fast’ from games on Christmas Day, basketball fans, fortunately for them, have no such problems. Because on Christmas Day, five NBA games will traditionally be played.

Among them is the one between the Phoenix Suns and Denver Nuggets, where the guests will be looking for a second win in two days against the same opponent. In the first match played on Monday, the star of the evening was, as usual, Nikola Jokić. The Serbian basketball player scored 32 points and handed out seven assists, and Denver supporters hope that “the Joker” will repeat “at least” the same performance in Phoenix.

After the new victory, Jokić stood in front of the cameras, and American journalists, unfamiliar with or uninformed about Jokić’s Orthodox faith, asked him how difficult it was for him to play on the holidays.

Has the most expensive league in the world “gone crazy”? A player who scores about six points – a contract worth a staggering 81 million is phenomenal in the Clippers’ celebration, recorded a double-double and led them to an away win- Nothing. It’s not my Christmas. It’s just another game – he answered briefly.

However, before the aforementioned game, Jokić contradicted himself a bit. No, of course, with no bad intentions, but he was forced to accept a gift for a Christian Christmas. Namely, in a video by the YouTube profile Fresh Stats, Jokić was presented with a personalized Christmas gift, which he, with a polite smile, accepted. Apparently, it will take “a few” more years for Americans to get acquainted with his religious customs.