The Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone was waiting to hug him as well as the President of Basketball Operations Tim Connelly. “It’s amazing, my horse and I were doing a fast workout in the afternoon instead of the morning and I was wondering why,” Jokic said in an MVP interview from the stable. “I came back in the stable, and everybody was here. Actually, I saw my godfather’s car on the track and I thought, ‘what is he doing here?’