Refusing to renew the contract, goodbye to the Nuggets? It reveals that Jokic has completely shown up in the league and admitted a fact

On July 12, when the western powers were madly strengthening, a muffled thunder broke out on the Denver Plateau. According to exclusive information from US media reporter Bennett Durando, two-time MVP winner Jokic will not renew his contract with the team in advance this summer. An agreement predicted to lock in his career's largest contract of 303 million in five years was shelved by the Serbians, like a general pushing back his opponent on the board.

As the real number one player in the active league, Jokic's move is undoubtedly a showdown in the league and also putting pressure on the Nuggets management. This summer and even throughout the 2025-26 season, he will re-examine the issue of staying or leaving next summer whenever the team has any behavior that makes him feel deviated from the championship path.

In other words, in this game, Jokic has completed the initiative and will not renew his contract this year. According to the rules, he can sign a four-year maximum salary of up to 292 million US dollars next year. At the same time, you can also choose to sign a championship team naked. Therefore, what is left for the Nuggets is only a 12-month "panic countdown", reenacting the nightmare of the Bucks losing Antetokounmpo in 2023. The cruel mirror of the

Business Alliance is that the champion puzzle has long collapsed. Jokic's silence is the sharpest question to the management. When fans criticized "forgot their roots in the second round", the cracks in the locker room had already spread. The Nuggets' operations deviated from the logic of championship competition in the past two years, letting out key rotations such as Brown and Pope, and refused to trade to strengthen the fourth position. The salary space was locked by two maximum salaries of Porter Jr. and Murray. If Gordon had not made a sensation and renewal of the contract, the team's salary space would have really collapsed. After all, Denver in the small-sized market is no better than Los Angeles and New York, and the management does not have that much money to pay luxury taxes. Just as Porter Jr. said before the start of this year's playoffs, if the team fails to win the championship this year, the team may be broken up.

In fact, many years ago, Jokic had admitted to the fact that basketball is just a job and sometimes he is tired of basketball. His biggest hobby is horse racing. If one day he cannot play at a high level, he will choose to retire. He doesn't want to stay away when he can't continue to play high-level games.

It is worth mentioning that before Jokic rejected the Nuggets, there was already news that if the time was right, the Nuggets would not reject Jokic. This news instantly sparked heated discussions across the Internet as soon as it was exposed. Although the Nuggets' senior executives finally came forward to refute the rumors, saying that they would never trade Jokic to soothe the emotions of Denver fans, in this business alliance, who can guarantee that the end of the story will always be as you wish?